"These essays are not only individually first-rate, but the collection as a whole is unified and coherent. It moves the arguments about the interrelationships between domestic politics and foreign policy several steps forward."—Robert Jervis, Columbia University "Shows how an integrative analysis of domestic and international politics can aid understanding of many bilateral negotiations. This suggestive volume is likely to affect research on international negotiations for years to come."—Robert O. Keohane, Harvard University "Through a diverse set of case studies, Double-Edged Diplomacy successfully explores the 'two-level games' hypothesis in international negotiations and clearly shows that many international agreements can be understood only in terms of the interaction between domestic politics and international concerns. The net result is an important challenge for international relations theory to reformulate itself by incorporating the rich descrption of international agreements developed in this volume."—Duncan Snidal, University of Chicago
This book represents one of the first comparative studies of international treaty ratification processes in multiple issue areas.
Explores the efficacy of nuclear diplomacy, the consequences of American nuclear brinkmanship, and the implications of the recent revival of nuclear diplomacy by the Clinton administration in conflicts with non-nuclear adversaries.
A comparative study of international treaty ratification processes in multiple issue areas, this text employs the comparative case study method, drawing on original research, elite interviews, and discursive analyses of government documents ...
US enthusiasm for peace operations has fluctuated markedly in the post-Cold War era. This book considers current US peace operations policy from the perspective of fifteen years of fluctuating commitment.
This is a groundbreaking analysis of China's territorial disputes, exploring the successes and failures of negotiations that have taken place between its three neighbours, namely India, Japan and Russia.
Fully revised and updated, this comprehensive guide to diplomacy explores the art of negotiating international agreements and the channels through which such activities occur when states are in diplomatic relations, and when they are not.
Set against the backdrop of tensions in East Asia, this book analyzes how East Asia's "new middle powers" and emerging powers employ public diplomacy as a key element of their foreign policy strategy and in so doing influence regional power ...
... Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of Two- Level Games', International Organization, 1988, Vol. 42, No. 3, p ... Double- Edged Diplomacy, International Bargaining and Domestic Politics, Berkeley: University of California Press ...
This book explores Mexico's foreign policy using the ‘principled pragmatism’ approach.
the Japanese economy slowed from the 1990s and Japan's government became more active in the military field—albeit in a ... 6 See also Robert locke, 'Japan, Refutation of Neoliberalism', Post-Autistic Economics Review, issue no.