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1. Intervention, Ethnic Conflict and State-Building in Iraq

   A Paradigm for the Post-Colonial State

   By Michael Rear

   Series: Studies in International Relations

   External intervention by the U.N. and other actors in ethnic conflicts has interfered with the state-building process in post-colonial states. Rear examines the 1991 uprisings in Iraq and demonstrates how this intervention has contributed to the problems with democratization experienced in the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Domestic Politics and International Narcotics Control

   U.S. Relations with Mexico and Colombia, 1989-2000

   By Victor J. Hinojosa

   Series: Studies in International Relations

   This book examines different levels of narcotics control cooperation between the United States, Mexico and Colombia. Victor J. Hinojosa finds that Mexico is consistently held to a very different standard than Colombia and that the US often satisfies domestic political pressures to be tough on...

   Published May 3rd 2012 by Routledge
3. Negotiating the Arctic

   The Construction of an International Region

   By E.C.H Keskitalo

   Series: Studies in International Relations

   This work draws upon the history of Arctic development and the view of the Arctic in different states to explain how such a discourse has manifested itself in current broader cooperation across eight statistics analysis based on organization developments from the late 1970s to the present, shows...

   Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge
4. A Global Union for Global Workers

   Collective Bargaining and Regulatory Politics in Maritime Shipping

   By Nathan Lillie

   Series: Studies in International Relations

   This is a book about how global unionism was born in the maritime shipping sector. It argues that the industrial structure of shipping, and specifically the interconnected nature of shipping production chains, facilitated the globalization of union bargaining strategy, and the transnationalization...

   Published June 17th 2010 by Routledge
5. International Election Monitoring, Sovereignty, and the Western Hemisphere

   The Emergence of an International Norm

   By Arturo Santa-Cruz

   Series: Studies in International Relations

   This book traces the process by which national elections became international events or, more precisely, what the effects of this process are on state sovereignty. Contrary to the conventional wisdom in International Relations - to judge by the neglect of this phenomenon in the literature - this...

   Published June 8th 2010 by Routledge
6. Peacekeeping in the Middle East as an International Regime

   By Kenneth Dombroski

   Series: Studies in International Relations

   This book investigates whether an international institution can alter state behaviour and thereby contribute to the peaceful resolution of a conflict. Kenneth Dombroski focuses on the series of interrelated peacekeeping efforts undertaken to help resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict from 1948-1994....

   Published March 17th 2010 by Routledge
7. Political Corruption in the Caribbean Basin

   Constructing a Theory to Combat Corruption

   By Michael W. Collier

   Series: Studies in International Relations

   Political corruption in the Caribbean Basin retards state economic growth and development, undermines government legitimacy, and threatens state security. In spite of recent anti-corruption efforts of intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations (IGO/NGOs), Caribbean political corruption...

   Published June 8th 2009 by Routledge
8. The United Nations and Democracy in Africa

   Labyrinths of Legitimacy

   By Zoë Wilson

   Series: Studies in International Relations

   This book explores UN bureaucracy and the development dysfunction it sows in four 'most different' African countries: Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and Tanzania. Wilson's original purpose for researching this book was to uncover new solutions to some of the United Nations' most vexing implementation...

   Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
9. International Environmental Treaties and State Behavior

   Factors Influencing Cooperation

   By Denise DeGarmo

   Series: Studies in International Relations

   Despite the growing recognition of the importance of environmental issues for nation-state security, current research on international environmental security is insufficient. Although scholars in the field of International Relations believe that there is an appropriate role for international...

   Published February 11th 2009 by Routledge
10. Malaysia and the Development Process

    Globalization, Knowledge Transfers and Postcolonial Dilemmas

    By Vanessa C.M. Chio

    Series: Studies in International Relations

    Published November 19th 2004 by Routledge