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Analyzing the rationale for climate policy, one utility category is often neglected: secondary benefits. This is surprising because the consideration of secondary benefits would increase the attractiveness of climate policies from a national point of view. It would however also affect the behavior of states in international negotiations on climate protection. On the basis of a chicken game, it is argued in this article that secondary benefits support national incentives to behave cooperatively. International cooperation in climate policies thus becomes more probable.

Institutional theory has been used increasingly by international business and management researchers to explain the behavior and strategies of multinational enterprises. If early international business research was dominated by the application of transaction cost and neoclassical economics, reviews of recent publications and conference programs suggest that the past decade has been dominated by the application of institutional theory. The 2012 volume of the "Advances in International Management" series represents the collection of an eclectic mix of contemporary research by leading and emerging scholars working on institutional theory. The contributions present new theoretical frameworks of institutions and propose interesting ideas that will provide the foundation for doctoral dissertations and research projects

The studies collected in this volume embody the results of research conducted in the mid 1950s into various theoretical problems in international economics. They fall into three groups - comparative cost theory, trade and growth and balance of payments theory. This volume consolidates the work of previous theorists and applies mathematically-based logical analysis to theoretical problems of economic policy

Peace processes and international order are interdependent: while the latter provides the normative framework for the former, peacemaking tools and their underlying ideology also maintain international order. They indicate its viability and legitimacy partly by meeting local claims as well as though the maintenance of geopolitical balances. In the emerging multipolar order, the international peace architecture (IPA), dominated by the liberal international order (LIO), is contested through counter-peace processes. These processes contest the nature of the state, state-society relations and increasingly international order itself. This paper investigates the tactics and strategies of regional actors and great powers, where they engage in peace and order related activities or interventions. Given the weakness and inconsistency of the IPA and the LIO, such contestation leads to challenges to international order itself, often at the expense of the claims of social movements and civil society networks.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I PROGRESS AND THE COMMONWEALTH OF LIFE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 DUTIES BEYOND BORDERS -- CHAPTER 2 DUTIES BEYOND THE PRESENT AND BEYOND PERSONS -- PART II FIDUCIARY INSTITUTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 3 STEWARDSHIP ECONOMICS -- CHAPTER 4 GOVERNMENT AS TRUSTEE -- CHAPTER 5 CIVIL SOCIETY AND COMMONWEALTH OF THE LIFE -- PART III TRANSPARENT SOVEREIGNTY -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 6 GLOBAL ETHICS AND FIDUCIARY STATES -- CHAPTER 7 THE NATION AND THE WORLD -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- APPENDIX: INDICES OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL DISRUPTIONS DUE TO HUMAN ACTIVITIES -- INDEX