Product Description: ContributorsPeter Cowhey, University of California, San Diego. Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, University of Cambridge and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Zachary Elkins, University of Texas at Austin Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Princeton University Miles Kahler, University of California, San Diego...read more

Product Description: Predictions that globalization would undermine territorial attachments and weaken the sources of territorial conflict have not been realized in recent decades. Globalization may have produced changes in territoriality and the functions of borders, but it has not eliminated them...read more

Product Description: Critics of globalization claim that economic integration drains political authority from states: devolving authority to newly empowered regions, delegating it to supranational organizations, and transferring it to multinational firms and nongovernmental organizations...read more

Product Description: Leadership selection in the major global economic organizations produced unprecedented levels of public conflict during the 1990s. The convention that awards the IMF managing directorship to a European and the World Bank presidency to an American sparked conflict between the United States and Europe as well as growing discontent on the part of Japan and the developing countries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In recent years, international law has become more relevant to world politics as rules have become more precise and obligatory and the delegation of dispute resolution to third parties more frequent...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Capital flows to the developing economies have long displayed a boom-and-bust pattern. Rarely has the cycle turned as abruptly as it did in the 1990s, however: surges in lending were followed by the Mexican peso crisis of 1994-95 and the sudden collapse of currencies in Asia in 1997. This volume maps a new and uncertain financial landscape, one in which volatile private capital flows and fragile banking systems produce sudden reversals of fortune for governments and economies. This environment creates dilemmas for both national policymakers who confront the "mixed blessing" of capital inflows and the international institutions that manage the recurrent crises. The authors--leading economists and political scientists--examine private capital flows and their consequences in Latin America, Pacific Asia, and East Europe, placing current cycles of lending in historical perspective. National governments have used a variety of strategies to deal with capital-account instability. The authors evaluate those responses, prescribe new alternatives, and consider whether the new circumstances require novel international policies. CONTRIBUTORS Gail Buyske, Independent Consultant, New York City Pablo Cabezas, New York University Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley Albert Fishlow, Council on Foreign Relations Miles Kahler, University of California, San Diego Rachel McCulloch, Brandeis University Sylvia Maxfield, Yale University Peter A. Petri, Brandeis University Carmen M. Reinhart, University of Maryland, College Park Vincent Raymond Reinhart, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, D.C. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Harvard University Dorothy M. Sobol, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Andres Velasco, New York University (view table of contents)

Product Description: Unlike other studies of democratization and economic reform, this volume covers both economic and political liberalization in nine essays by scholars who illuminate a new agenda in international relations. The book takes as its subject the global wave of political liberalization that has arisen since the mid-1970s and the even wider trend toward liberal economic policies in the 1980s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work is part of the Integrating National Economies series. As global markets for goods, services and financial assets have become increasingly integrated, national governments no longer have as much control over economic markets...read more

Product Description: As Japan's newfound economic power leads to increased political power, there is concern that Japan may be turning East Asia into a regional economic bloc to rival the U.S. and Europe. In Regionalism and Rivalry, leading economists and political scientists address this concern by looking at three central questions: Is Japan forming a trading bloc in Pacific Asia? Does Japan use foreign direct investment in Southeast Asia to achieve national goals? Does Japan possess the leadership qualities necessary for a nation assuming greater political responsibility in international affairs? The authors contend that although intraregional trade in East Asia is growing rapidly, a trade bloc is not necessarily forming...read more

Articles discuss international affairs, political institutions and leaders, historical developments, and sources of political change and conflict around the world (view table of contents)