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IO Mediation of Interstate Conflicts: Moving Beyond the Global vs. Regional Dichotomy
2008
DOI: 10.17077/h9xt-l294
Abstract
Regional and global intergovernmental organizations have grown both in number and scope, yet their role and effectiveness as conflict managers is not fully understood. Previous research efforts tend to categorize organizations solely by the scope of their membership, which obscures important sources of variation in institutional design at both the regional and global levels. International organizations will be more successful conflict managers if they are highly institutionalized, if they have members with homogeneous preferences, and if they have more established democratic members. These hypotheses are evaluated with data on territorial (1816-2001), maritime (1900-2001), and river (1900-2001) claims from the Issue Correlates of War (ICOW) project in the Western Hemisphere, Europe, and the Middle East. Empirical analysis suggests that international organizations are more likely to help disputing parties reach an agreement if they have more democratic members, if they are highly institutionalized, and when they use binding management techniques.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- IO Mediation of Interstate Conflicts: Moving Beyond the Global vs. Regional Dichotomy
- Creators
- Holley Hansen - University of IowaSara McLaughlin Mitchell - University of IowaStephen C. Nemeth - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Accepted manuscript
- DOI
- 10.17077/h9xt-l294
- Number of pages
- 40 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2008 Sage Publications. Used by permission.
- Grant note
- This research was supported by National Science Foundation grants SES-0079421 and SES-0214447.
- Comment
We thank Mark Crescenzi, Terry Chapman, and David Lake for useful comments on an earlier draft. Data and replication files can be accessed at: http://jcr.sagepub.com.
- Language
- English
- Date copyrighted
- 2008
- Date posted
- 01/06/2009
- Academic Unit
- Political Science; Public Policy Center (Archive); Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9983557684902771
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