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| Author: | Spruyt, H. |
| Title: | Institutional selection in international relations: state anarchy as order |
| Journal: | International Organization
1994 : AUTUMN, VOL. 48:4, p. 527-558 |
| Index terms: | ANARCHISM INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | By the end of the medieval era, three new competing institutions attempted to capture gains from trade and reduce feudal particularism: sovereign territorial states, city-leagues, and city-states. By the middle of the seventeenth century, city-leagues and city-states had declined markedly. Territorial states survived because they were able to reduce free riding, lower transaction costs, and credibly commit their constituents. The selection process took place along three dimensions. |
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