{"product_id":"power-in-concert-jennifer-mitzen-9780226060088","title":"Power in Concert: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Global Governance","description":"How states cooperate in the absence of a sovereign power is a perennial question in international relations. With \u003ci\u003ePower in Concert\u003c\/i\u003e, Jennifer Mitzen argues that global governance is more than just the cooperation of states under anarchy: it is the formation and maintenance of collective intentions, or joint commitments among states to address problems together. The key mechanism through which these intentions are sustained is face-to-face diplomacy, which keeps states' obligations to one another salient and helps them solve problems on a day-to-day basis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMitzen argues that the origins of this practice lie in the Concert of Europe, an informal agreement among five European states in the wake of the Napoleonic wars to reduce the possibility of recurrence, which first institutionalized the practice of jointly managing the balance of power. Through the Concert's many successes, she shows that the words and actions of state leaders in public forums contributed to collective self-restraint and a commitment to problem solving--and at a time when communication was considerably more difficult than it is today. Despite the Concert's eventual breakdown, the practice it introduced--of face to face diplomacy as a mode of joint problem solving--survived and is the basis of global governance today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Mitzen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022606008X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226060088\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2014 pg. 342","brand":"Jennifer Mitzen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086390374655,"sku":"9780226060088","price":104.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_be3f111b-bb9e-4090-a4aa-e563f532868e.jpg?v=1769094404","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/power-in-concert-jennifer-mitzen-9780226060088","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}