| List of Tables and Figures | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| 1 | Introduction | 3 |
| 2 | Actors' Interests, Policy Preferences, and the Demand for International Cooperation | 33 |
| 3 | A Model of the Two-Level Game | 67 |
| 4 | Political Institutions and International Cooperation | 99 |
| 5 | The Bretton Woods Monetary Agreement and the International Trade Organization, 1943-1950 | 135 |
| 6 | The Anglo-American Oil Agreement and the International Civil Aviation Agreement, 1943-1947 | 158 |
| 7 | The European Coal and Steel Community and the European Defense Community, 1950-1954 | 179 |
| 8 | The North American Free Trade Agreement and the Maastricht Treaty on European Monetary Union, 1989-1993 | 203 |
| 9 | Conclusions | 233 |
| Appendix | 263 |
| Bibliography | 275 |
| Index | 293 |