TY - BOOK ID - 9336900 TI - Theories of international cooperation and the primacy of anarchy : explaining U.S. international policy-making after Bretton Woods AU - Sterling-Folker, Jennifer Anne AU - United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (1944 : Bretton Woods, N.H.) PY - 2002 SN - 0791452077 0791489426 0585441413 9780585441412 9780791452073 0791452085 9780791452080 9780791489420 9780791489420 PB - Albany: State university of New York press, DB - UniCat KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Public Policy / Economic Policy KW - Money KW - Finance KW - Business & Economics KW - Monetary policy KW - Economic policy KW - International cooperation. KW - International agencies. KW - United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference KW - United States KW - Foreign economic relations. KW - Associations, International KW - IGOs (Intergovernmental organizations) KW - Institutions, International KW - Intergovernmental organizations KW - International administration KW - International associations KW - International governmental organizations KW - International institutions KW - International organizations KW - International unions KW - Organizations, International KW - Specialized agencies of the United Nations KW - Cooperation, International KW - Global governance KW - Interdependence of nations KW - World order KW - Bretton Woods Conference KW - Conférence monétaire et financière des Nations Unies, KW - Conferencia Monetaria Internacional de Bretton-Woods KW - Conferencia Monetaria y Financiera de las Naciones Unidos KW - Monetary and Financial Conference, United Nations KW - Rengōkoku Tsūka Kinʼyū Kaigi KW - United Nations Monetary & Financial Conference KW - United nations monetary and financial conference, KW - International cooperation KW - Interorganizational relations KW - Non-state actors (International relations) KW - International organization KW - Cooperation KW - International relations KW - Inter-governmental organizations KW - International Cooperation KW - International agencies KW - Foreign economic relations KW - Monetary policy - United States KW - Economic policy - International cooperation KW - United States - Foreign economic relations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9336900 AB - Argues the state and not markets should be the center of analysis when attempting to explain international cooperation.Challenging the standard liberal explanations for international cooperation in the field of international relations, this book contends that despite numerous efforts and the passage of time, our understanding of the cooperative phenomenon remains woefully inadequate. Sterling-Folker argues that widespread explanatory reliance on what constitutes functionally efficient choices in global interdependence is deductively illogical and empirically unsound. The author's approach for explaining international cooperation is comprised of realist and constructivist insights and places the state, rather than the market, at the center of analysis. A thorough examination of Post-Bretton Woods American monetary policy-making reveals the fundamental flaws of traditional explanations and the superiority of a realist-constructivist alternative to the cooperative phenomenon.“We can no longer look upon either liberal cooperation or realism in quite the same way after this book. The exegesis on both of these theories is penetrating, insightful, and imaginative, while the empirical testing is appropriate and quite conclusive. Anyone who wishes to enter into the theoretical conversation in contemporary international relations must read this book.” — Donald J. Puchala, University of South Carolina.“Sterling-Folker offers a simply breathtaking account of the flaws inherent in liberal international theory, and how realism is superior as a theory of cooperation. This book will become a major focal point in contemporary scholarly debate about the political consequences of international economic interdependence, and it may play a role in United States policy debate concerning countries such as China as well.” — Joseph M. Grieco, Duke University. ER -