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  • Understanding Global Governance

    Arrangements, Institutions and Organizations

    Series series Understanding series
    This insightful book examines the evolution of institutions and governance across the globe. Kendall Stiles claims that the majority of political rules, principles and institutions have and continue to be established to fulfill the aims of the great powers of the day.Chapters assess how rule creation and rule enforcement are informed by great power politics and power transitions across key time ... Read more

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  • Supplanting Empires

    Power Transitions Across Human History

    What happens when one empire or hegemon cedes the global stage to a rising power? Supplanting Empires: Power Transitions Across Human History argues that, historically, such power transitions tend to be relatively smooth, resulting in the preservation of the status quo with respect to the global order and institutions. This stems from the tendency of rising powers to be closely associated with ... Read more

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  • Trust and Hedging in International Relations

    Do states trust each other? What are the political and ethical implications of trust? Drawing from a wide range of disciplines, Trust and Hedging in International Relations adds to the emerging literature on trust in international relations by offering a systematic measure of state-to-state trust. Looking at how relationships between European microstates and their partners have evolved over the ... Read more

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  • The Domestic Sources of International Institutions

    Making up the Rules

    Series series Global Governance and International Organizations
    This book explores a new way of thinking about diplomacy, warfare, trade, and collective goods that begins with the notion that key international actors project their domestic institutions onto the regional or global arena. Exploring the emergence, consolidation, and decay of international norms, the author puts forward a general argument designed to identify patterns across time and space, ... Read more

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  • State Responses to International Law

    Series series Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    Do countries keep their promises to the international community? When they sign treaties or learn about new expectations, do they take them seriously and implement them? Since we already know intuitively that not all countries do, the next question – and the topic of this book – is: who complies? By considering a wide range of different rules – each precise enough to allow one to measure state ... Read more

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  • Negotiating Debt

    The Imf Lending Process

    This book aims to develop and test a model of International Monetary Fund (IMF) decision-making that will offer a better understanding of how the IMF applies its lending terms to individual countries such as Jamaica, Zaire, Sudan, India, United Kingdom, Turkey and Argentina. ... Read more

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  • The Poverty of Corrupt Nations

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  • Reinventing Europe

    The History of the European Union, 1945 to the Present

    Reinventing Europe provides a thorough exploration of the history of the European Union, tracing its development from inception to recent times. It is the first book of its kind to contextualize the history of the EU within the wider frames of European and global history. The volume also breaks new ground by successfully highlighting the roles individuals, member states, transnational actors and ... Read more

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  • Why Nations Fail

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