Contracting States (ebook)

Argumento de Contracting States (ebook)

"Contracting States is a brilliant and original book--a long-overdue addition to international relations theory. Extending insights from incomplete contracting theory and conceiving of sovereignty as a bundle of 'tradable' rights, Cooley and Spruyt offer a unified analytical framework that sheds fresh light on seemingly disparate key events, including regional integration, state formation, and territorial fragmentation."--Walter Mattli, St. John's College, University of Oxford

"Contrary to the common image of state sovereignty as unitary and absolute, Cooley and Spruyt examine the many situations in which sovereignty rights are shared or transferred: decolonization, foreign military bases, water rights, ethnic federalism, and more. Their use of the concept of incomplete contracting to shed light on a huge range of historical and contemporary bargaining processes is as timely as today's news stories about Russia's gas pipeline price gouging."--Jack Snyder, Columbia University

"Contracting States is an extraordinary undertaking that challenges us to see the foundations of successful international cooperation in a new light. This is likely to be a seminal work that defines the terms of the debate about sovereignty and governance for years to come."--Philip G. Roeder, University of California, San Diego

"Contracting States adds a great deal to our understanding of mixed forms of sovereignty. It not only poses an interesting puzzle but provides a sophisticated theoretical framework and leaves the reader with useful policy prescriptions for hybrid governance structures. This book makes a significant contribution to the literature. I learned a great deal from Contracting States."--Katja Weber, Georgia Institute of Technology

"Contracting States sheds new light on the changing nature of state sovereignty, examining how sovereignty is frequently divided and explaining that how this is done has important later consequences for the actors involved. . . . Contracting States is an important book that warrants the attention of international relations scholars."--Richard W. Mansbach, Perspectives on Politics0List of Illustrations and Tables ix
Preface xi
Chapter 1. Incomplete Sovereignty and International Relations 1
Chapter 2. A Theory of Incomplete Contracting and State Sovereignty 19
Chapter 3. Severing the Ties That Bind: Sovereign Transfers
in the Shadow of Empire 48
Appendix 3.1. Overseas Basing Deployments of France and Britain since 1970 97
Chapter 4. Incomplete Contracting and the Politics of U.S. Overseas Basing Agreements 100
Chapter 5. Incomplete Contracting and Modalities of Regional Integration 142
Chapter 6. Further Applications and Conclusions 186
Bibliography 207
Index 225