Contracting States: Sovereign Transfers in International Relations

by Hendrik Spruyt and Alexander Cooley

Increasingly today nation-states are entering into agreements that involve the sharing or surrendering of parts of their sovereign powers and often leave the cession of authority incomplete or vague. But until now, we have known surprisingly little about how international actors design and implement these mixed-sovereignty arrangements. Contracting States uses the concept of "incomplete contracts"--agreements that are intentionally ambiguous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691137242
• ISBN13: 9780691137247
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"