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The 2007–9 financial crisis threatened economic disaster on a scale not seen since the Great Depression, but rapid state action prevented the widely feared devastation. The German response was considerably more generous to banks than the American or British bailouts. Drawing on interviews and primary sources in government, private firms, and media, Mitchell explains how the structure of national financial systems and interbank relationships produced extensive private rescues and pressure on different states. Mitchell explores the different responses and results in Germany, the UK and the US using a combination of detailed case study analyses of the three countries' responses to the crisis and a quantitative analysis of patterns of state responses to financial crises. This book will be essential reading for scholars and advanced students of political economy, comparative politics, economic sociology, economics, and public policy

Building upon Mitchell's earlier work, The Structure of International Conflict, this volume surveys the field of conflict analysis and resolution in the twenty-first century, exploring the methods which people have sought to mitigate destructive processes including the creative and innovative new ways of resolving insoluble disputes.

Cover -- Gestures of Conciliation -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: The Sadat Initiatives -- 1 Frustration and War: 1970-1973 -- 2 Suez and Jerusalem: 1974-1977 -- 3 Conciliation: Concepts, Frameworks and Models -- 4 Contexts For Conciliation -- 5 Varieties of Olive Branch -- 6 The Nature of the Initiative: Characteristics and Impact -- 7 Increasing Recognisability -- 8 Enhancing Credibility -- 9 Reducing Mistrust -- Chapter 10 Obstacles to Clear Signalling -- 11 Obstacles to Prompt Reacting -- 12 Conciliation and Intra-Party Conflicts -- 13 Channels for Conciliation -- 14 Hypotheses on Conciliation -- Epilogue: Nearing Camp David -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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This article focuses on an old type of imposed peace settlement which has been enjoying something of a revival in the past decade and has challenged the dominant "liberal peace" model as a way of ending violence in a conflict. It seeks to clarify what is meant by an "illiberal" or authoritarian peace by re-examining and contrasting the essential characters of a liberal peace. The study uses the series of peace agreements in Central America and elsewhere during the 1990s as examples, and then contrasts these with authoritarian or "illiberal" settlements, ending by asking whether an "illiberal," or even a "victor's" peace, might be more durable, at least in the short run.

AbstractRecent developments in the international banking system, especially the 2007–9 crisis and subsequent wave of postcrisis regulation, have drawn increasing attention to the structural power of banks and banking systems. States need a functioning financial system to ensure the overall health of their economies, so states must shape policy to protect their financial firms. National financial systems may be dominated either by banks or by capital markets. In states where banks dominate provision of capital, states must shape policy to protect their banks because of their structural importance, independent of any lobbying or other direct action on the part of banks to exercise instrumental power. The entangling of structural and instrumental power means studying differences in structural power requires either careful case-study work or cross-national comparison of responses to a common shock. The implementation of the 2011 Basel III Accords provides just such an opportunity. This article offers a quantitative analysis of a new dataset of implementation of Basel III components in the Basel Committee on Banking Stability member states from 2011 to 2019 and demonstrates the structural power of banks in bank-based systems to accelerate implementation of favorable policies and slow implementation of unfavorable ones.