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And Fortune Fled

Drawing on recent deconstructions in anthropology, postcolonial studies, and critical sociology, this book situates and explores the phenomenon of international knowledge transfers within the context of globalization.

Traces the processes by which national elections became international events and the effects of this process on foreign sovereignty. This book views that the study of International Election Monitoring does not only belong to the study of purely domestic politics or of foreign policy. It shows how sovereignty has been partially transformed by IEM.

Examines different levels of narcotics control cooperation between the United States, Mexico and Colombia. This book finds that Mexico is consistently held to a very different standard than Colombia. It also explores the role of domestic terrorism and presidential reputation in Colombia for the US-Colombia pair.

Examining the 1991 uprisings in Iraq, this book demonstrates how external intervention by the UN and other actors in ethnic conflicts has contributed to the problems with democratization experienced in the post-Saddam era.

A documentation of the bureaucratic and philosophical absurdities, this book explores UN bureaucracy and the development dysfunction in four 'most different' African countries. It shows the journey of the author from ardent defender of the UN to profound sceptic.

In order to illuminate the interplay between national and international levels of analysis, this dissertation research addresses long-term patterns of human rights abuse in Cuba, El Salvador and Nicaragua, from the late 1960s and 70s to 2003.

A book about how global unionism was born in the maritime shipping sector. It argues that the industrial structure of shipping, and specifically the interconnected nature of shipping production chains, facilitated the globalization of union bargaining strategy, and the transnationalization of union structures for mobilizing industrial action.

This book links theoretical studies to empirical evidence and constitutes a comprehensive appreciation of bargaining by comparing integrative and distributive bargaining in the context of the European fisheries policy.