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TL;DR: Beissinger and Young as discussed by the authors compare the state crisis in Africa and post-Soviet Eurasia and conclude that "the state is strong when the state is weak" and "strong when the State is weak".
Abstract: Part I Overview and Retrospective: 1. Introduction - Comparing State Crises Across Two Continents, Mark Beissinger and Crawford Young 2. Convergence to Crisis - Pre-Independence State Legacies and Post-Independence State Breakdown in Africa and Eurasia, Mark Beissinger and Crawford Young. Part II Sovereignty, Violence, and War: 3. At the Edge of the World - Boundaries, Territoriality, and Sovereignty, Achille Mbembe 4. Who is Strong When the State is Weak? - Violent Entreprenuership in Russia's Emerging Markets, Vadim Volkov 5. Mafiya Trouble, Warlord Crises, Will Reno 6. Weak State and Private Armies, Charles Fairbanks 7. Civil Wars and State-Building in Africa and Eurasia, David Holloway and Stephen Stedman 8. The Effects of Interstate Crisis on African Interstate Relations (With Eurasian Comparisons), Donald Rothchild. Part III Democratization and Political Economy: 9. Russia - Unconsolidated Democracy, Creeping Authoritarianism, or Unresolved Stagnation? Lilia Shevtsova 10. War, State Making, and Democratization in Africa, Richard Joseph 11. The East Goes South - International Aid and the Production of Convergence in Africa and Eurasia, Peter J. Stavrakis 12. Economic Reform and the Discourse of Democracy in Africa - Resolving the Contradictions, Peter M. Lewis. Part IV State and Society: 13. Accomodating Ethnic Differences in Post-Soviet Eurasia, Gail W. Lapidus 14. Beyond Cultural Domination - Institutionalizing Equity in the African State, Francis M. Deng 15. Women and Political Change in Eurasia and Africa, Aili Mari Tripp. Part V Beyond State Crisis?: 16. Putting the State Back Together in Post-Soviet Georgia, Ghia Nodia 17. After the Fall - State Rehabilitation in Uganda, Crawford Young 18. Transcending the Crisis of the State in Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia - Hopeless Chimera or Possible Dream?, Mark Beissinger and Crawford Young.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define and clarify the concept of international delegation from both a legal and social science perspective, and identify eight types of authority that states may grant: legislative, adjudicative, regulatory, monitoring and enforcement, agenda-setting, research and advice, policy implementation, and re-delegation.
Abstract: This article defines and clarifies the concept of international delegation from both a legal and social science perspective. An international delegation, the article explains, involves a grant of authority by two or more states to an international body to make decisions or take actions. After defending this definition, the article describes the types of international bodies to which states may grant authority. To capture the multilayered nature of international delegation, the article considers grants of authority not only to bureaucracies, but also to collective bodies, sub-groups of states, and courts. The article then identifies eight types of authority that states may grant: legislative, adjudicative, regulatory, monitoring and enforcement, agenda-setting, research and advice, policy implementation, and re-delegation. Next, the article discusses how the extent of an international delegation can vary depending on its legal effect and the degree of independence of the international body. The article then considers some of the benefits and costs of international delegation in light of this typology. The article concludes with a discussion of some of the questions raised by the typology and its implications for further research.
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TL;DR: For example, the authors argues that China's industries will be exposed to crippling competition, farmers will be hurt by the import of cheap (and better quality) foreign wheat and corn, and China as a nation will become entangled in a global capitalist network that will erode the country's sovereignty and, in the worst case scenario, reduce China to an “appendage” of the West, particularly the United States.
Abstract: There is no topic that is more hotly debated in China and more important to the country's future than the anticipated accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). After 13 years of efforts to achieve membership in the world trade body, the United States and China finally reached agreement in November 1999; shortly thereafter the European Union and China came to agreement and negotiations moved on to Geneva where a working party is expected to formulate a protocol of accession that will allow China to enter the WTO by late 2001. Ironically, after years of fuming that the West was trying to keep China out of the trade body, the prospect of actually joining has set off a flurry of speculation over the impact on China's economy and many have begun questioning the benefits of membership. Many worry that China's industries will be exposed to crippling competition, that farmers will be hurt by the import of cheap (and better quality) foreign wheat and corn, and that China as a nation will become entangled in a global capitalist network that will erode the country's sovereignty and, in the worst case scenario, reduce China to an “appendage” of the West, particularly the United States.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the relationship between food self-sufficiency and labor sovereignty in the process of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and concluded that food selfsufficiency is a condition for a country to enjoy "labor sovereignty", the ability of each nation to provide with living wages for a vast majority of the population.
Abstract: This article explores the way in which Mexico's countryside was affected by the country's economic integration to its northern neighbors since the start of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Mexico's political technocracy placed its bet for economic growth on the comparative advantage of cheap labor, a losing bet: Mexico's asymmetrical integration into the North American economy, combined with neoliberalism, had a detrimental impact on its food self-sufficiency, its labor sovereignty, and substantially increased its out-migration rates. The article explores the relationship between food self-sufficiency and labor sovereignty in this process. The main thesis is that food self-sufficiency is a condition for a country to enjoy “labor sovereignty”—the ability of each nation to provide with living wages for a vast majority of the population. Of the three NAFTA nations, Mexico is the least self-sufficient, and hence the one that expels the largest rate of migrants.
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TL;DR: The World Trade Organization, a target of the critics of globalization, should be seen as a welcome extension of the rule of law to the international arena and a counterweight to unilateralism as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Economic globalization is reducing the significance of state boundaries. We have a global economy but lack the institutions necessary for a global polity. Unilateral action by a would–be hegemon is untenable in the long term and hence there is a need to discuss our institutions of global governance. The benefits and costs of globalization have been distributed asymmetrically, placing poor people in poor countries at a disadvantage, especially as regards the free movement of low–skilled labour and the creation of intellectual property rights. The World Trade Organization, a target of the critics of globalization, should be seen as a welcome extension of the rule of law to the international arena and a counterweight to unilateralism. More generally, global economic liberalism should be balanced by institutions which provide global public goods and international mechanisms to finance them. All of this implies a further weakening of state sovereignty and a need to ensure that global institutions are democratic and can be held accountable to people worldwide for their performance.
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