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Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1 Conceptualizing State Participation and Resistance with Multilateral Treaty Regimes -- Analytical Case Studies -- Domestic Politics and Treaty Participation -- Realist International Relations Theory and Interstate Cooperation -- Multilateralism as a Loose System of Global Governance -- Foreign Policy Behavior of the Democracies -- Integrating Domestic and International Politics -- 2 Probing the Organizational Structure of Treaty Regimes and its Influence on Participation and Resistance -- Evolution of Multilateral Treaties -- Participation in Treaties -- Why States Join Treaties -- Consent with Treaties and State Participation -- Participation in Treaties and Levels of Consent -- Resistance to Participation in Treaties -- Domestic Political Structure as a Source of Participation and Resistance -- Identifying Domestic Social Norms -- Cross-National Analysis of Treaty Ratification -- Global Environmental Treaties -- 3 State Participation in Multilateral Environmental and Security Regimes -- Multilateral Treaties -- Data on Domestic Polities -- Multilateral Environmental Treaty Regimes -- Choice of MEAs for Treaty Participation Analysis -- State Participation in Multilateral Environmental Treaties -- Assessing Participation in Multilateral Environmental Treaties -- Controlling the Spread of WMD through Multilateral Treaties -- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime -- Other Types of Arms Control Agreements -- WMD Capable States and Arms Control Regimes -- Participation in Multilateral Arms Control Agreements -- 4 State Participation in Multilateral Human Rights Regimes -- United Nations Human Rights Treaty System -- State Participation in Human Rights Conventions

Why do some states resist entering into international treaty regimes while others demonstrate eagerness to participate? Drawing on United Nations treaty ratification data from three different issue areas - arms control, environment and human rights - this volume focuses on the United States and China to study the participation patterns of democracies and non-democracies in international treaty regimes.

A major contribution of the enduring rivalry literature is that the same pair of states—commonly referred to as dyads—are the cause for the majority of violent territorial changes and low-intensity conflicts. Enduring rivalries account for almost half of the militarized disputes during the past 200 years. Expanding literature on enduring rivalries informs us that militarized disputes and crises are influenced by past outcomes, internal dynamics of conflict behaviour and the prospects of future disputes. This article focuses on the India–Pakistan enduring rivalry, which has persisted for 68 years, and this rivalry is marked by four wars, and numerous instances of asymmetric warfare. The India–Pakistan rivalry has proved to be the most enduring, and it simply does not show any sign of abatement, and this conflict has become nested within the Pakistan–Afghanistan and India–China regional rivalry and territorial dispute. In addition, the India–Pakistan enduring rivalry has also become deeply enmeshed in the American-led Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). This article reviews the vast literature on enduring rivalry with particular focus on India–Pakistan to examine what factors have led to the persistence and exacerbation of this rivalry and why it is displaying no inclination towards termination.