Product Description: Researchers have recently reinvigorated the idea that key features associated with a capitalist organization of the economy render nation states internally and externally more peaceful. According to this adage, the contract intensity of capitalist societies and the openness of the economy are among the main attributes that drive these empirical relationships...read more

Product Description: Innerstaatliche Gewaltkonflikte haben in den letzten Jahrzehnten die zwischenstaatlichen Kriege als häufigste und opferträchtigste Form der militärischen Auseinandersetzungen abgelöst. Die meisten theoriegeleiteten Erklärungen zu solcher innenpolitischen Gewalt lassen sich den Kategorien Identität, Institutionen oder Ökonomie zuordnen...read more

Product Description: Globalization and Armed Conflict addresses one of the most important and controversial issues of our time: Does global economic integration foster or suppress violent disputes within and between states? Here, cutting-edge research by leading figures in international relations shows that expanding commercial ties between states pacifies some, but not necessarily all, political relationships...read more

Product Description: What kind of institutions matter in the context of the European Union? This book assesses the relevance of the competing institutionalist approaches to the European Union? Scholars from three different approaches--history, sociology, and rational choice--clarify the distinctions between the new institutionalist approaches and open up a dialogue between them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: What kind of institutions matter in the context of the European Union? This book assesses the relevance of the competing institutionalist approaches to the European Union? Scholars from three different approaches--history, sociology, and rational choice--clarify the distinctions between the new institutionalist approaches and open up a dialogue between them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book brings together scholars from economic and political science to study the interactions within the European Union from a strategic or rational choice perspective. The contributors seek to understand the relationship between member states and competing European institutions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume explores the theoretical value of applying rational choice theory to questions of regional integration. As with other questions of conflict and cooperation in the field of international politics, studies of European integration are divided largely between the realist and liberalist perspectives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)