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a unifying theme for domestic and international politics
"This book challenges mainstream scholarly literature which has argued that we cannot develop meaningful analogies between domestic and international politics. It shows that there are important parallels across these two realms, however, only if we compare political interactions among states over the past two centuries to those within states, going back about one thousand years. It focuses specifically on the evolution of institutions that restrain concentrated power, such as courts, assemblies, or bureaucracies. In doing so, the book complements the literature's traditional emphasis on efforts to acquire power with a “Lockean” approach emphasizing restraints on power. The first chapters develop a set of theoretical arguments about the emergence, change, and consolidation of institutional restraints on power. These are primarily derived from literature focusing on domestic politics going back to events such as those involving the Magna Carta or the Curia Regis in England, and the Estates General or Parlement in France. The empirical chapters assess the relevance of such arguments for explaining the evolution of numerous intergovernmental organizations: international courts, such as the Permanent Court of Arbitration, International Court of Justice, and International Criminal Court; international assemblies and parliaments such as the League of Nations' Assembly, UN General Assembly, and European Parliament; and international secretariats such as those of Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine, UN, and World Bank. The similarities between developments in the domestic and international realms lead to several important conclusions about future expectations for international institutions and, more broadly, for world politics"--Publisher's description.
Cover -- Title -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The main question and argument driving this study -- The main question and argument -- Comparing domestic and international politics -- The timeframes for the comparison -- Comparing groups of actors rather than actors -- Placing the main question and argument in the broader literature -- Structure of the book -- 2 The existing literature and a first set of arguments -- Political theory literature on fear of concentrated power and on institutional restraints within states -- The comparative politics literature and other work on early domestic institutional power restraints -- Liberalism in IR and its lack of emphasis on power restraints -- Other IR literature on power restraints in the international realm -- A first set of arguments: the nature of institutional restraints (the "outcome variable'') -- A second set of arguments: groups of actors and their preferences for institutional restraints -- 3 The evolution of domestic institutional restraints and additional expectations for IR -- The evolution of domestic judiciaries as institutional restraints on power -- The evolution of domestic consultative and legislative assemblies as institutional restraints on power -- The evolution of institutional restraints on power involving national government bureaucracies -- The empowerment of bureaucracies -- Restraining the power of bureaucracies -- Support for main arguments and further expectations for the international realm -- Assessing the argument regarding the nature of institutional restraints on concentrated power -- Assessing the arguments regarding the main groups and their preferences -- Assessing the arguments regarding the evolution of institutional restraints on concentrated power.
Additional arguments involving the evolution of institutional restraints on concentrated power -- 4 International laws and courts as institutional restraints -- The emergence of international legal norms and laws as tools for great powers -- The emergence of the first IGOs as incipient forms of rule-based institutional restraints -- The PCA: a first major change to the international judicial restraints on power -- The PCIJ and ICJ: more changes to, and consolidation of, international institutional restraints -- The ICC and other Post-Cold War courts: further consolidating international institutional restraints -- Conclusions: comparing the evolution of international laws and courts to domestic developments -- What types of international institutional restraints developed? -- Who supported or opposed the institutional restraints? -- How (and why) did international institutional restraints emerge and evolve? -- 5 International assemblies and parliaments as institutional restraints -- The first intergovernmental assemblies and the Interparliamentary Union -- The League of Nations: a first major change to the international assemblies as power restraints -- The UNGA: more changes to, and consolidation of, restraints through international assemblies -- The European Parliament and the spread of IGO parliamentary assemblies: further change and consolidation of international institutional restraints -- Conclusions: comparing the evolution of international assemblies and parliaments to domestic developments -- What types of international institutional restraints developed? -- Who supported or opposed the institutional restraints? -- How (and why) did international institutional restraints emerge and evolve? -- 6 International secretariats as institutional restraints -- The emergence of the first IGO secretariats in the nineteenth century.
The League and ILO: change in the autonomy of international secretariats -- The UN: the erosion and then consolidation of international institutional restraints -- Post-Cold War developments: restraints on international secretariats -- Conclusions: comparing the evolution of IGO secretariats to domestic government bureaucracies -- What types of international institutional restraints developed? -- Who supported or opposed the institutional restraints? -- How (and why) did international institutional restraints emerge and evolve? -- 7 Summing up -- Support for arguments A1-A6 in the empirical chapters -- The nature of international institutional restraints (assessing A1) -- The positions and roles of the four groups (assessing A2, A3, A4, and A5) -- The three phases in the evolution of international institutional restraints (assessing A6) -- Potential methodological difficulties in assessing the arguments -- The three forms of institutionalism -- Rational choice institutionalism -- Sociological institutionalism -- Historical institutionalism -- Differences in evolution of institutional restraints in the domestic and international realms -- The literature on differences between dynamics in the two realms -- Causes for different timeframes in the evolution of institutional restraints on power -- Implications of the findings -- Practical implications -- Implications for the International Relations and Comparative Politics literatures -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]