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Contracting States

Sovereign Transfers in International Relations

By: Alexander Cooley, Hendrik Spruyt

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Paperback | 10 May 2009

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Increasingly 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.

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"Contracting States sheds new light on the changing nature of state sovereignty, examining how sovereignty is frequently divided and explaining that how this is done has important later consequences for the actors involved... Contracting States is an important book that warrants the attention of international relations scholars."--Richard W. Mansbach, Perspectives on Politics

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List of Illustrations and Tables	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Incomplete Sovereignty and International Relations	p. 1
A Theory of Incomplete Contracting and State Sovereignty	p. 19
Severing the Ties That Bind: Sovereign Transfers in the Shadow of Empire	p. 48
Overseas Basing Deployments of France and Britain since 1970	p. 97
Incomplete Contracting and the Politics of U.S. Overseas Basing Agreements	p. 100
Incomplere Contracting and Modalities of Regional Integration	p. 142
Further Applications and Conclusions	p. 186
Bibliography	p. 207
Index	p. 225
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