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Making credible commitments is a formidable problem for states in the anarchic international system. A long-standing view holds that this is particularly true for democratic states in which changeable public preferences make it difficult for leaders to sustain commitments over time. However, a number of important elements in the values and institutions that have characterized the liberal democratic states should enhance their ability to sustain international commitments. Indeed, an examination of the durability of international military alliances confirms that those between democratic states have endured longer than either alliances between nondemocracies or alliances between democracies and nondemocracies.

Abstract
Feminist social theories, especially intersectional and decolonial ones, have been footnotes at best in practice-oriented research in international relations. This disciplinary exclusion of gender studies' concepts from "international practice theories" (IPTs) or the "practice turn" has marginalized inquiries into power and reflexivity in action. As a result, IPTs have failed to theorize how practitioners' reflexivity is shaped by local manifestations of systemic lines of difference like race, gender, coloniality, or class. This Theory Note argues that intersectional and decolonial feminist approaches can address this gap. We demonstrate that positionality and privilege condition practical reflexivity by shaping (1) normative interpretations of the world, (2) the content of social critique, and (3) the reception of such critique. Taking feminists as foundational theorists of international practices is critical to addressing some ontological challenges encountered by current IPT scholarship. In this Theory Note, we develop a productive conversation between the two bodies of literature around concepts of background knowledge and competence, which allows for a better understanding of the interplay of structural power and individual reflexivity in everyday interactions.

This paper reflects on relations between geopolitics and international accounting standard setting in the context of a commonly noted 'return of geopolitics'. By discussing how selected episodes of the international political setting have impinged on the work of the IASC and the IASB, I attempt to demonstrate that geopolitics is a relevant angle on international accounting standard setting even though many aspects of IFRS can be adequately understood without references to geopolitics. I propose a simple framework to distinguish between symbolical and substantial relations between geopolitics and international accounting standard setting, as well as technical aspects where such a relation is absent. I call for further development of the conceptual toolbox required to analyze the relationship between international accounting standard setting and geopolitics, as well as for more empirical work on the historical and current configurations of this relationship.

Dieser Beitrag stellt die nationale Diskussion um die Frage "Herrschaft der Verbände?" in den internationalen Forschungskontext und macht deutlich, daß die alternativen Einschätzungen der Verbände (Gefährdung der Regierbarkeit versus Stütze gesellschaftlicher Ordnung) der Wirklichkeit nicht gerecht werden. Aufgezeigt wird, daß manche Länder wirtschafts- und sozialpolitisch erfolgreicher bzw. erfolgloser sind als dies aufgrund ihrer ökonomischen Anfangsbedingungen zu erwarten wäre. Zurückgeführt werden diese Abweichungen auf Unterschiede im Verbändesystem. Drei Komponenten sind es vor allem, die die Regierbarkeit von Gesellschaften entscheidend beeinflussen: Die Organisationsstruktur der Verbände, ihr Verhältnis zu den politischen Parteien und die Art ihrer Einbindung in die staatliche Willensbildung. (GF2)