Studies in International Relations
Organizing the World: The United States and Regional Cooperation in Asia and Europe
1st Edition
By Galia Press-Barnathan
July 27, 2016
This book offers a conceptual framework that explains when and why a great power would choose to cooperate with smaller states via regional cooperation forums rather than in a bilateral setting....
Human Rights in Cuba, El Salvador and Nicaragua: A Sociological Perspective on Human Rights Abuse
1st Edition
By Mayra Gomez
July 21, 2016
This book presents a historical perspective on patterns of human rights abuse in Cuba, El Salvador and Nicaragua and incorporates international relations in to the traditional theories of state repression found within the social sciences....
The Common Fisheries Policy in the European Union: A Study in Integrative and Distributive Bargaining
1st Edition
By Eugénia da Condeição-Heldt
November 14, 2012
The purpose of this book is neither to duplicate overviews of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) nor to recapitulate narrative treatments of the European integration process. The aim is to comprehend how EU negotiations work theoretically and empirically so that a conceptual framework for analyzing ...
Malaysia and the Development Process: Globalization, Knowledge Transfers and Postcolonial Dilemmas
1st Edition
By Vanessa C.M. Chio
October 29, 2012
Drawing on recent deconstructions in anthropology, postcolonial studies, and critical sociology, Malaysia and the Development Process situates and explores the phenomenon of international knowledge transfers within the context of globalization. Based on primary and secondary research, and a series ...
Human Rights Treaties: Considering Patterns of Participation, 1948-2000
1st Edition
By Mark Sachleben
June 28, 2012
The book examines patterns of participation in human rights treaties. International relations theory is divided on what motivates states to participate in treaties, specifically human rights treaties. Instead of examining the specific motivations, this dissertation examines patterns of ...
Domestic Politics and International Narcotics Control: U.S. Relations with Mexico and Colombia, 1989-2000
1st Edition
By Victor J. Hinojosa
May 04, 2012
This book examines different levels of narcotics control cooperation between the United States, Mexico and Colombia. Victor J. Hinojosa finds that Mexico is consistently held to a very different standard than Colombia and that the US often satisfies domestic political pressures to be tough on ...
Intervention, Ethnic Conflict and State-Building in Iraq: A Paradigm for the Post-Colonial State
1st Edition
By Michael Rear
February 27, 2012
External intervention by the U.N. and other actors in ethnic conflicts has interfered with the state-building process in post-colonial states. Rear examines the 1991 uprisings in Iraq and demonstrates how this intervention has contributed to the problems with democratization experienced in the ...
Negotiating the Arctic: The Construction of an International Region
1st Edition
By E.C.H Keskitalo
December 09, 2011
This work draws upon the history of Arctic development and the view of the Arctic in different states to explain how such a discourse has manifested itself in current broader cooperation across eight statistics analysis based on organization developments from the late 1970s to the present, shows ...
A Global Union for Global Workers: Collective Bargaining and Regulatory Politics in Maritime Shipping
1st Edition
By Nathan Lillie
June 18, 2010
This is a book about how global unionism was born in the maritime shipping sector. It argues that the industrial structure of shipping, and specifically the interconnected nature of shipping production chains, facilitated the globalization of union bargaining strategy, and the transnationalization ...
International Election Monitoring, Sovereignty, and the Western Hemisphere: The Emergence of an International Norm
1st Edition
By Arturo Santa-Cruz
June 09, 2010
This book traces the process by which national elections became international events or, more precisely, what the effects of this process are on state sovereignty. Contrary to the conventional wisdom in International Relations - to judge by the neglect of this phenomenon in the literature - this ...
Peacekeeping in the Middle East as an International Regime
1st Edition
By Kenneth Dombroski
March 18, 2010
This book investigates whether an international institution can alter state behaviour and thereby contribute to the peaceful resolution of a conflict. Kenneth Dombroski focuses on the series of interrelated peacekeeping efforts undertaken to help resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict from 1948-1994. ...
Political Corruption in the Caribbean Basin: Constructing a Theory to Combat Corruption
1st Edition
By Michael W. Collier
June 09, 2009
Political corruption in the Caribbean Basin retards state economic growth and development, undermines government legitimacy, and threatens state security. In spite of recent anti-corruption efforts of intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations (IGO/NGOs), Caribbean political corruption ...