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This Handbook presents a nuanced exploration of international agreements, proposing that they are fundamentally political endeavors. It argues that agreements are born from mixed-motive situations, the crucial space where parties have both overlapping goals and conflicting interests.
Drawing on practical insights and evidence-based analysis, expert contributors assess how international agreements can create a durable framework to advance shared objectives while managing the divergent values that could otherwise sabotage cooperation. They evaluate formal treaties, informal understandings and global and intra-state deals from various sectors, including environmental, ceasefire, security, business and commercial agreements. Featuring a diverse range of perspectives, the Handbook integrates multiple cultural and disciplinary paradigms to better understand how agreements function in our complex global order.
The Handbook on the Politics of International Agreements is a crucial resource for scholars and students of international relations, international law, politics and public policy and conflict resolution. Diplomats, policymakers and practitioners in international law will also benefit from its deep understanding of the dynamics behind international agreements.
Contents
Contents
PART I INTRODUCTION
Introduction: the paradox of international order: agreements in an age of fracture 2
Siniša Vuković and P. Terrence Hopmann
PART II TYPES OF AGREEMENTS
1 The politics of agreements on arms control and disarmament 10
P. Terrence Hopmann
2 Alliance treaties: writing the terms of military cooperation 36
Paul Poast and Hope Dancy
3 Ceasefires and security arrangements 49
Govinda Clayton and Irena Grizelj
4 Bilateral agreements between states: border delimitation agreements 62
Andrew P. Owsiak and Douglas B. Atkinson
5 Environmental agreements 82
Lynn Wagner
6 On the politics of preferential trade agreements 96
Giovanna Maria Dora Dore
7 Business and commercial agreements 108
Meherun Nesa and Molly M. Melin
8 Political agreements and international legal issues 124
Catherine Turner
9 Agreements on normalisation and statehood 139
Gëzim Visoka
10 International agreements against corruption and transnational organized crime 158
Bertram I. Spector
11 From frontlines to firewalls: cybersecurity and international security cooperation 169
Emily Otto and Melissa K. Griffith
PART III IMPACT OF NEGOTIATION PROCESS AND STRUCTURES ON AGREEMENTS
12 The politics of process design in peace negotiations and mediation 185
Julia Palmiano Federer, Sara Hellmüller and Eemeli Isoaho
13 The role of turning points in international agreements 197
Daniel Druckman and Mara Olekalns
14 The impact of Track Two diplomacy on international agreements 215
Peter Jones
15 Informal multilateral associations and their agreements 230
Pamela Aall and Chester A. Crocker
16 Minilateralism 242
Susan Hannah Allen and Amy T. Yuen
17 The role of justice in negotiations 259
I. William Zartman
18 The Russia-Ukraine War: asymmetry, levels of power, and the Minsk Accords 268
Lise Morjé Howard
PART IV THE POLITICS OF INTERNATIONAL PEACE AGREEMENTS
19 Where have all the peace agreements gone? On the decline of intra-state peace agreements 291
Isak Svensson
20 Mediated peace agreements 304
Siniša Vuković
21 Neutral mediation in pursuit of international agreements 325
Liliane Stadler
22 Partial agreements 339
Julián Arévalo and Andrés García Trujillo
23 The impact of human rights on international peace agreements 356
Katarina Månsson
24 Women's participation and gender provisions in peacemaking 369
Jenna Sapiano and Allison Kielhold
25 Impact of civil society on peace agreements 388
Desirée Nilsson
26 Power sharing: the promises, paradoxes and perils of power sharing in peace agreements 401
Timothy D. Sisk
27 The future of peace agreements: how AI changes everything (or does it?) 414
Valerie Sticher
PART V POLITICS OF POST-PEACE AGREEMENT IMPLEMENTATION
28 Post-agreement reconciliation 427
Valérie Rosoux
29 2016 Colombian peace accord: inclusion, design and implementation 442
Josefina Echavarría Álvarez, Allison Kielhold and Cristian Sáez Flórez
30 Exploring the diversity of non-Western approaches to peacebuilding, conflict management, and the implementation of peace agreements 467
Kazushige Kobayashi
PART VI CORE THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY STUDIES OF NEGOTIATED AGREEMENTS
31 Identitarian movements and negotiated agreements: the impact of nationalism, ethnicity, and populism on global governance 483
Barbora Valík and Erin K. Jenne
32 The politics of epistemic communities in international agreements 501
Giuliano Espino
33 Epistemic communities: norms, diffusion, and impact on intergovernmental agreements 516
Daniel Serwer
34 The impact of norms on agreements: minority rights norms in successive agreements to resolve the Kosovo-Serbia conflict 526
Dana M. Landau
35 The paradox of agreements on humanitarian norms: how to agree on and enforce the responsibility to protect without harming the people the agreement aims to protect? 540
Timo Kivimäki
