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Aftermath of World War II
Algeria
Algerian War
Anti-Americanism
ANZUS
Arbitration
Audience cost
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Bandwagoning
Bargaining power
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Cold War
Collective security
Colonialism
Complete contract
Contract
Currency union
Decolonization
Defection
Devolution
Dominion
Economic integration
Embargo
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European integration
Externality
Framework agreement
Free trade
Global governance
Governance
Great power
Hold-up problem
Imperialism
Incomplete contracts
Informal empire
Information asymmetry
Institution
International relations
John Mearsheimer
Judicial activism
Konrad Adenauer
Legislation
Liberalization
Member state
Metropole
Nationalization
Neofunctionalism
Neoliberalism
North American Free Trade Agreement
Palestinian National Authority
Police action
Political alliance
Quid Pro Quo
Regional integration
Regional organization
Right to property
Security studies
Separatism
Sovereignty
Soviet Empire
Supranational union
Territorial integrity
The Way Forward
Trade barrier
Trade war
Treaty
Vertical integration
Veto
War
Warfare
Washington Naval Treaty
Westphalian sovereignty
World Trade Organization
Product details
- ISBN 9780691137247
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 10 May 2009
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Increasingly today nation-states are entering into agreements that involve the sharing or surrendering of parts of their sovereign powers and often leave the cession of authority incomplete or vague. But until now, we have known surprisingly little about how international actors design and implement these mixed-sovereignty arrangements. Contracting States uses the concept of "incomplete contracts"--agreements that are intentionally ambiguous and subject to future renegotiation--to explain how states divide and transfer their sovereign territory and functions, and demonstrate why some of these arrangements offer stable and lasting solutions while others ultimately collapse. Building on important advances in economics and law, Alexander Cooley and Hendrik Spruyt develop a highly original, interdisciplinary approach and apply it to a broad range of cases involving international sovereign political integration and disintegration. The authors reveal the importance of incomplete contracting in the decolonization of territories once held by Europe and the Soviet Union; U.S. overseas military basing agreements with host countries; and in regional economic-integration agreements such as the European Union.
Cooley and Spruyt examine contemporary problems such as the Arab-Israeli dispute over water resources, and show why the international community inadequately prepared for Kosovo's independence. Contracting States provides guidance to international policymakers about how states with equally legitimate claims on the same territory or asset can create flexible, durable solutions and avoid violent conflict.
Alexander Cooley is associate professor of political science at Barnard College, Columbia University. His books include "Base Politics and Logics of Hierarchy". Hendrik Spruyt is the Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations at Northwestern University. His books include "Ending Empire" and "The Sovereign State and Its Competitors" (Princeton).
