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This study examines the role of international courts and tribunals (ICTs) as important agents for the peaceful settlement of international disputes through the instrumentality of law. The rapid upswing in the number of specialised international courts and tribunals (in areas such as trade, human rights, law of the sea, criminal justice and environment) can be perceived as an attempt by sovereign States to maintain the viability of ICTs in light of perplexity in international relations, growing recognition of peaceful co-existence, quest for institutionalised cooperation and emergence of some of the "common concerns of humankind", as well as the "duty to cooperate". The article has sought to make sense of the emergence of ICTs as the "New Environmental Sentinels" and what it portends for our common future. Do we need a specialised international environmental court?

In anthropology, the concept of cultural intimacy expresses those aspects of a cultural identity that are considered a source of international criticism for the state, but are nevertheless used to provide insiders with a sense of national comfort, understanding, and self-reflexive, ontological security. Cultural intimacy helps illuminate how states present themselves internationally and how they understand themselves domestically. It can also explain the seeming discrepancies and contradictions between a state's domestic and international identities. Cultural intimacy, in other words, explains the mutual reproduction of different levels of identity. Using the concept of cultural intimacy as a departure point, this article develops a framework for understanding incongruities in the domestic and international facades of state identity. We argue that there is a structural component to the level of discomfort caused by negative international appraisals of a given state. Structural position determines whether the domestic sources of cultural intimacy will cause shame, embarrassment, or guilt, and therefore also indicate how that negative international image will be handled by the state. The theoretical argument is illustrated with reference to the cases of Serbia, Croatia, and the Netherlands, and their distinctive responses to the Balkan conflict of the 1990s. [Reprinted by permission; copyright Sage Publications Ltd. & ECPR-European Consortium for Political Research.]

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER ONE: The Role of International Order in U.S. Strategy -- Risks to the Current Order -- Roadmap and Methodology -- CHAPTER TWO: Defining the International Order -- The Post-World War II, Rules-Based Liberal Order -- The Order's Purposes and Its Effects -- Conclusion and Policy Implications -- CHAPTER THREE: Engines of International Order -- Rational Pursuit of Common Interests -- Interests of a Hegemonic Power -- Domestic Politics -- Socialization and Constructed Identities -- Systemic Effects -- Conclusion and Policy Implications -- CHAPTER FOUR: U.S. Approach to the International Order -- U.S. Visions of the International Order -- The International Order in U.S. National Security Strategy Documents -- U.S. Interests and Approaches to the International Order -- Conclusion and Policy Implications -- CHAPTER FIVE: Implications for a Research Agenda -- References

Presents a debate on political bias among social scientists, particularly as it affects the teaching of undergraduates. Following a general overview of the problem by Robert A. Denemark on behalf of the editors of this journal, David N. Gibbs offers Social Science as Propaganda? International Relations and the Question of Political Bias, in which he criticizes the continuing political bias in mainstream US scholarship for its endorsement (both subtle & overt) of the dominant political ideology & norms. As illustration, the example is offered of how scholars have depicted covert operations practiced by the US military & intelligence services & agencies in Iran, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, & Cuba. In Farewell to "Old Thinking": A Reply to Gibbs, Robert S. Snyder responds to Gibbs's criticisms of his article, "The U.S. and Third World Revolutionary States: Understanding the Breakdown in Relations" (1999). Gibbs's charges of bias in international relations studies, particularly those of US foreign policy, are challenged as overly dogmatic, radical, & structuralist. 85 References. K. Hyatt Stewart