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International law and domestic institutions: reconciling North American “unfair” trade laws

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Judith Goldstein
Judith Goldstein
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Associate Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, Stanford, California.
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Abstract

While scholars have written much about the role played by international institutions in cooperative behavior among nations, they have not examined the domestic political motives that may lie behind nations' decisions to join such organizations. Two-level games analysis provides a framework for studying domestic politics not as a constraint upon nations that enter into international agreements but as a catalyst for nations to enter into agreements. The dispute settlement procedures of the North American Free Trade Agreement and its predecessor, the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, offer an empirical illustration of this point.

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International Organization , Volume 50 , Issue 4 , Autumn 1996 , pp. 541 - 564
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1996

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