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73 produkter
Dealing with Debt
International Financial Negotiations and Adjustment Bargaining
Inbunden, 2019
2521 kr
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The global debt burden has proven to be a bad bargain for developed and developing countries alike. This selection of case studies illustrates the complexity of international financial negotiations and the difficulty of reaching international agreements satisfactory to both creditors and debtors. …
Dealing with Debt
International Financial Negotiations and Adjustment Bargaining
Häftad, 2020
694 kr
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This book brings together a theoretical overview of the subject, cases describing the principal institutional actors, carefully excerpted cases of bilateral financial negotiations, and a helpful glossary of technical terms. It explores the key aspects of debtor country bargaining power.
Countering the Financing of Terrorism
Av Thomas J. Biersteker, Sue E. Eckert
Inbunden, 2007
2749 kr
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Groups committing acts of terrorism have adapted their means of financing to elude detection since the 9/11 attacks in the United States. Surveying the global community’s multi-year effort to cut off terrorist funding, this volume offers a much-needed analysis of a complex, widely discussed, yet …
Countering the Financing of Terrorism
Av Thomas J. Biersteker, Sue E. Eckert
Häftad, 2007
795 kr
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Groups committing acts of terrorism have adapted their means of financing to elude detection since the 9/11 attacks in the United States. Surveying the global community’s multi-year effort to cut off terrorist funding, this volume offers a much-needed analysis of a complex, widely discussed, yet …
International Law and International Relations
Bridging Theory and Practice
Av Thomas J. Biersteker, Peter J. Spiro m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
2315 kr
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This unique volume examines the opportunities for, and initiates work in, interdisciplinary research between the fields of international law and international relations; disciplines that have engaged little with one another since the Second World War.Written by leading experts in the fields of …
International Law and International Relations
Bridging Theory and Practice
Av Thomas J. Biersteker, Peter J. Spiro m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
691 kr
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This unique volume examines the opportunities for, and initiates work in, interdisciplinary research between the fields of international law and international relations; disciplines that have engaged little with one another since the Second World War.Written by leading experts in the fields of …
Rebordering of North America
Integration and Exclusion in a New Security Context
Av Peter Andreas, Thomas J. Biersteker
Inbunden, 2003
3027 kr
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The U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada borders are the two busiest land crossings in the world. Canada and the United States are each other's largest trading partners and Mexico is America's second largest trading partner with trade between the two nations more than tripling since the start of NAFTA. The …
Rebordering of North America
Integration and Exclusion in a New Security Context
Av Peter Andreas, Thomas J. Biersteker
Häftad, 2003
824 kr
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The U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada borders are the two busiest land crossings in the world. Canada and the United States are each other's largest trading partners and Mexico is America's second largest trading partner with trade between the two nations more than tripling since the start of NAFTA. The …
Dealing with Debt
International Financial Negotiations and Adjustment Bargaining
E-bok, 2019
814 kr
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The global debt burden has proven to be a bad bargain for developed and developing countries alike. This selection of case studies illustrates the complexity of international financial negotiations and the difficulty of reaching international agreements satisfactory to both creditors and debtors. …
Dealing with Debt
International Financial Negotiations and Adjustment Bargaining
E-bok, 2019
814 kr
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The global debt burden has proven to be a bad bargain for developed and developing countries alike. This selection of case studies illustrates the complexity of international financial negotiations and the difficulty of reaching international agreements satisfactory to both creditors and debtors. …
The Domestic Analogy and World Order Proposals
Av Hidemi Suganami, Steve Smith m. fl.
