Cooley / Spruyt Contracting States

Sovereign Transfers in International Relations
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3065-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooley, Alexander

Spruyt, Hendrik

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Außenpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables ix

Preface xi

Chapter 1. Incomplete Sovereignty and International Relations 1

Chapter 2. A Theory of Incomplete Contracting and State Sovereignty 19

Chapter 3. Severing the Ties That Bind: Sovereign Transfers

in the Shadow of Empire 48

Appendix 3.1. Overseas Basing Deployments of France and Britain since 1970 97

Chapter 4. Incomplete Contracting and the Politics of U.S. Overseas Basing Agreements 100

Chapter 5. Incomplete Contracting and Modalities of Regional Integration 142

Chapter 6. Further Applications and Conclusions 186

Bibliography 207

Index 225

Über Autor(innen)

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).