Chapter 12: Transnational Policy Problems

Annotated Internet References

The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs (www.carnegiecouncil.org) focuses on human rights, military conflict, environmental issues, economic disparities, and political reconciliation in war-torn areas. Scholars at the Carnegie Council produce research briefs and books regarding current topics that analyze the ethics of international relations and the U.S. role in these policy issues. The Carnegie Council produces a number of publications, including the journal Ethics and International Affairs, much of which is available online through the link to “publications” on its home page.

 

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (www.ceip.org) is a private, nonprofit, and nonpartisan organization that focuses on global change by examining international organizations, bilateral relations, and political-economic forces in the world. The organization devotes specific attention to U.S.-Russian relationships as well as the geopolitics of the United States and other countries. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is also responsible for publishing Foreign Policy (www.foreignpolicy.com), one of the leading magazines for discussing world politics and foreign policy.

 

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (www.epa.gov) is the lead government agency vested with domestic pollution and environmental issues. The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency is to protect human health and the environment. Since 1970, EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people.

 

Foreign Policy in Focus (www.fpif.org) is a “think tank without walls” that emphasizes citizen-based foreign-policy issues. FPIF researchers compose short policy briefs on U.S. foreign-policy issues and global involvement such as trade, energy, environment, security, human rights, and labor. Much of the focus in their work is on the connection between private actors and the government.

 

Freedom House (www.freedomhouse.org) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization committed to promoting and understanding civil and political freedoms around the world. The organization conducts research at the national, regional, and global levels of analysis. Many of its publications, including Freedom in the World, which uses an ordinal scale to measure civil and political freedoms, are available on the Freedom House Web site.

 

The Global Policy Forum (www.globalpolicy.org) integrates information and research on globalization, security issues, and the United Nations. Resources on the GPF Web site focus on UN and state accountability, issues of sovereignty, questions of empire, and the crisis in Iraq.

 

The Institute for Global Communications (www.igc.org) is a network for NGOs to discuss, promote, and influence transnational policies. Subject areas on the IGC Web site include human rights, peace promotion, environmental protection, women’s rights, and workers’ rights, found through the portals of four central networks: PeaceNet, AntiRacismNet, WomensNet, and EcoNet.

 

The NGO Global Network (www.ngo.org) tracks and analyzes NGOs with consultative status with the United Nations. The organization’s Web site has links to NGOs around the globe organized by their missions and categories of operation.

 

U.S. Public Interest Research Group (www.uspirg.org) is a nonpartisan research group that serves state PIRGs by lobbying and researching large-scale policy issues. Areas of focus on the group’s Web site include environment, energy, democratic governance, and health care. Research reviews and policy reports as well as congressional and presidential “score-cards” on multiple issues are also provided.

Suggested Readings Cited in Chapter 12

Bamberger, Robert. 2003. “Energy Policy: Historical Overview, Conceptual Framework, and Continuing Issues.” Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, January 30. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service.

 

Barnett, Michael, and Martha Finnemore. 2004. Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

 

Carothers, Thomas. 1999. Aiding Democracy Abroad: The Learning Curve. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

 

Cincotta, Richard P., and Barbara B. Crane. 2001. “The Mexico City Policy and U.S. Family Planning Assistance.” Science 294 (5542): 525-526.

 

Fukuyama, Francis. 2004. State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

 

Galbraith, Jean. (2003) “The Bush Administration’s Response to the International Criminal Court.” Berkeley Journal of International Law 21 (3): 683–702.

 

Gallagher, Kelly Sims. 2002. “Bush’s Hot Air Plan.” Foreign Policy in Focus (February 19). Available www.fpif.org/commentary/2002/0202greenhouse_body.html.

 

Gonzalez, Franciso E., and Desmond King. 2004. “The State and Democratization: The United States in Comparative Perspective.” British Journal of Political Science 34 (April): 193–211.

 

Grimmett, Richard F. 2006. “U.S. Arms Sales: Agreements with and Deliveries to Major Clients, 1998-2005.” Congressional Research Service, Order Number RL33758.