Inbunden, 1989
1791 kr
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How profitable is it for world order to transfer the legal and political principles, which sustain order within states to the domain of relations between states? This has been one of the central and most contentious questions in the study of international relations. The term 'domestic analogy' …
Formal Theories in International Relations
Av Michael Nicholson, Steve Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
569 kr
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This book, first published in 1989, gives a critical account of formal international relations theory. That formal and mathematical methods can be applied to the study of international relations is often regarded with surprise, but the author demonstrates not only how these methods give insights …
From Polaris to Trident
The Development of US Fleet Ballistic Missile Technology
Av Graham Spinardi, Steve Smith m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
1970 kr
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This book provides a complete history of the US Fleet Ballistic Missile programme from its inception in the 1950s and the development of Polaris to the deployment of Trident II in 1990. Writing in an accessible yet scholarly manner, Graham Spinardi bases his historical documentation of FBM …
American Hegemony and the Trilateral Commission
Av Stephen Gill, Steve Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
569 kr
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American Hegemony and the Trilateral Commission, first published in 1991, makes an original contribution to a subject of great interest to specialists and students of international relations and international political economy - the extent and nature of America as an international power and a …
The Power of Power Politics
From Classical Realism to Neotraditionalism
Av John A. Vasquez, Steve Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
797 kr
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In this much-expanded edition of his classic study, John Vasquez examines the power of the power politics perspective to dominate inquiry, and evaluates its ability to provide accurate explanations of the fundamental forces underlying world politics. Part I of the book reprints the original 1983 …
Simulating Sovereignty
Intervention, the State and Symbolic Exchange
Av Cynthia Weber, Steve Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
569 kr
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In Simulating Sovereignty Cynthia Weber presents a critical analysis of the concept of sovereignty. Examining the justifications for intervention offered by the Concert of Europe, President Wilson's Administration, and the Reagan-Bush administrations, she combines critical international relations …
United States Foreign Policy toward Africa
Incrementalism, Crisis and Change
Av Peter J. Schraeder, Steve Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
569 kr
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In this book Peter Schraeder offers the first comprehensive theoretical analysis of US foreign policy toward Africa in the postwar era. He argues that though we often assume that US policymakers 'speak with one voice', Washington's foreign policy is, however, derived from numerous centres of power …
Rediscoveries and Reformulations
Humanistic Methodologies for International Studies
Av Hayward R. Alker, Steve Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
631 kr
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This book provides a distinctive and rich conception of methodology within international studies. From a rereading of the works of leading Western thinkers about international studies, Hayward Alker rediscovers a 'neo-Classical' conception of international relations which is both humanistic and …
E. H. Carr and International Relations
A Duty to Lie
Av Charles Jones, Steve Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
569 kr
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E. H. Carr is widely remembered as an influential theorist of international relations. The scourge of inter-war idealists, he became the best-known Briton in a generation of predominantly American political realists. But Carr's realism differed greatly from that of his contemporaries: a vigorous …
The Restructuring of International Relations Theory
Av Mark A. Neufeld, Steve Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
569 kr
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In this book Mark Neufeld argues that the predominance of the positivist approach to the study of international politics has meant that theory committed to human emancipation remains poorly developed. He suggests that International Relations theory must move in a non-positivist direction, and takes …
The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance
Av Rodney Bruce Hall, Thomas J. Biersteker
Häftad, 2002
634 kr
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The emergence of private authority has become increasingly a feature of the post-Cold War world. In The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance, leading scholars explore the sources, practices and implications of this erosion of the power of the state. They analyse and compare actors as …
Private Power, Public Law
The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights
Av Susan K. Sell, Steve Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
634 kr
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Susan K. Sell's book shows how power in international politics is increasingly exercised by private interests rather than governments. In 1994 the WTO adopted the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which dictated to states how they should regulate the …
Deterrence Now
Av Patrick M. Morgan, Steve Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
667 kr
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Patrick Morgan's authoritative study revisits the place of deterrence after the Cold War. By assessing and questioning the state of modern deterrence theory, particularly under conditions of nuclear proliferation, Morgan argues that there are basic flaws in the design of the theory that ultimately …
European Conquest and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The Moral Backwardness of International Society
Av Paul Keal, Paul Keal m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
569 kr
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Paul Keal examines the historical role of international law and political theory in justifying the dispossession of indigenous peoples as part of the expansion of international society. He argues that, paradoxically, law and political theory can now underpin the recovery of indigenous rights. At …
Institutions for the Common Good
International Protection Regimes in International Society
Av Bruce Cronin, Steve Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
422 kr
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The protection of domestic populations by international institutions is both an anomaly and an enduring practice in international relations. It is an anomaly because in a system of sovereign states, the welfare of individuals and groups falls outside traditional definitions of state interest. Yet …
Political Realism in International Theory
Av Roger D. Spegele, Steve Smith m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1481 kr
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In this 1996 book Roger Spegele argues that in the past international theorists have failed to recognise that there is not one conception of international relations, subdivided into different theories and approaches, but at least three wholly different conceptions of the subject. Though scholars …
Political Realism in International Theory
Av Roger D. Spegele, Steve Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
569 kr
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In this 1996 book Roger Spegele argues that in the past international theorists have failed to recognise that there is not one conception of international relations, subdivided into different theories and approaches, but at least three wholly different conceptions of the subject. Though scholars …
Arms and the State
Patterns of Military Production and Trade
Av Keith Krause, Steve Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
557 kr
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This book analyses the structure and motive forces that shape the global arms transfer and production system. The author distinguishes three tiers of arms producers, defined by such factors as defence production base, military research and development capabilities, and dependence upon arms exports. …
Justice and the Genesis of War
Av David A. Welch, Steve Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
667 kr
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Studies of the causes of wars generally presuppose a 'realist' account of motivation: when statesmen choose to wage war, they do so for purposes of self-preservation or self-aggrandizement. In this book, however, David Welch argues that humans are motivated by normative concerns, the pursuit of …
State Sovereignty as Social Construct
Av Thomas J. Biersteker, Cynthia Weber
Inbunden, 1996
1775 kr
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State sovereignty is an inherently social construct. The modern state system is not based on some timeless principle of sovereignty, but on the production of a normative conception which links authority, territory, population (society, nation), and recognition in a unique way, and in a particular …
