Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Security (GIES)
Directors:
Sarah Brooks
Alex Thompson
The workshop on Globalization, Institutions and Economic Security (GIES) is co-sponsored by the Mershon Center and the Department of Political Science. It provides a forum for exchange between faculty and graduate students interested in broad political economy themes such as global economic and political change, economic security, and the political dynamics of global integration including conflict and cooperation within and among nations. A goal of the workshop is to facilitate greater interaction between faculty and graduate students from the different subfields of political science and across allied disciplines in the social sciences.
Winter 2010 Presentation Schedule:
Tuesday, March 9th 3:30-5:00 pm
James Holston (University of California, Berkeley)
Title: "Right to the City, Right to Rights, and
Insurgent Urban Citizenship." (Download a copy of the paper)
Mershon Center, Room 120, 1501 Neil Ave.
Friday, February 12th 3:30-5:00 pm
Lisa Martin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Title: “International Institutions: Weak Commitments and Costly
Signals” (Download
a copy of the paper)
Discussant: Eleonora Mattiacci
Mershon Center, Room 120, 1501 Neil Ave.
Past GIES Presentations
Autumn 2009 Presentation Schedule:
Thursday, November 5th 3:30-5:00 pm
Catherine Weaver (University of Texas)
Title: “The Politics of IO Accountability: Transparency and Evaluation
in the IMF” (Download
a copy of the paper)
Discussant: Erin Graham
Mershon Center, Room 120, 1501 Neil Ave.
Winter 2009 Presentation Schedule:
Wednesday, January 21st 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Irfan Nooruddin
and Byungwon Woo (Ohio State University)
Title: “Heeding the Sirens: The Politics of IMF Program Participation.”
(Download a copy of the paper)
Discussant: TBA
Derby Hall, Spencer Room (2130 Derby)
Friday, January 30th 3:30-5:00 (Postponed)
Torben Iversen
(Harvard University)
Title:
"A Political-Institutional Model of Real Exchange Rates, Competitiveness, and
the Division of Labor" (Download a copy of the paper)
Discussant: TBA
Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Room
120, 1501 Neil Ave.
Friday, March 6th 3:30-5:00
Jeffry Frieden (Harvard University)
Title: "The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Regimes In Transition Economies" (Download a copy of the paper)
Discussant: TBA
Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Room
120, 1501 Neil Ave.
Friday, March 13th 3:30-5:00
Hendrik Spruyt
(Northwestern University)
Title: "Incomplete Contracting in International Relations: Patterns of Regional Integration in Europe and North America"
(Download a copy of the paper)
Discussant: Erin Graham
Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Room 120, 1501 Neil Ave.
Autumn 2008 Presentation Schedule
Friday, October 17th 3:30-5:00
Daniel Blake (Ohio State University)
Title: "The Domestic Institutional Determinants of International
Institutional Design: The Case of Bilateral Investment Treaties" (Download
a copy of the paper)
Discussant: Eleonora Mattiacci
Derby Hall, Spencer Room (2130 Derby)
Friday, October 31st 3:30-5:00
Todd Allee (University of Illinois)
Title: “Contingent Credibility: The Reputational Effects of Investment
Treaty Disputes on Foreign Direct Investment” (Download a copy of the
paper)
Discussant: Daniel Blake
Derby Hall, Spencer Room (2130 Derby)
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Spring 2008 Presentation Schedule
May 12th, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Layna
Mosley (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Title: "Risk, Uncertainty and Autonomy: Financial Market Constraints in Developing Nations" (Download a copy
of the paper)
Discussant: Scott Powell
Mershon Center
May 23rd 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Nita Rudra (University of Pittsburgh)
Title: "Have Governments Gone Too Far?" (Download
a copy of the paper)
Discussant: A.Kadir Yildirim
Mershon Center
Winter 2008 Presentation Schedule
February 1st 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Michael Tomz (Stanford)
Title: "The Credibility of International Commitments"
Discussant: Byungwon Woo
Mershon Center
February 29th 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Christina Davis (Princeton)
Title: "Forum Choice in Trade Disputes: WTO Adjudication, Negotiation, and U.S. Trade Policy" (Download
a copy of the paper)
Discussant: Autumn Lockwood Payton
Mershon Center
Autumn 2007 Presentation Schedule
November 30th 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Yoram Haftel(University of Illinois at Chicago)
Title:
"The Effect of U.S. BITs on FDI Inflows to Developing Countries: Signaling or Credible Commitment?"
(Download a copy of the paper)
Discussant: Quintin Beazer
Derby Hall, Spencer Room (2130 Derby)
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Spring 2007 Schedule
April 27th 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Tony Mughan (Ohio State, Political Science)
Title: “Economic Insecurity and Welfare Preferences: A Micro-Level Analysis”
Discussant: Scott Powell
Derby Hall, Spencer room
May 18th 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Michael Hiscox (Harvard University, Government)
Title: "The Demand for Labor Standards: New Evidence from Online Experiments in
Social Labeling of Imported Products"
Mershon Center
May 25 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Nathan Jensen (Washington University in
St. Louis, Political Science)
Title: “Firm Responses to Politics”
Discussant: Daniel Blake
Mershon Center
Winter 2007 Schedule
January 19th 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Daniel Drezner (Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy)
Title: “The Viscosity of Global Governance”
Mershon Center
February 16th 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Marcus Kurtz (Political Science, Ohio
State)
Title: "Capital, Trade and the Political Economies of Reform"
Derby Hall, Spencer room
