Product Description: Thomas Biersteker evaluates the sources of Third World economic nationalism and assesses the significance of the changes that have taken place between North and South since the early 1970s. Neo-classical and neo-Marxist approaches to international and comparative political economy are explored to develop methods and select criteria for the assessment of major change...read more

Product Description: Groups committing acts of terrorism have adapted their means of financing to elude detection since the 9/11 attacks in the United States. Surveying the global community’s multi-year effort to cut off terrorist funding, this volume offers a much-needed analysis of a complex, widely discussed, yet poorly understood subject...read more

Product Description: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: The emergence of private authority is now a feature of the post-Cold War world. The contributors to this volume examine the implications of the erosion of the state's power in global governance. They analyze financial institutions, multinational corporations, religious terrorists and organized crime operations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: State sovereignty is an inherently social construct. The modern state system is not based on some timeless principle of sovereignty, but on the production of a normative conception that links authority, territory, population, and recognition in a unique way, and in a particular place (the state)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The global debt burden has proved to be a bad bargain for developed and developing countries alike. This selection of case studies illustrates the complexity of international financial negotiations and the difficulty of reaching international agreements satisfactory to both creditors and debtors. The book includes a theoretical overview of the subject as well as case studies describing the principal institutional actors, and a glossary which illustrates how complex international financial negotiations are conducted and their impact on both the domestic political economy and the international relations of the countries involved.