Karen A. Mingst

The United States and Multilateral Institutions : Patterns of Changing Instrumentality and Influence

Glossary Chapter One The US and Multilateral Institutions: A Framework for Analysis Margaret Karns and Karen Mingst Chapter Two US Military Security Policies: The Role and Influence of IGOs Harold Jacobson Chapter Three Dominance without Hegemony: US Relations with the International Atomic Energy Agency Benjamin Schiff Chapter Four The US and the International Monetary Fund: Declining Influence or Declining Interest? Miles Kahler Chapter Five The World Bank and US Control William Ascher Chapter Six Multilateral Diplomacy and Trade Policy: The US and GATT Margaret Karns Chapter Seven International Food Organizations and the US: Drifting Leadership and Divergent Interests Raymond Hopkins Chapter Eight The US and the World Health Organization Karen Mingst Chapter Nine Changing Patterns of Conflict: The US and UNESCO Roger Coate Chapter Ten The US, the United Nations, and Human Rights David Forsythe Chapter Eleven Continuity and Change in US-IGO Relationships: A Comparative Analysis with Implications for the Future of Multilateralism in US Policy Margaret Karns and Karen Mingst Chapter Twelve IGOs, Regimes and Cooperation: Challenges for International Relations Theory Duncan Snidal

The Ivory Coast at the Semi-Periphery of the World-Economy

World-system theorists posit that semi-peripheral states, exhibiting a set of specific characteristics, occupy a critical position between the core and the periphery in the world-economy. The characteristics of the Ivory Coast and its role in the world-economy are evaluated to determine whether that country is a member of the semi-periphery. Under conditions of economic growth, sector but not trading-partner diversification occurred. The political leadership played a strong role in promoting state-supported capitalism, and politicization of societal cleavages was averted. France played a critical role in facilitating the movement of the Ivory Coast toward the semi-periphery. The interests of French business and political elites and the Ivorian political leadership coincided. Yet under conditions of economic decline, contrary to the expectations of world-system theorists, trade has not been reoriented, societal division has been exacerbated, and strong state policies have altered the trend. The Ivory Coasts economic dependence on the core has been accentuated (debt crisis) and its economic prowess and leadership position vis-a-vis its periphery weakened. Hence, generalizations regarding the permanence of the Ivory Coasts position in the semi-periphery may be

Troubled Waters: The United States-United Nations Relationship

In explaining the difficulties between the United Nations and United States, this article emphasizes four factors. First, American political culture reifies American exceptionalism and commitment to sovereignty. Second, the emergence of complex peacekeeping and peace enforcement has brought US military and civilians into a direct role that complicates the countrys relationship with the UN. Third, US domestic politics has a key effect on the relationship. Fourth, the US position as unrivaled hegemon has enabled it to use and manage the Security Council to its advantage, or to thwart the body altogether. The articles prognosis is that the US will continue to oscillate between supporting the UN and taking actions which simultaneously undermine its very existence.

Linkages between international organizations and individuals: Three cases

The paper examines the two principal types of linkages between international organizations and individuals: the state‐centric and transnational patterns. The Hague Conference on Private International Law illustrates the first pattern; the Inter‐American Commission of Women and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the second. The organizations are evaluated and the targets of organization action, analyzed. Finally, a typology relating types of international organizations (by organizational characteristics) to targets is proposed.

International Organisations and Peace Enforcement. The Politics of International Legitimacy

International Organisations and Peace Enforcement. The Politics of International Legitimacy. By Katharina P. Coleman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 360p.

Continuity and discontinuity in Opec: Member interaction patterns, 1959–1974

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International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance

36.99 paper. Since the 1990s, international and regional organizations have engaged in a record 17 peace enforcement operations, multilateral military interventions to end violent conflict within a country. In her excellent book, Katharina P. Coleman seeks to explain why states choose to act either through the auspices or with the explicit consent of an international organization. Using a comparative case method, she explores state motivations in the Nigerian intervention in Liberia under the Economic Community of West African States; the U.S.-led operation in Kosovo under NATO; the interventions of Australia in East Timor under the United Nations; and South Africas intervention in Lesotho and Zimbabwes actions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, both under the SADC (Southern African Development Community).

The United Nations in the post-cold war era

Most scholars explain political interactions within OPEC countries with reference to clusters of economic and political variables. In this paper, we use dyadic interaction data to describe the frequency and affective orientation between OPEC pairs. Explanations for the prominent trends within the four time periods are offered. The analysis suggests that no combination of political or economic factors explain consistently the coalitions and cleavages within OPEC between 1959 and 1974.