Publication Type: Proceeding
Abstract: This paper maps out a neoclassical realist framework for understanding the relationship between domestic politics, economic interdependence, and cooperation. Much of the literature on economic interdependence assumes that there is a causal relationship between interdependence and cooperation. Systemic realist analyses have begged to differ; so too have neoclassical realist analyses, but for very different reasons. The framework presented here starts with the observation that intra-group resource allocation processes always involve internal competition (electoral competition in democracies; bureaucratic struggles in non-democracies). It argues that such competition is also always connected to the politics of group identity, as a process of self-other differentiation in the modern Wesphalian system that links groups identity to notion s of autonomy and territorial self-determination. It argues that this link between intra-group competition and identity politics, in both its implicit or explicit forms, drives interdependent cooperation, and hence there is little reason to be sanguine about the phenomenon. It utilizes cases from the US (implicit forms of ID politics) and China-Taiwan (explicit forms of ID politics) to illustrate this framework. Although it concurs with most systemic realist analysis that cooperation, peace, and interdependence do not necessarily correlate, it also raises questions about the compatibility of insights drawn from neorealist and neoclassical realist analysis.

Publication Type: Abstract
Abstract: Callon and others have argued that the economy is something that is performed and that economists spend their time proposing ways in which the economy can be performed. Similarly, Hilgartner argues that science is performed, using the creation of reports by the National Academy of Sciences as an example. In this paper, I argue that the ongoing transformations collectively known as globalization signal neither the rise of a new neoliberal global economy, nor the beginning of a race to the bottom, but a new way of practicing both economics and regulatory science: Supply Chain Management. SCM appears to be subsuming neoclassical models and in so doing creating a new way simultaneously to think about and to perform both the economy and science. I use recent developments in the agrifood sector to illustrate my arguments.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: I explain Russian balancing behavior toward NATO Eastern enlargement as a function of contention within elites whether NATO enlargement constitutes a threat to Russia’s national interests or whether balancing is the appropriate response.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Challenging some of the common explanations for the liberal peace, I argue that the principles of classical liberal theory can be merged with the insights of neo institutional economics to construct a single conceptual framework capable of generating numerous liberal hypotheses linking democracy, international commerce, capitalism, and variations in the forms of wealth to the outbreak of peace between states. Building on such simple principles as the law of demand, monopoly behavior, and diminishing returns, I move beyond democracy to integrate previously neglected domestic institutions also capable of shaping foreign policy, grand strategy, and the outbreak of war. As society establishes more institutional safeguards that protect individual liberties and limit a government’s authority, the state should be less likely to participate in war.

Publication Type: Proceeding