This seminar is both a critical survey of empirical evidence on foreign aid, trade, and investment and an introduction to modern quantitative research methods used in international political economy. Substantively, the seminar will examine the relationships between economic instruments and human rights, conflict, public opinion, and other topics.
Reading, analysis, and research on modern Japan.
Field(s): EA
This seminar examines theoretic and empirical literatures that focus on the roles and impacts of private actors in international politics. We explore how different scholars have defined and conceptualized private authority in transnational affairs. We focus on how non-state actors contribute to the production and maintenance of order in the international system through public-private partnerships, interest-group mechanisms, instances of express or implicit delegation of regulatory tasks (the ‘privatization’ of governance), and through strategic behavior within existing regulatory frameworks. We also explore how and why private actors may challenge, or undermine, public modes of international and transnational governance.
Prerequisites: Instructor's permission prior to registration.
This course will delve into how states infer what others are likely to do in the future and how they try to project desired images of how they will behave. This involves both purposeful or intended communication, as in diplomacy, and the ways in which perceivers try to discern others' capabilities and intentions from attributes and behaviors that the senders cannot readily manipulate. Substantive areas to be covered--or at least touched on--include how states try to open negotiations without appearing weak, how promises and threats can be orchestrated, and the use of peace feelers.