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French, Swiss, & Swedish international relations scholars present critical analyses of the US-based neorealist international relations & regime theory for explaining transnationalism, multilaterlism & international organizations (IOs). Dissatisfied with regime theory's realist assumptions & methodological individualism, each advances alternative sociologically oriented approaches. US regime theorists then respond to these critiques. In Some Thoughts on International Organizations and Theories of Regulation, Marie-Claude Smouts suggests a regulation theory perspective for understanding shifts in conventional roles & objectives of the IO. The IO of the future will directly regulate social, economic, & political problems, thereby integrating domestic & international political economy. In Regime Theory and the Study of International Organizations, Pierre de Senarclens reviews a sociological framework for studying the regime that accounts fully for the IO's various functions. Noting regime theory's downplaying of coercive & conflictual power relations & the misguided explanations of hegemonic stability theory for the creation of regimes, analysis also suggests that US scholarship is biased by collaboration with political interest groups. In International Organization and Co-Operation: An Interorganizational Perspective, Christer Jonsson proposes an interorganizational theory, focusing on networks of resources, actors, & public/private ties within IOs. Based on experience with projects in international coordination of civil air transport, refugees, & atomic energy, the theory suggests redefinitions of power, bargaining, mediation, & brokerage concepts & clarifies the roles of individual leadership, international secretaries, & relations between inter- & nongovernmental organizations. In Toward a Sociology of International Institutions: Comments on the Articles by Smouts, de Senarclens & Jonsson, James A. Caporaso (U of Washington, Seattle) concedes that regime theory's preoccupation with realism, disregard for more integrative, sociological approaches, & failure to discuss the issue of conflictual power relations are problematic, but argues that the alternatives suggested here are also troublesome. In International Regimes and World Politics: Comments on the Articles by Smouts, de Senarclens & Jonsson, Helen Milner concurs that neoliberal institutionalism is marred by realist principles, but stresses that this perspective does not represent all of regime theory. These critiques argue for the primacy of the IO over that of regime. Parallels are drawn between their proposals & a branch of US international relations studies emphasizing intersubjective agreement. 5 Figures, 9 Photographs, 119 References. J. Sadler

Internationale Kooperation lebt durch ihre Akteure. Heute kann beinahe jeder Einfluss auf internationale Entscheidungen nehmen. Matthias Gronholz beschreibt die dahinter stehenden Mechanismen und schlägt einen Bogen vom Dreißigjährigen Krieg bis hin zur Globalisierung. Er offenbart den darwinistischen Einfluss auf die Entwicklung zwischenstaatlicher Beziehungen und die besondere Rolle der Zivilgesellschaft. Die Beispiele vom Westfälischen Frieden über die Vereinten Nationen bis hin zu den G20 vereinfachen in anschaulicher Art und Weise den Zugang zum internationalen Geschehen und ermöglichen es, zukünftige Entwicklungen treffender einzuschätzen. Der Inhalt Theoretische Grundlagen Entwicklungen internationaler Kooperationsformen vom Westfälischen Frieden bis zu den Vereinten Nationen Die großen Veränderungen durch die Globalisierung Zukünftige Entwicklungen Die Zielgruppen Dozierende und Studierende der Globalisierungsforschung, Soziologie, Politik- und Geschichtswissenschaften Akteure im Bereich internationaler Kooperation Der Autor Matthias Gronholz ist im Bereich der internationalen Kooperation als Beamter tätig und Lehrbeauftragter am soziologischen Institut der Universität Freiburg

Elements of International Economics -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I The Basics -- Chapter 2 The Foreign Exchange Market -- Chapter 3 Exchange-Rate Regimes and the International Monetary System -- Chapter 4 International Interest-Rate Parity Conditions -- Chapter 5 The Balance of Payments -- Part II International Finance and Open-Economy Macroeconomics -- Chapter 6 The Basic Models: Elasticities, Multiplier, Mundell-Fleming -- Chapter 7 The Monetary and Portfolio Approaches -- Chapter 8 Capital Movements, Speculation, and Currency Crises -- Chapter 9 Exchange-Rate Determination -- Chapter 10 The Intertemporal Approach to the Balance of Payments -- Chapter 11 International Monetary Integration and European Monetary Union -- Chapter 12 Problems of the International Monetary System -- Part III International Trade Theory and Policy -- Chapter 13 The Orthodox Theory: Comparative Cost, Factor Endowments, Demand -- Chapter 14 Tariffs, and Non-Tariff Barriers -- Chapter 15 Free Trade vs Protection, and Preferential Trade Cooperation -- Chapter 16 The new Protectionism -- Chapter 17 The new Theories of International Trade -- Chapter 18 Growth, Trade, Globalization -- Index -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes.

This volume is a collection of the best essays of Professor Benjamin Miller on the subjects of international and regional security. The book analyses the interrelationships between international politics and regional and national security, with a special focus on the sources of international conflict and collaboration and the causes of war and peace. More specifically, it explains the sources of intended and unintended great-power conflict and collaboration. The book also accounts for the sources of regional war and peace by developing the concept of the state-to-nation balance. Thus the volume is able to explain the variations in the outcomes of great power interventions and the differences in the level and type of war and peace in different eras and various parts of the world. For example, the book's model can account for recent outcomes such as the effects of the 2003 American intervention in Iraq, the post-2011 Arab Spring and the conflicts between Russia and Ukraine. The book also provides a model for explaining the changes in American grand strategy with a special focus on accounting for the causes of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Finally, the book addresses the debate on the future of war and peace in the 21st century. This book will be essential reading for students of international security, regional security, Middle Eastern politics, foreign policy and IR.

When one examines the origins and development of the Red Cross, one cannot fail to be struck by the contrast between the modest circumstances surrounding its creation, in 1863, by five men of good will, members of the Société genevoise d'utilité publique, and the worldwide dimension it has since then acquired. Today, the Red Cross is represented in 130 countries, and there are few people who have not at one time or another availed themselves of its services, either perhaps under dramatic circumstances during a conflict or a natural disaster, or simply in the more familiar areas of social welfare and blood collection.