The authors use an innovative theoretical framework to analyze the factors that lead to institutional bargaining games. They show how institutional innovation and the use of linkages might alter such games. Their essays, published here for the first time, examine the development of the Financial Support Fund, the European Economic Area, institutional competition and conflict in the Bosnian crisis, and problems in the European Monetary System. They reveal the advantages for international cooperation of both parallel and substantive institutional reconciliation, and provide a model for understanding institution-building and modification beyond the European experience.
Contributors Vinod K. Aggarwal, University of California, Berkeley Benjamin J. Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara Beverly Crawford, University of California, Berkeley Cdric Dupont, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, Steven Weber, University of California, Berkeley
