Research

Interests

• international political economy
• international trade politics, law, and institutions; the World Trade Organization (WTO)

Publications

• Video and written testimony for U.S. Senate Finance Committee, Hearing on 'US Preference Programs: How Well Do They Work?', May 16, 2007
• Video of a presentation at the American Enterprise Institute, Jan 30, 2006 (with Marc Busch)

1. “International Institutions and the Volatility of International Trade,” International Organization 62:4 (Fall 2008), 621-652 (with Edward Mansfield).
2. “Does Flexibility Promote Cooperation? An Application to the Global Trade Regime,” International Organization 62:3 (Summer 2008), 477-505 (with Jeffrey Kucik).
3. “Three's a Crowd: Third Parties and WTO Dispute Settlement,” World Politics 58 (April 2006), 446-477 (with Marc Busch).
4. “Industrial Location and Voter Participation in Europe,” British Journal of Political Science 35:4 (October 2005), 713-730 (with Marc Busch). (data...)
5. “The Perversity of Preferences: GSP and Developing Country Trade Policies, 1976-2000”, Journal of Development Economics 78:1 (October 2005), 1-21, and World Bank Working Paper 2955 (with Çaglar Özden). (data...) (in the news: World Bank webcast, profiled in Knowledge@Emory, a recent Economist article by Jagdish Bhagwati)
6. “Multilateral Determinants of Regionalism: The Effects of GATT/WTO on the Formation of Preferential Trading Arrangements,” International Organization 57:4 (Fall 2003), 829-862 (with Edward Mansfield) (data...).
7. “Adjudication without Enforcement in GATT Disputes,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 45:2 (April 2001), 174-195. (more information...) (data)
8. “Geography, International Trade, and Political Mobilization in U.S. Industries,” American Journal of Political Science 44:4 (October 2000), 703-719 (with Marc Busch). (more information...) (data...) (appendix...)
9. “Industrial Location and Protection: The Political and Economic Geography of U.S. Nontariff Barriers,” American Journal of Political Science 43:4 (October 1999), 1028-1050 (with Marc Busch). (more information...) (unpublished appendix) (data)
10. “Domestic Strife and the Initiation of Violence at Home and Abroad,” American Journal of Political Science 43:1 (January 1999), 56-85 (with Kurt Dassel). (more information...) (data)
11. “Nice Strategies in a World of Relative Gains: The Problem of Cooperation Under Anarchy,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 37:3 (September 1993), 427-445 (with Marc Busch).
12. “Fixing What "Ain't Broke"? Third Party Rights, Consultations, and the DSU,” in Kim Van der Borght and Dencho Georgiev, eds., Reform and Development of the WTO Dispute Settlement System (London: Cameron May, 2006), 75-87 (with Marc Busch).
13. “Developing Countries and GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement,” Journal of World Trade, 37:4 (2003), 719-735 (with Marc Busch). (data...)
14. “Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: Early Settlement in GATT/WTO Disputes”, Fordham International Law Journal 24:1-2 (November-December 2000), 158-172 (with Marc Busch).
15. “Transatlantic Trade Conflicts and GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement”, in Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann and Mark A. Pollack, eds., Transatlantic Trade Disputes: The EU, the US, and the WTO (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003) (with Marc Busch). (featured in Financial Times, Apr 13, 2002)
16. “Testing International Trade Law: Empirical Studies of GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement”, in Daniel L. M. Kennedy and James D. Southwick, eds., The Political Economy of International Trade Law: Essays in Honor of Robert E. Hudec (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 457-481 (with Marc Busch).
17. “Tying Hands without a Rope: Rational Domestic Response to International Institutional Constraints,” in Daniel Drezner, ed., Locating the Proper Authorities: The Interaction of Domestic and International Institutions (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002), 77-104. (more information...) (data...)
18. A PUBLISHED LECTURE: “Intellectual Property Protection and Public Health in the Developing World,” Emory International Law Review 17:2 (Summer 2003), 475-489.
19. “The WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism and Developing Countries,” Trade Brief, Swedish International Development Agency, April 2004 (with Marc Busch).
20. “The Evolution of GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement,” in John M. Curtis and Dan Ciuriak, eds., Trade Policy Research 2003 (Ottawa: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 2003), 143-183 (with Marc Busch).
21. And, for something a little different....

Manuscripts

1. “International Institutions and Terms of Trade Volatility” (with Edward Mansfield), August 2008.
2. “Does the Rule of Law Matter? The WTO and US Antidumping Investigations,” May 14, 2008 (with Marc Busch and Rafal Raciborski).
3. “International Finance, Predatory States, and Civil Conflict” (with Terrence Chapman), June 2008.
4. “Does Legal Capacity Matter? Explaining Patterns of Protectionism in the Shadow of WTO Litigation,” August 2008 (with Marc Busch and Gregory Shaffer, with the support of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development).
5. “First Do No Harm: The Effect of Trade Preferences on Developing Country Exports” (with Çaglar Özden).
6. “To GATT or Not to GATT: Which Trade Disputes Does the US Litigate, 1975-1999?”, working paper, November 2000.
7. “Aggressive Multilateralism: The Determinants of GATT/WTO Dispute Initiation, 1948-1998,” prepared for delivery at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Washington, DC, February 17-20. (more information...) (data)
8. “Dispute Settlement Institutions and the Escalation of Security Conflicts,” working paper, November 1996. (more information...)
9. Posturing Parliaments: Ratification, Uncertainty, and International Bargaining, PhD dissertation (New York: Columbia University, 1996). (data)

Other Projects

• “'With Friends Like These...': The Impact of Amicus Curiae Briefs on WTO Dispute Settlement Rulings” (with Jason Bradford)

Data

For data related to my research projects, see the associated data link next to each paper on the list above.

Courses

• POLS 308: Political Science Methods (undergraduate), Fall 2007 [course Blackboard page]
• POLS 508: Data Analysis (graduate), Fall 2007
• POLS 519: International Political Economy (graduate), Spring 2007
• POLS 490SWR: Globalization and Its Discontents (undergraduate), Spring 2007
• POLS 319: International Political Economy (undergraduate), Fall 2006
• POLS 509: The Linear Model (graduate), Spring 2006
• POLS 585J: International Institutions (graduate), Spring 2000
• POLS 190J: Conflict and Cooperation (freshman seminar), Fall 1999

Links & Resources

WTO Documents
Lexington Herald-Leader Kentucky Basketball Page
Annals of Improbable Research (humorous survey of ridiculous but real "scientific" studies)
Marc Busch's Home Page
Inter-Parliamentary Union, an invaluable resource for comparison of legislatures
Office of the United States Trade Representative
World Trade Organization
World Bank
International Monetary Fund
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
The Record of American Democracy Project
MABLE/Geocorr, superb resource for free official US geographical data
Some key sources of international economic data...