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This book represents one of the first comparative studies of international treaty ratification processes in multiple issue areas. The study sets out to fill a gap in political science scholarship by investigating the role that international and domestic political actors...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-11-20
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Drawing on the Latin American political economy, this book brings to the fore empirical questions on different patterns of involvement of IFIs in pursuing politically-sensitive reforms, the capacity of local actors to influence outcomes, the context in which they...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-11-12
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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This book seeks to provide the most comprehensive and sustained engagement and critique of neo-Gramscian analyses available in the literature. In examining neo-Gramscian analyses in IR/IPE, the book engages with two fundamental concerns in international relations: (i)...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-11-10
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This edited volume seeks to provide a critical and technical look at international political economic indices (PEIs). It examines measurement issues, relates PEIs to economic theory, and suggests better measures than those currently used.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-11-10
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Covering the period from the 1920s, when international tax policy was solely about avoiding double taxation, to the present era of international tax competition, Rixen investigates the fate of 'the power to tax' in an era of globalization, illustrating that tax...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-11-03
Collection :
Transformations of the State
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With the launch of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, its Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) emerged as a symbol of coercion in international economic relations. In the decade that followed, intellectual property became...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-10-30
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In this edited volume, distinguished scholars and policy analysts explore how China's rise has brought great opportunities for cooperation as well as great challenges for geo-political competition between the United States and China.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-10-27
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Post-conflict reconstruction stretches the capacities of international institutions and they turn to NGOs to answer the challenge. This book explores how the interactions between international public institutions and NGOs have affected peacebuilding in the post-conflict...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-10-27
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A study of the actors and institutions that shaped decision-making on privatization in the Russian oil industry between 1992 and 2006. The book analyses the origins of privatization as a policy on a macro, industry-wide level, as well as presenting three in-depth case...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-10-24
Collection :
St Antony's Series
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Much more than a simple examination of EU-Asia relations, this book examines the idea that the EU may constitute a 'model' for East Asian regionalism. It challenges specialists on the EU to understand the EU's impact on Asia and Asia's impact on the EU whilst...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-10-23
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
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This book examines the intersections between international law and national policies, and nuclear proliferation and disarmament, offering a way out if policy makers of leading countries can summon the vision and political will to move away from the nuclear precipice...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-10-13
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Through analyzing recent change within six industries this book develops a resolutely interdisciplinary approach to studying globalization. By combining questions and methodologies from institutionalist economics and political science, it proposes a generalizable model...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-10-13
Collection :
Globalization and Governance
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This edited volume puts forth a theoretically and empirically rigorous analysis of Japanese foreign policy. Nine case studies on Japan's security, economic, and environmental policies in this volume examine how norms do or do not guide Japanese foreign policy and how...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-10-13
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When should the international community intervene to prevent suffering within sovereign states? This book argues that since Kosovo, the normative thesis has failed to influence international politics, as evidenced by events in Iraq and Darfur. This critique rejects...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-10-09
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Assesses the stability of the Chinese economy and the nature of its economic governance. Svenja Schlichting examines how internationalization has impacted on financial market development in China and how far this has contributed to the development of new institutions...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-10-01
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The book provides new insight into the role of organised business interests. It supports the concept of political economy and demonstrates how it transcends the limitations of CPE or IPE, to form a coherent whole.The book maps the conflict, convergence and influence of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-10-01
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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This book, some 20 years after the publication of Robert W. Cox's seminal Production, Power and World Order: Social Forces in the Making of History , offers the reader an analytical and comprehensive overview of his work and illustrates the continuing relevance thereof...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-10-01
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Using two milestones in the Dutch and German political economies - Wassenaar and Alliance for Jobs respectively - this book argues that Antonio Gramsci's 'common sense' provides us with the conceptual apparatus necessary for analysing the integral role played by culture...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-09-11
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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In this book some of the world's leading academic experts on American-European relations provide the most up to date presentations of the topic available today. The Iraq War represented a most serious challenge to American-European relations. Some of the contributors...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-08-28
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A pressing question at the forefront of current global political debates is: how can we salvage the democratic project in the context of 'globalization'? In recent years political activists have mounted high-profile campaigns for the democratization of powerful...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-08-07
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