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Contracting States : Sovereign Transfers in International Relations / Hendrik Spruyt, Alexander Cooley.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (280 p.) : 4 line illus. 7 tablesContent type:
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  • 9780691137247
  • 9781400830657
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 355.7
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Incomplete Sovereignty and International Relations -- Chapter 2. A Theory of Incomplete Contracting and State Sovereignty -- Chapter 3. Severing the Ties That Bind: Sovereign Transfers in the Shadow of Empire -- Chapter 4. Incomplete Contracting and the Politics of U.S. Overseas Basing Agreements -- Chapter 5. Incomplete Contracting and Modalities of Regional Integration -- Chapter 6. Further Applications and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Incomplete Sovereignty and International Relations -- Chapter 2. A Theory of Incomplete Contracting and State Sovereignty -- Chapter 3. Severing the Ties That Bind: Sovereign Transfers in the Shadow of Empire -- Chapter 4. Incomplete Contracting and the Politics of U.S. Overseas Basing Agreements -- Chapter 5. Incomplete Contracting and Modalities of Regional Integration -- Chapter 6. Further Applications and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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