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Theories of international cooperation and the primacy of anarchy : explaining U.S. international policy-making after Bretton Woods / Jennifer Sterling-Folker.
Lippincott Library HG540 .S735 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sterling-Folker, Jennifer Anne, 1960-
- Series:
- SUNY series in global politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monetary policy--United States.
- Monetary policy.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign economic relations.
- International economic relations.
- Economic policy--International cooperation.
- Economic policy.
- International cooperation.
- International agencies.
- United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (1944 : Bretton Woods, N.H.).
- United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 308 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002]
- Contents:
- 1 Explaining International Cooperation 1
- The "New" International Organization 5
- Prior Periods of Liberal Cogency 8
- Constructivism in an Era of Liberal Cogency 13
- A Second Look at Interdependence and Regimes as Explanations for Cooperation 18
- A Realist-Constructivist Alternative 24
- 2 Liberal Cooperation Theory 37
- Defining Interdependence 38
- Autonomy and Sovereignty in Interdependence 41
- Interdependence and Cooperation According to Issue Areas 45
- Complex Interdependence: Issue Areas of Mutual Gain in Conditions of Interdependence 48
- Domestic Structural and Cognitive Barriers to Cooperation 51
- Changing Cognitive Maps: Learning, Information, Linkages, and Regimes 58
- Interdependence as Process and By Way of Conclusion 63
- 3 A Realist-Constructivist Alternative 67
- The "Conventional Wisdom" 67
- Revisiting the Concept of Anarchy 70
- Human Social Practice in an Anarchic Environment 76
- The Foundation for a Neoclassical Realist Approach to Autonomy and Cooperation 84
- Autonomy as a Social Practice 92
- The Realist-Constructivist Approach to International Cooperation 100
- 4 Empirical Propositions and the Bretton Woods Monetary Regime 105
- Monetary Elite Networks and Opportunities in the American Context 107
- Operationalizing Liberal Expectations: A First Cut 116
- Post-Bretton Woods as Regime Creation and Policy Optimizing 118
- Defining Functional Institutional Efficiency in International Monetary Affairs 123
- Post-Bretton Woods as Regimes Maintenance and Satisficing Stabilization 131
- Operationalizing Realist-Constructivist Expectations 136
- Research Design Summary 139
- 5 U.S. International Monetary Cooperation, 1971-1993 143
- "The Dollar May be Our Currency But It's Your Problem" 143
- "In a Boat With an Elephant" 152
- "The Magic of the Marketplace" 158
- "Cowboys at the Hotel" 164
- "Remember, It Was Only Dinner Conversation" 171
- "Once in a While I Think about those Things, But Not Much" 176
- 6 Why Liberal Theories Fail to Account for the Empirical Record 183
- Revelations from the Empirical Record 184
- Economic Policymakers in History 188
- The Shift From Regime Creation to Regime Maintenance 194
- Interdependent Demand and Functionally Efficient Supply 201
- 7 Explaining U.S. International Monetary Cooperation with Realist-Constructivism 211
- Returning to the Hotel 215
- Why Toast the God of Cooperation? 218
- Post-Plaza Polite "Dinner Conversation" 223
- Directions for Future Research 226
- Cooperation and the Possibility of Fundamental Systemic Change 230.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's dissertation (University of Chicago, 1993).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-287) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791452077
- 0791452085
- OCLC:
- 47717875
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