Comprehensive collection of original chapters by leading authors in the fieldUnusual in covering the whole of Asia-including Central and South Asia as well as Northeast and Southeast AsiaUp-to-date discussion of contemporary theorizing in international relations and its relevance to AsiaChapters on functional topics across the whole region, e.g., foreign direct investment, trade, territorial and maritime disputes, energy security, human rights, health security, alliances, regional architecture, as well as detailed consideration of the major countries in individual chapters

Why do institutions emerge, operate, evolve and persist? Institutional Choice and Global Commerce elaborates a theory of boundedly rational institutional choice that explains when states USE available institutions, SELECT among alternative forums, CHANGE existing rules, or CREATE new arrangements (USCC). The authors reveal the striking staying power of the institutional status quo and test their innovative theory against evidence on institutional choice in global commerce from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries.

Walter has recently written a blog on the topic of the book:

http://blog.oup.com/2014/10/international-arbitration-global-good-bad/

Since the mid-1990s the United Nations and other multilateral organizations have been entrusted with exceptional authority for the administration of war-torn and strife-ridden territories. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Eastern Slavonia, Kosovo, and East Timor these organizations have assumed responsibility for governance to a degree unprecedented in recent history. These initiatives represent some of the boldest experiments in the management and settlement of intra-state conflict ever attempted by third parties.

In the past two decades, states and multilateral organizations have devoted considerable resources toward efforts to stabilize peace and rebuild war-torn societies in places such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, and Sierra Leone. Despite these prodigious efforts, there has been relatively little consideration of the critical questions arising from the "end game" of state-building operations. In Exit Strategies and State Building, sixteen leading scholars and practitioners focus on relevant historical and contemporary cases of exit to provide a comprehensive overview of this crucial issue.