This working paper was presented at the international workshop "Game Theory in International Relations at 50", organized and coordinated by Professor Jacint Jordana and Dr. Yannis Karagiannis at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals on May 22, 2009. The day-long Workshop was inspired...

Looking at a random sample of international agreements across the issues areas of economics, environment, human rights, and security, it is striking that human rights agreements (HRAs) are significantly more likely to be imprecise than agreements in any other issue area. Is that because HRAs are...