Domestic politics and international relations are often inextricably entangled, but existing theories (particularly “state-centric” theories) do not adequately account for these linkages. When national leaders must win ratification (formal or informal) from their constituents for an international agreement, their negotiating behavior reflects the simultaneous imperatives of both a domestic political game and an international game. Using illustrations from Western economic summitry, the Panama Canal and Versailles Treaty negotiations, IMF stabilization programs, the European Community, and many other diplomatic contexts, this article offers a theory of ratification. It addresses the role of domestic preferences and coalitions, domestic political institutions and practices, the strategies and tactics of negotiators, uncertainty, the domestic reverberation of international pressures, and the interests of the chief negotiator. This theory of “two-level games” may also be applicable to many other political phenomena, such as dependency, legislative committees, and multiparty coalitions.

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Diplomacy and domestic politics: the logic of two-level games

Distinguishing four sources of power in human societies – ideological, economic, military and political – The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history In this first volume, Michael Mann examines interrelations between these elements from neolithic times, through ancient Near Eastern civilizations, the classical Mediterranean age and medieval Europe, up to just before the Industrial Revolution in England It offers explanations of the emergence of the state and social stratification; of city-states, militaristic empires and the persistent interaction between them; of the world salvation religions; and of the particular dynamism of medieval and early modern Europe It ends by generalizing about the nature of overall social development, the varying forms of social cohesion and the role of classes and class struggle in history First published in 1986, this new edition of Volume 1 includes a new preface by the author examining the impact and legacy of the work

The sources of social power

Part I. Introduction: Developing a Regional Approach to Global Security: 1. Theories and histories about the structure of contemporary international security 2. Levels: distinguishing the regional from the global 3. Security complexes: a theory of regional security Part II. Asia: 4. South Asia: inching towards internal and external transformation 5. Northeast and southeast Asian security complexes during the Cold War 6. The 1990s and beyond: an emergent east Asian complex Conclusion Part III. The Middle East and Africa: Introduction 7. The Middle East: a perennial conflict formation 8. Sub-saharan Africa: security dynamics in a setting of weak and failed states Conclusions Part IV. The Americas: 9. North America: the sole superpower and its surroundings 10. South America: an under-conflictual anomaly? Conclusion: scenarios for the RSCs of the Americas Part V. The Europes: Introduction: 11. EU-Europe: the European Union and its 'near abroad' 12. The Balkans and Turkey 13. The post-Soviet space: a regional security complex around Russia Conclusion: scenarios for the European supercomplex Part VI. Conclusions: 14. Regions and powers: summing up and looking ahead 15. Reflections on conceptualising international security.

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Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security

We analyse an economy where managers engage both in the adoption of technologies from the world frontier and in innovation activities The selection of high-skill managers is more important for innovation activities As the economy approaches the technology frontier, selection becomes more important As a result, countries at early stages of development pursue an investment-based strategy, with long-term relationships, high average size and age of firms, large average investments, but little selection Closer to the world technology frontier, there is a switch to an innovation-based strategy with short-term relationships, younger firms, less investment and better selection of managers We show that relatively backward economies may switch out of the investment-based strategy too soon, so certain economic institutions and policies, such as limits on product market competition or investment subsidies, which encourage the investment-based strategy may be beneficial Societies that cannot switch out of the investment-based strategy, however, fail to converge to the world technology frontier Non-convergence traps are more likely when policies and institutions are endogenized, enabling beneficiaries of existing policies to bribe politicians to maintain these policies

Distance to Frontier, Selection, and Economic Growth

We analyze an economy where firms undertake both innovation and adoption of technologies from the world technology frontier. The selection of high-skill managers and firms is more important for innovation than for adoption. As the economy approaches the frontier, selection becomes more important. Countries at early stages of development pursue an investment-based strategy, which relies on existing firms and managers to maximize investment but sacrifices selection. Closer to the world technology frontier, economies switch to an innovation-based strategy with short-term relationships, younger firms, less investment, and better selection of firms and managers. We show that relatively backward economies may switch out of the investment-based strategy too soon, so certain policies such as limits on product market competition or investment subsidies, which encourage the investment-based strategy, may be beneficial. However, these policies may have significant long-run costs because they make it more likely that a society will be trapped in the investment-based strategy and fail to converge to the world technology frontier. (JEL: O31, O33, O38, O40, L16)

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Chapter 1 Foreword Part 2 Impressions Chapter 3 Searching for an Old Home, Searching for a New China Chapter 4 "The Color of Money": Shanghai Surprises Chapter 5 Daxing: Shanghai Panorama Part 6 Impetus Chapter 7 Dynamism of Market Economy: Stock Market, Private Enterprises/ and Foreign Investment Chapter 8 Sunan's Miracle: Rural Industrial Revolution Changes China's Landscape Chapter 9 Who Created China's Economic Miracle? Meet Chen Jinhai, Peasant-Turned Industrialist Part 10 Impact Chapter 11 "200 Million Mouths Too Many": China's Surplus Rural Laborers Chapter 12 "94ers: Eastward Ho!" Chapter 13 China's Internal Migration Chapter 14 "Rome Was Not Built in a Day, but Zhangjigang Was" Chapter 15 A Model of Urbanization Chapter 16 A Yangtze Three Gorges Adventure Part 17 Incongruities Chapter 18 "Shanghai: City for Sale" Chapter 19 Construction Fever and Land Leasing Chapter 20 On the Road to Subei: The Transportation Bottleneck in China's Development Chapter 21 Unresolved Issues of State-Owned Enterprises: Visiting an SOE and Claiming an IOU Part 22 Implications Chapter 23 Is a Rich Man Happier than a Free Man?: Huaxi Village/ China's "Mini-Singapore" Chapter 24 China's "Yuppie Corps": Meet Mr. Zhang, A Chinese Technocrat Chapter 25 New Thinking of Chinese Intellectuals: Meet Dai Qing, a Women of Ideas and Action Chapter 26 China's Future and Prospects for Sino-American Relations

Rediscovering China : dynamics and dilemmas of reform

Singapore's authoritarian capitalism : Asian values, free market illusions, and political dependency

The Foreign Policy Systems of North and South Korea

Since Mao's death, the Soviet Union has acquired a greater strategic stake in Asia. Official Soviet statements express satisfaction about recent trends in Asian politics: the United States has been expelled from IndoChina, leaving a united Vietnam closely allied with Moscow; pro-Soviet regimes have been installed in Laos and Cambodia; political and economic ties have been established with the ASEAN-countries and with

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Rediscovering China : dynamics and dilemmas of reform

Singapore's authoritarian capitalism : Asian values, free market illusions, and political dependency

The Foreign Policy Systems of North and South Korea

Soviet policy in East Asia

Explaining and Influencing Chinese Arms Transfers