Secrets in Global Governance - Disclosure Dilemmas and the Challenge of International Cooperation

What makes international rules effective? Transparency provided by international organizations has been a common answer. This book offers multi-method evidence that equipping international organizations with secrecy, rather than transparency, can enhance cooperation in domains ranging from nuclear proliferation to trade to human rights.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Theory; 3. Sensitive Information in Global Governance: The Past and Present; 4. Nuclear Proliferation; 5. International Trade; 6. War Crimes; 7. Foreign Direct Investment; 8. Conclusion.

About the author

Allison Carnegie is Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. She is the author of Power Plays: How International Institutions Reshape Coercive Diplomacy (Cambridge University Press, 2015).Austin Carson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Secret Wars: Covert Conflict in International Politics (Princeton University Press, 2018).

Summary

What makes international rules effective? Transparency provided by international organizations has been a common answer. This book offers multi-method evidence that equipping international organizations with secrecy, rather than transparency, can enhance cooperation in domains ranging from nuclear proliferation to trade to human rights.

Product details

• Authors: ALLISON CARNEGIE, Allison Carnegie, Allison (Columbia University Carnegie, Carnegie Allison, Austin Carson, Austin (University of Chicago) Carson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781108745949
• ISBN: 978-1-108-74594-9
• No. of pages: 362
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Internati; Cambridge Studies in International Relations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, Political Economy, Public International Law