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Indirect Rule -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Indirect Rule -- 2. Indirect Rule in the Caribbean and Central America -- 3. Hierarchy in the Caribbean and Central America -- 4. Indirect Rule in Western Europe -- 5. Hierarchy in Western Europe -- 6. Indirect Rule in the Arab Middle East -- 7. Hierarchy in the Arab Middle East -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index.

Indirect Rule examines how states indirectly exercise authority over others and how this mode of rule affects domestic and international politics. Indirect rule has long characterized interstate relationships and US foreign relations. A key mechanism of international hierarchy, indirect rule involves an allied group within a client state adopting policies preferred by a dominant state in exchange for the dominant state's support. Drawing on the history of US involvement in the Caribbean and Central America, Western Europe, and the Arab Middle East, David A. Lake shows that indirect rule is more likely to occur when the specific assets at risk are large and governance costs are low. Lake's conceptualization of indirect rule sharpens our understanding of how the United States came to occupy the pinnacle of world power. Yet the consequences of indirect rule he documents - including anti-Americanism - reveal its shortcomings. As US efforts at democracy promotion and other forms of intervention abroad face declining support at home, Indirect Rule compels us to consider whether this method of rule ultimately advances US interests.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction -- CHAPTER 2. Security Relationships -- CHAPTER 3. A Theory of Relational Contracting -- CHAPTER 4. The Lone Hand -- CHAPTER 5. Cold War Cooperation -- CHAPTER 6. Gulliver's Triumph -- CHAPTER 7. Relational Contracting and International Relations -- CHAPTER 8. Conclusion -- References -- Index

Power Protection, and Free Trade -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Structure And Strategy -- 1. A Theory of International Economic Structures -- 2. Structure, the State, and Trade Strategy -- Part II. American Trade Strategy -- 3. Free Riding on Free Trade, 1887-1897 -- 4. British Decline and American Opportunism, 1897-1912 -- 5. The Politics of Opportunistic Accommodation, 1912-1930 -- 6. Protection, Retaliation, and Response, 1930-1939 -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Relative Labor Productivity: Definitional and Operational Considerations -- Index

The Statebuilder's Dilemma -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Building Legitimate States -- 2. Problems of Sovereignty -- 3. Legitimacy and Loyalty -- 4. Statebuilding in Iraq -- 5. Statebuilding in Somalia -- Conclusion -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

Why do nations so frequently abandon unrestricted international commerce in favor of trade protectionism? David A. Lake contends that the dominant explanation, interest group theory, does not adequately explain American trade strategy or address the contradictory elements of cooperation and conflict that shape the international economy.Power, Protection, and Free Trade offers an alternative, systemic approach to trade strategy that builds on the interaction between domestic and international factors. In this innovative book, Lake maintains that both protection and free trade are legitimate and effective instruments of national policy, the considered responses of nations to varying international structures.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. International Relations: A Strategic-Choice Approach -- Chapter Two. Actors and Preferences in International Relations -- Chapter Three. The Strategic Setting of Choices: Signaling, Commitment, and Negotiation in International Politics -- Chapter Four. Institutions as Constraints on Strategic Choice -- Chapter Five. The Governance Problem in International Relations -- Chapter Six. Evolution, Choice, and International Change -- Chapter Seven. The Limits of Strategic Choice: Constrained Rationality and Incomplete Explanation -- References -- About the Authors -- Name Index -- General Index

The most common image of world politics involves states negotiating, cooperating, or sometimes fighting with one another; billiard balls in motion on a global pool table. Yet working through local proxies or agents, through what Eli Berman and David A. Lake call a strategy of "indirect control," has always been a central tool of foreign policy. Understanding how countries motivate local allies to act in sometimes costly ways, and when and how that strategy succeeds, is essential to effective foreign policy in today's world. In this splendid collection, Berman and Lake apply a variant of principal-agent theory in which the alignment of interests or objectives between a powerful state and a local proxy is central. Through analysis of nine detailed cases, Proxy Wars finds that: when principals use rewards and punishments tailored to the agent's domestic politics, proxies typically comply with their wishes; when the threat to the principal or the costs to the agent increase, the principal responds with higher-powered incentives and the proxy responds with greater effort; if interests diverge too much, the principal must either take direct action or admit that indirect control is unworkable. Covering events from Denmark under the Nazis to the Korean War to contemporary Afghanistan, and much in between, the chapters in Proxy Wars engage many disciplines and will suit classes taught in political science, economics, international relations, security studies, and much more.

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