Cutting the Gordian Knot of Economic Reform: When and How International Institutions Help

by Johannes Urpelainen and Leonardo Baccini

Why do leaders of countries opt to sign on to international institutions that constrain their freedom to enact domestic policy? In this book, Leonardo Baccini and Johannes Urpelainen address this enduring question of international relations by looking at liberal economic reforms.

During the past two decades, governments across the developing world have implemented many liberal economic reforms that reduce direct state intervention in different...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199388997
• ISBN13: 9780199388998
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"