Secrets in Global Governance by Allison Carnegie, Austin Carson - 9781108745949

Secrets in Global GovernanceDisclosure Dilemmas and the Challenge of International Cooperation\nAuthor(s): Allison Carnegie, Austin Carson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108745949, 978-1108745949\nSynopsis\nScholars have long argued that transparency makes international rule violations more visible and improves outcomes. Secrets in Global Governance revises this claim to show how equipping international organizations (IOs) with secrecy can be a critical tool for eliciting sensitive information and increasing cooperation. States are often deterred from disclosing information about violations of international rules by concerns of revealing commercially sensitive economic information or the sources and methods used to collect intelligence. IOs equipped with effective confidentiality systems can analyze and act on sensitive information while preventing its wide release. Carnegie and Carson use s.