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  • Deep Contestations of the Liberal International Order

    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The liberal international order (LIO) is deeply contested. This book distinguishes between "normal" and "deep" contestation: the former represents necessary engagement with norms in ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Hierarchy in International Relations

    by David A. Lake ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    International relations are generally understood as a realm of anarchy in which countries lack any superior authority and interact within a Hobbesian state of nature. In Hierarchy in International Relations, David A. Lake challenges this traditional view, demonstrating that states exercise authority over one another in international hierarchies that vary historically but are still pervasive today ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Indirect Rule

    The Making of US International Hierarchy

    by David A. Lake ...
    Indirect Rule examines how states indirectly exercise authority over others and how this mode of rule affects domestic and international politics.Indirect rule has long characterized interstate relationships and US foreign relations. A key mechanism of international hierarchy, indirect rule involves an allied group within a client state adopting policies preferred by a dominant state in exchange ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Governance in a Global Economy

    Political Authority in Transition

    Edited by Miles Kahler, David A. Lake ...
    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. Globalization is also attacked for forcing convergence of state institutions and policies and threatening the ability of societies ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • International Political Economy

    Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth

    Now in its fourth edition, this best-selling reader in international political economy offers 31 solid articles - 15 new - by renowned scholars in political science and economics. Frieden and Lake have edited and introduced each reading with care to ensure its accessibility to students who are new to the subject. This reader continues to offer a provocative look at the postive and negative impacts ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Strategic Choice and International Relations

    Edited by David A. Lake, Robert Powell ...
    The strategic-choice approach has a long pedigree in international relations. In an area often rent by competing methodologies, editors David A. Lake and Robert Powell take the best of accepted and contested knowledge among many theories. With the contributors to this volume, they offer a unifying perspective, which begins with a simple insight: students of international relations want to explain ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Proxy Wars

    Suppressing Violence through Local Agents

    Edited by Eli Berman, David A. Lake ...
    The most common image of world politics involves states negotiating, cooperating, or sometimes fighting with one another; billiard balls in motion on a global pool table. Yet working through local proxies or agents, through what Eli Berman and David A. Lake call a strategy of "indirect control," has always been a central tool of foreign policy. Understanding how countries motivate local allies to ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Credibility of Transnational NGOs

    When Virtue is Not Enough

    We rely on NGOs to monitor the ethical practices of governments and for-profit firms and to undertake many humanitarian tasks that public and private actors will not do. While we are critical of public and private sector failures, we do not reflect enough on the credibility of the NGOs which take their place. Can we be sure that products NGOs label as child-labor free are in fact so, that the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Politics in the New Hard Times

    The Great Recession in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Miles Kahler, David A. Lake ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    The Great Recession and its aftershocks, including the Eurozone banking and debt crisis, add up to the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Although economic explanations for the Great Recession have proliferated, the political causes and consequences of the crisis have received less systematic attention. Politics in the New Hard Times is the first book to focus on ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict

    Fear, Diffusion, and Escalation

    The wave of ethnic conflict that has recently swept across parts of Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Africa has led many political observers to fear that these conflicts are contagious. Initial outbreaks in such places as Bosnia, Chechnya, and Rwanda, if not contained, appear capable of setting off epidemics of catastrophic proportions. In this volume, David Lake and Donald Rothchild ... Read more

    $51.89 USD

  • Entangling Relations

    American Foreign Policy in Its Century

    by David A. Lake ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Throughout what publisher Henry Luce dubbed the "American century," the United States has wrestled with two central questions. Should it pursue its security unilaterally or in cooperation with others? If the latter, how can its interests be best protected against opportunism by untrustworthy partners? In a major attempt to explain security relations from an institutionalist approach, David A. Lake ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Power, Protection, and Free Trade

    International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887–1939

    by David A. Lake ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    Why do nations so frequently abandon unrestricted international commerce in favor of trade protectionism? David A. Lake contends that the dominant explanation, interest group theory, does not adequately explain American trade strategy or address the contradictory elements of cooperation and conflict that shape the international economy. Power, Protection, and Free Trade offers an alternative, ... Read more

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