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Contracting states: sovereign transfers in international relations

2009 Princeton University Press ;ISBN: 9780691137247 ;ISBN: 0691137242 ;ISBN: 1400830656 ;ISBN: 9781400830657 ;ISBN: 0691137234 ;ISBN: 9780691137230 ;EISBN: 1400830656 ;EISBN: 9781400830657 ;DOI: 10.1515/9781400830657 ;OCLC: 664572280 ;LCCallNum: JZ4034

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    Contracting states: sovereign transfers in international relations
  • Author: Cooley, Alexander ; Spruyt, Hendrik
  • Subjects: Armed Forces ; Decolonization ; Foreign countries ; France ; Independence ; International Conflict ; International cooperation ; International Relations ; JPS ; JPSN2 ; LBBC ; Military bases ; Military bases, American ; Military bases, British ; Political Integration ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Regionalism ; Regionalism (International organization) ; Sovereignty ; Treaties
  • Description: 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 Statesuses 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 Statesprovides 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.
  • Publisher: Princeton: Princeton University Press
  • Creation Date: 2009
  • Format: 249
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780691137247
    ISBN: 0691137242
    ISBN: 1400830656
    ISBN: 9781400830657
    ISBN: 0691137234
    ISBN: 9780691137230
    EISBN: 1400830656
    EISBN: 9781400830657
    DOI: 10.1515/9781400830657
    OCLC: 664572280
    LCCallNum: JZ4034
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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