Keeping International Commitments

Keeping International Commitments
Author: Eleonore Kokotsis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2014-04-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135683131

This study is the first to offer explanations for compliance with G7 commitments by identifying the patterns, explaining the causes and exploring the processes of this compliance from 1988-1995. It provides the only systematic review of the G7's compliance record in the post-Cold War globalizing system of the 1990s and in regard to important environment and development commitments that have often dominated the Summit's agenda during this third cycle of summitry. It draws on explanatory factors for Summit compliance from three bodies of international relations theory-including regime theory, concert theory and the recent extension of regime theory to embrace the effects of domestic political institutions.

Forging an East Asian Foreign Policy

Forging an East Asian Foreign Policy
Author: Jeffrey Scott Conklin
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 94
Release: 1995
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780819198273

Investigates the US foreign policy process and examines the evolution of US foreign policy in the post-Cold War world. Conklin presents a broad survey of the global political climate to illustrate the current trends in world politics and analyses the Clinton administration's reaction to the trends.

The Evolution of US Peacekeeping Policy Under Clinton

The Evolution of US Peacekeeping Policy Under Clinton
Author: Michael G. MacKinnon
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780714649375

This fascinating study examines the dynamic process through which the Clinton administration developed a policy towards UN peace support operations. The author addresses the fundamental question: what factors influenced the shift in US policy towards the United Nations and its peace support operations and which factors were clearly dominant? Based on primary sources and interviews with political personalities and officials, the author examines four main factors which shaped the development of policy: the Executive branch, the bureaucracies (the State Department and Department of Defense), Congress and public opinion. These provide the basis for the core chapters of the book, which also contains a chapter on methodology and a chapter of summary analysis.

Unwinnable Wars

Unwinnable Wars
Author: David Callahan
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 0809016109

In this new book, David Callahan offers a thorough history of ethnic conflicts both before and after the fall of Communism. He outlines the failures and successes of American diplomacy's haphazard approaches to this strife, and offers compelling evidence of the need for a consistent American policy toward ethnic conflict, a policy that should extend beyond the peace of individual countries to international trade, economics, the environment, and more. Callahan's sensible recommendations for how to predict and prevent ethnic conflicts - and intervene when necessary - will prove invaluable for all those interested in the global power of the United States in the next century.