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Interest, Principle, And Beyond: American Understandings Of Conflict, Don Herzog Jan 1993

Interest, Principle, And Beyond: American Understandings Of Conflict, Don Herzog

Book Chapters

To understand U.S. foreign policy, we need to understand the concepts and categories that Americans bring to bear. After all, we see the world through our concepts and categories. They identify what's possible, what's desirable, indeed what's visible in the first place. There is simply no possibility of junking all our concepts, stepping outside them, and gaining an unmediated grasp of the world. Here, I offer a sketch of American understandings of conflict. Understandings, not understanding: even in the realm of foreign policy, Americans have long brought intriguingly different categories to bear, categories whose richness isn't captured by some standard …


U.S. Bilateral Investment Treaties: The Second Wave, Kenneth J. Vandevelde Jan 1993

U.S. Bilateral Investment Treaties: The Second Wave, Kenneth J. Vandevelde

Michigan Journal of International Law

This Article describes and appraises the second wave of negotiations. It functions as a sequel to an earlier article that described the first ten years of the program. Although the second wave of negotiations continues, and thus any conclusions about it necessarily are tentative, the second wave already has developed a variety of characteristics that distinguish it from the first wave. The goal of this Article is to identify the ways in which the second wave appears to differ from the first and to assess the significance of the differences.