Handbook on the Politics of International Agreements

Part I: Introduction

- The paradox of international order: agreements in an age of fracture - Siniša Vuković and P. Terrence Hopmann

Part II: Types of agreements

1. The politics of agreements on arms control and disarmament - P. Terrence Hopmann

2. Alliance treaties: writing the terms of military cooperation - Paul Poast and Hope Dancy

3. Ceasefires and security arrangements - Govinda Clayton and Irena Grizelj

4. Bilateral agreements between states: border delimitation agreements - Andrew P. Owsiak and Douglas B. Atkinson

5. Environmental agreements - Lynn Wagner

6. On the politics of preferential trade agreements - Giovanna Maria Dora Dore

7. Business and commercial agreements - Meherun Nesa and Molly M. Melin

8. Political agreements and international legal issues - Catherine Turner

9. Agreements on normalisation and statehood - Gëzim Visoka

10. International agreements against corruption and transnational organized crime - Bertram I. Spector

11. From frontlines to firewalls: cybersecurity and international security cooperation - Emily Otto and Melissa K. Griffith

Part III: Impact of negotiation process and structures on agreements

12. The politics of process design in peace negotiations and mediation - Julia Palmiano Federer, Sara Hellmüller and Eemeli Isoaho

13. The role of turning points on international agreements - Daniel Druckman and Mara Olekalns

14. The impact of Track Two diplomacy on international agreements - Peter Jones

15. Informal multilateral associations and their agreements - Pamela Aall and Chester A. Crocker

16. Minilateralism - Susan Hannah Allen and Amy T. Yuen

17. The role of justice in negotiations - I. William Zartman

18. The Russia-Ukraine War: asymmetry, levels of power, and the Minsk - Lise Morjé Howard

Part IV: The politics of international peace agreements

19. Where have all the peace agreements gone? On the decline of intra-state peace agreements - Isak Svensson

20. Mediated peace agreements - Siniša Vuković

21. Neutral mediation in pursuit of international agreements - Liliane Stadler

22. Partial agreements - Julián Arévalo and Andrés García Trujillo

23. The impact of human rights on international peace agreements - Katarian Månsson

24. Women's participation and gender provisions in peacemaking - Jenna Sapiano and Allison Kielhold

25. Impact of civil society on peace agreements - Désirée Nilsson

26. Power sharing: the promises, paradoxes and perils of power sharing in peace agreements - Timothy D. Sisk

27. The future of peace agreements: how AI changes everything (or does it?) - Valerie Sticher

Part V: Politics of post-peace agreement implementation

28. Post-agreement reconciliation - Valérie Rosoux

29. 2016 Colombian peace accord: inclusion, design and implementation - Josefina Echavarría Álvarez, Allison Kielhold, and Cristina Sáez Flórez

30. Exploring the diversity of non-Western approaches to peacebuilding, conflict management, and the implementation of peace agreements - Kazushige Kobayashi

Part VI: Core themes in contemporary studies of negotiated agreements

31. Identitarian movements and negotiated agreements: the impact of nationalism, ethnicity, and populism on global governance - Barbora Valík and Erin K. Jenne

32. The politics of epistemic communities in international agreements - Giuliano Espino

33. Epistemic communities: norms, diffusion, and impact on intergovernmental agreements - Daniel Serwer

34. The impact of norms on agreements: minority rights norms in successive agreements to resolve the Kosovo-Serbia conflict - Dana M. Landau

35. The paradox of agreements on humanitarian norms: how to agree on and enforce the responsibility to protect without harming the people the agreement aims to protect? - Timo Kivimäki