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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 October 2009
      08 December 2003
      ISBN:
      9780511512209
      9780521533584
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511512209
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.496kg, 356 Pages
      • Series:
      International Organization
      Subjects:
      Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations, Comparative Politics
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    Series:
    International Organization
    Subjects:
    Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations, Comparative Politics
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    International institutions vary widely in terms of key institutional features such as membership, scope, and flexibility. In this 2004 book, Barbara Koremenos, Charles Lipson, and Duncan Snidal argue that this is so because international actors are goal-seeking agents who make specific institutional design choices to solve the particular cooperation problems they face in different issue-areas. Using a Rational Design approach, they explore five features of institutions - membership, scope, centralization, control, and flexibility - and explain their variation in terms of four independent variables that characterize different cooperation problems: distribution, number of actors, enforcement, and uncertainty. The contributors to the volume then evaluate a set of conjectures in specific issue areas ranging from security organizations to trade structures to rules of war to international aviation. Alexander Wendt appraises the entire Rational Design model of evaluating international organizations and the authors respond in a conclusion that sets forth both the advantages and disadvantages of such an approach.

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