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Nonreciprocal Trade Agreements and Trade: Does the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Increase Trade?
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International Studies Perspectives. Feb2011, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p46-67. 22p. 5 Charts.
Abstract: The recent proliferation of preferential trade agreements, reaching almost 400 in number, has made it increasingly important to determine their effects on trade flows. This study advances our understanding of the effect of a particular type of trade ag...
Quaint and Obsolete: The 'War on Terror' and the Right to Legal Personality.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International Studies Perspectives. Aug2013, Vol. 14 Issue 3, p255-268. 14p.
Abstract: In the 'war on terror,' the Bush administration sought to delegitimize international human rights law (IHRL), international humanitarian law (IHL), and customary law by claiming that they were 'quaint' and 'obsolete' in the face of the threat from al Q...
Perfect Allies? The Case of Iraq and Al Qaeda.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International Studies Perspectives. Aug2007, Vol. 8 Issue 3, p272-286. 15p.
Abstract: Four years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, many scholars and policy makers concluded that an alliance between Iraq and al Qaeda did not exist. Yet the absence of this alliance raises a puzzle: Given their mutual interest in opposing U.S. hegemony in ...
Culture or Commerce? A Comparative Assessment of International Interactions and Developing Countries at UNESCO, WTO, and Beyond.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International Studies Perspectives. Feb2007, Vol. 8 Issue 1, p36-53. 18p. 5 Charts.
Abstract: Does international trade in cultural products threaten cultural diversity in the developing world? This article seeks to question the implied correlation by exploring the intellectual and empirical bases of the claims. Conceptually, I argue that cultur...
The Unintended Consequences of Information Provision: The World Health Organization and Border Restrictions during COVID-19.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International studies perspectives [Int Stud Perspect] 2022 Sep 21; Vol. 24 (1), pp. 39-66. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Sep 21 (Print Publication: 2023).
Abstract: Why do some international agreements fail to achieve their goals? Rather than states' engaging in cheap talk, evasion, or shallow commitments, the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Health Regulations (IHR)-the agreement governing states' ...
Openings in the wall: transnational migrants, labor unions, and U.S. immigration policy.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International organization [Int Organ] 1995 Spring; Vol. 49 (2), pp. 285-313.
Abstract: "This article seeks to enhance our understanding of why the United States resisted restrictionist [immigration] legislation in the late twentieth century during times when one may have expected a movement toward closure, as occurred in the 1920s.... Th...
Matching humanitarian norms with cold, hard interests: the making of refugee policies in Mexico and Honduras, 1980-89.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International organization [Int Organ] 1992 Summer; Vol. 46 (3), pp. 709-30.
No vacancy: the political geography of immigration control in advanced industrial countries.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International organization [Int Organ] 1997 Autumn; Vol. 51 (4), pp. 685-720.