Secrets in Global Governance

Disclosure Dilemmas and the Challenge of International Cooperation

Allison Carnegie, Austin Carson (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

362 Seiten

2020
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-74594-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Scholars have long argued that transparency makes international rule violations more visible and improves outcomes. Secrets in Global Governance revises this claim to show how equipping international organizations (IOs) with secrecy can be a critical tool for eliciting sensitive information and increasing cooperation. States are often deterred from disclosing information about violations of international rules by concerns of revealing commercially sensitive economic information or the sources and methods used to collect intelligence. IOs equipped with effective confidentiality systems can analyze and act on sensitive information while preventing its wide release. Carnegie and Carson use statistical analyses of new data, elite interviews, and archival research to test this argument in domains across international relations, including nuclear proliferation, international trade, justice for war crimes, and foreign direct investment. Secrets in Global Governance brings a groundbreaking new perspective to the literature of international relations.

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).

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	31.12.2019
Reihe/Serie	Cambridge Studies in International Relations
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises; 13 Tables, black and white; 18 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 228 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-108-74594-6 / 1108745946
ISBN-13	978-1-108-74594-9 / 9781108745949
Zustand	Neuware