 

Ignatieff, Michael, ed. 2005. American Exceptionalism and Human Rights. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

 

Kaul, Inge, Isabelle Grunberg, and Marc A. Stern, eds. 1999. Global Public Goods: International Cooperation in the 21st Century. New York: Oxford University Press.

 

Keller, William W., and Janne E. Nolan. 2001. “Mortgaging Security for Economic Gain: U.S. Arms Policy in an Insecure World.” International Studies Perspectives 2 (May): 177–193.

 

Klare, Michael. 2004. Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum. Metropolitan Books.

 

----. 2002. Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict. Metropolitan Books.

 

Kohut, Andrew, and Bruce Stokes. 2006. America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked. Times Books.

 

Kraft, Michael E. 2003. Environmental Policy and Politics, 3rd edition. Prentice Hall.

 

Mayerfield, Jamies. 2003. “Who Shall Be Judge? The United States, the International Criminal Court, and the Global Enforcement of Human Rights.” Human Rights Quarterly 25 (February): 93–129.

 

Mertus, Julie. 2004. Bait and Switch: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy. New York: Routledge.

 

Morse, Edward, and James Richard. 2002. “The Battle for Energy Dominance.” Foreign Affairs 81 (March–April): 16–31.

 

Nowels, Larry. 2005. “Foreign Aid: Understanding Data Used to Compare Donors.” Congressional Research Service, Order Number RS22032.

 

Parenti, Christian. 2003. The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror. Basic Books.

 

Passel, Jeffrey S. 2006. “The Size and Characteristics of the Unauthorized Migrant Population in the U.S.” Washington, D.C.: Pew Hispanic Center: pewhispanic.org/files/reports/61.pdf.

 

Prestowitz, Clyde. 2003. Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions. Perseus Press.

 

Razler, Karen, and William R. Thompson. 2005. Puzzles of the Democratic Peace: Theory, Geopolitics and the Transformation of World Politics. Palgrave MacMillan.

 

Yetiv, Steven A.  2004. Crude Awakenings:  Global Oil Security and American Foreign Policy.  Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press.

 

Zakaria, Fareed. 2004. The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad. New York: W. W. Norton.

Suggested Readings Following the Themes of Chapter 12

Axelrod, Regina S., David Leornard Downie, and Norman J. Vig, 2nd edition. 2004. The Global Environment: Institutions, Laws, and Policy. CQ Press.

 

Cox, Michael, et al., eds. 2000. American Democracy Promotion: Impulses, Strategies, and Impacts. Oxford University Press.

 

Fukuyama, Francis. 2004. State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century. Cornell University Press.

 

Kalicki, Jan H., and David L. Goldwyn. 2005. Energy and Security: Toward a New Foreign Policy Strategy. Johns Hopkins University Press.

 

Layzer, Judith A. 2005. The Environmental Case: Translating Values into Policy, 2nd edition. CQ Press.

 

Liang-Fenton, Debra, ed. 2004. Implementing U.S. Human Rights Policy: Agendas, Policies, and Practices. United States Institute of Peace Press.

 

Lumpe, Lora, ed. 2000. Running Guns: The Global Black Market in Small Arms. Zed Books.

 

Rabe, Barry George. 2004. Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Emerging Politics of American Climate Change Policy. Brookings Institution Press.

 

Roach, Steven C. 2006. Politicizing the International Criminal Court: The Convergence of Politics, Ethics, and Law. Rowman and Littlefield.

 

Rosenblum, Marc R. 2004. The Transnational Politics of U.S. Immigration Policy. Center for Comparative Immigration Studies.

 

Schulhofer, Stephen J. 2005. Rethinking the Patriot Act: Ideas for Reform. Century Foundation.

 

Sikkink, Kathryn. 2004. Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy And Latin America. Cornell University Press.

 

Simon, Christopher. 2006. Alternative Energy: Political, Economic, and Social Feasibility. Rowman and Littlefield.

 

Victor, David G. 2004. The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming. Princeton University Press.

 

Vig, Norman J., and Michael E. Kraft, eds. 2005. Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century. CQ Press.