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Title: Knowledge, Power, and International Policy Coordination (Studies in International Relations (Paper)) by Peter M. Haas ISBN: 1-57003-089-8 Publisher: University of South Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Summary: Excellent academic resource
Comment: The book discusses the role that knowledge-based experts, otherwise known as "epistemic communities", play in international policy coordination. They argue that "control over knowledge and information is an important dimension of power and that the diffusion of new ideas and information can lead to new patterns of behavior and prove to be an important determinant of international policy coordination." The first chapter defines what epistemic communities are, how they can be distinguished from other interest groups and the role that they play in helping to identify state interests and formulate policy. In the following chapters, the concept is applied to a diverse range of policy areas to illustrate how the communities affected international coordination. Trade in services, nuclear arms control, whaling, ozone negotiations, food aid, international financial standards, and the American post-war settlement are the policy areas covered. The book is an excellent academic resource if you are interested in epistemic communities, or alternative analysis for international policy coordination, or even if you are just interested in the particular case studies presented. Each case study is a meticulous presentation of historical developments and analysis for the particular policy area. They provide a wealth of information that is extremely useful for understanding the particular policy area, even if you are not particularly interested in the concept of epistemic communities.

A word of warning though, if you are not a political scientist or an international relations theorist, this book can be extremely heavy going in parts. Technical jargon abounds, particularly in the first and last chapters. As an example, "the contributers ... shake orthodoxy by challenging Kantian ontology, correspondence theories of truth and related positivistic claims"(in the preface); and "epistomologically, the world and our representation of it are not isomorphic." Fortunately, the case studies are much more understandable and keep away from the jargon.

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