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The politics of international debt have received increasing attention in recent years. However, discussion of the politics of money has focused on Latin American and 'third' world countries. So far there has been little treatment of the politics of scarce money and of money as a political category in relation to 'advanced' countries. The central theme of the book is the limitations and constraints on state action which arise from the relation between the (nation) state and the global flow of money.

When and in what circumstances do states turn to conflict management to manage a crisis? This article identifies a set of contextual, processual, and structural variables, examining the presence and strength of their associations with the likelihood of states employing conflict management in a foreign policy crisis. I conduct an empirical analysis of more than one thousand foreign policy crises between 1918 and 2013, using the International Crisis Behavior (ICB)-2 dataset, and with the data seek to craft a comprehensive model with the capacity to reliably predict when states will turn to conflict management in a foreign policy crisis based on the context and dynamics of a crisis as well as the attributes of crisis actors. My analysis suggests that states are more likely to employ negotiation, mediation, adjudication, and arbitration in foreign policy crises where the appeal, utility, and experience of violence is diminished; in crises involving weak, nascent, and/or transitional political entities; in crises involving fewer actors and/or crises not embedded within protracted conflicts; and in crises in which International Governmental Organizations (IGOs) are significantly involved.

THE GOAL OF THIS ARTICLE IS TO LINK THE LESSONS OF SPECIFIC CASES TO BROADER ELABORATIONS OF SOCIAL THEORY IN ORDER TO BUILD A SYSTEMATIC METHODOLOGY FOR MORE SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS IN THE FUTURE. IT STARTS FROM THE ASSUMPTIONS THAT UN ACTIONS REPRESENT THE WILL OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND THAT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OFTEN HAS A MORAL DUTY TO INTERVENE FOR HUMANITARIAN REASONS, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE POPULALATION OF A COUNTRY IS CONFRONTED WITH THE KIND OF WIDESPREAD SUFFERING THAT EXISTED IN SOMALIA. IT BEGINS WITH THE SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE IN SOMALIA AND THEN TURNS TO THE MORE GENERAL LESSONS FOR SIMILAR HUMANITARIAN PEACE ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONS.

Assesses the idea of unilateralism, its possibilities and limits, and challenges of the twenty first century and international politics; cites international organizations as facilitators of multilateral action. Examples include the UN, the OSCE, and NATO; argues that unilateralism in the sense of complete freedom of action is counterproductive.

"Authority, Ascendancy, and Supremacy examines the American, Chinese, and Russian (Big 3) competition for power and influence in the Post-Cold War Era. With the ascension of regional powers such as India, Iran, Brazil, and Turkey, the Big 3 dynamic is an evolving one, which cannot be ignored because of its effect to not only reshape regional security, but also control influence and power in world affairs. How does one define a "global" or "regional" power in the Post-Cold War Era? How does the relationships among the Big 3 influence regional actors? Gregory O. Hall utilizes country data from primary and secondary sources to reveal that since the early 1990s, competition for influence and power among the Big 3 has intensified and could result in armed confrontation among the major powers. He assesses the state of affairs in each country's economic, resource, military, social/demographic, and political spheres. In addition, events data, which focuses on international interactions, facilitates identifying trends in Big 3 interactions as well as their concerns and affairs with regional players. Opinion data, drawn from policy makers, scholarly interviews, and survey research data, identifies foreign policy interests among the Big 3, as well non-Big 3 foreign policy behaviors. With its singular focus on American, Chinese, and Russian interactions, policy interests, and behaviors, Authority, Ascendancy, and Supremacy represents a significant contribution for understanding and managing Post-Cold War conflicts and promises to be an important book"--

A celebration of the scholarship of Richard Baxter, former Judge of the International Court of Justice and former Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School. The volume brings together Professor Baxter's writings on the laws of war, on which he was one of the most influential scholars of the twentieth century. His work remains timely and relevant to today's issues, and offers many analyses which have been borne out in subsequent years. It includes, amongst many wide-ranging topics within the laws of war, Baxter's studies of the Geneva Conventions, human rights in times of war, and the legal problems of international military command