Cooperation Under Anarchy

This path-breaking book offers fresh insights into a perennial problem. At times, the absence of centralized international authority precludes attainment of common goals. Yet, at other times, nations realize mutual interests through cooperation under anarchy. Drawing on a diverse set of historical cases in security and economic affairs, the contributors to this special issue of World Politics not only provide a unified explanation of the incidence of cooperation and conflict, but also suggest strategies to promote the emergence of cooperation.

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Kenneth A. Oye

Summary

This path-breaking book offers fresh insights into a perennial problem. At times, the absence of centralized international authority precludes attainment of common goals. Yet, at other times, nations realize mutual interests through cooperation under anarchy. Drawing on a diverse set of historical cases in security and economic affairs, the contrib

Product details

• Assisted by: Kenneth A. Oye (Editor)
• Authors: Kenneth A. Oye, Oye Kenneth A., Kenneth Oye
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 21.03.1986
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9780691022406
• ISBN: 978-0-691-02240-6
• Pages: 269
• Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Anarchism; Anarchism