LEADER 04284nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910814532403321 005 20230721015419.0 010 $a1-4008-3065-6 010 $a1-282-75460-2 010 $a9786612754609 010 $a0-691-13723-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400830657 035 $a(CKB)2560000000324429 035 $a(EBL)581550 035 $a(OCoLC)664572280 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000414875 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11262147 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000414875 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10409625 035 $a(PQKB)10705219 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581550 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36596 035 $a(DE-B1597)446783 035 $a(OCoLC)979910768 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400830657 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581550 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10412754 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275460 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000324429 100 $a20081023d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aContracting states $esovereign transfers in international relations /$fAlexander Cooley and Hendrik Spruyt 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-13724-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [207]-224) and index. 327 $aIncomplete sovereignty and international relations -- A theory of incomplete contracting and state sovereignty -- Severing the ties that bind: sovereign transfers in the shadow of empire -- Appendix 3.1. Overseas basing deployments of France and Britain since 1970 -- Incomplete contracting and the politics of U.S. overseas basing agreements -- Incomplete contracting and modalities of regional integration -- Further applications and conclusions. 330 $aIncreasingly today nation-states are entering into agreements that involve the sharing or surrendering of parts of their sovereign powers and often leave the cession of authority incomplete or vague. But until now, we have known surprisingly little about how international actors design and implement these mixed-sovereignty arrangements. Contracting States uses the concept of "incomplete contracts"--agreements that are intentionally ambiguous and subject to future renegotiation--to explain how states divide and transfer their sovereign territory and functions, and demonstrate why some of these arrangements offer stable and lasting solutions while others ultimately collapse. Building on important advances in economics and law, Alexander Cooley and Hendrik Spruyt develop a highly original, interdisciplinary approach and apply it to a broad range of cases involving international sovereign political integration and disintegration. The authors reveal the importance of incomplete contracting in the decolonization of territories once held by Europe and the Soviet Union; U.S. overseas military basing agreements with host countries; and in regional economic-integration agreements such as the European Union. Cooley and Spruyt examine contemporary problems such as the Arab-Israeli dispute over water resources, and show why the international community inadequately prepared for Kosovo's independence. Contracting States provides guidance to international policymakers about how states with equally legitimate claims on the same territory or asset can create flexible, durable solutions and avoid violent conflict. 606 $aSovereignty 606 $aMilitary bases, American$zForeign countries 606 $aMilitary bases, British$zForeign countries 606 $aRegionalism (International organization) 607 $aFrance$xArmed Forces$zForeign countries 615 0$aSovereignty. 615 0$aMilitary bases, American 615 0$aMilitary bases, British 615 0$aRegionalism (International organization) 676 $a355.7 700 $aCooley$b Alexander$f1972-$0608742 701 $aSpruyt$b Hendrik$f1956-$0608743 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814532403321 996 $aContracting states$91108981 997 $aUNINA