Domestic Constraints and the Breakdown of International Agreements

by Jeffrey S. Lantis

This book explores how elite commitments to cooperate with international organizations can be supplanted by domestic political constraints. It contends that the most popular explanation for defections from international commitments in the foreign policy analysis literature, the two-level game model presented by Robert Putnam, does not fully account for surprising defections from agreements. A new framework is presented which interprets international...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275959481
• ISBN13: 9780275959487
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"