ECONOMIC POLICY
August 31, 2006
"The "Acceptance" of Globalization"
Book Chapter
By Luisita Cordero and Richard N. Rosecrance, Adjunct Professor; Senior Fellow, International Security Program; Director, Project on U.S.-China Relations
"International relations are not simply a state of anarchy. There are profound elements of hierarchy in the international system, and even authority relationships...."
August 31, 2006
"The Dilemma of Devolution and Federalism: Secessionary Nationalism and the Case of Scotland"
Book Chapter
By Arthur A. Stein and Richard N. Rosecrance, Adjunct Professor; Senior Fellow, International Security Program; Director, Project on U.S.-China Relations
"In 1707, England and Scotland completed their union. Yet more than a quarter of a millennium later Scottish nationalism made a reappearance...."
August 31, 2006
"Globalization and its Effects: Introduction and Overview"
Book Chapter
By Richard N. Rosecrance, Adjunct Professor; Senior Fellow, International Security Program; Director, Project on U.S.-China Relations, Etel Solingen and Arthur A. Stein
"Globalization has the effect of incapacitating states as autonomous units."
April, 2005
Dawning of a New Era: The LNG Story
Discussion Paper
By Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program
AP Photo
September 25, 2008
Feldstein: Everyone has a Stake in Preventing the Financial Markets from Collapsing
In the News
Martin Feldstein, president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the Belfer Center's Board of Directors, gave his take on the most pressing issues facing the United States' economy in an interview with Canada's Business News Network.
May / June 2006
The Long War Against Corruption
Journal Article, Foreign Affairs
By Ben Heineman, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Corruption is widely acknowledged to distort markets, undermine the rule of law, damage government legitimacy, and hurt economic development. The global anticorruption movement has gained ground since the mid-1990s, but its key agents -- developed and developing countries, international organizations, and MNCs -- must do more to prevent and punish misbehavior systematically.
Autumn 2005
"Inside Multilateralism: The Six-Party Talks"
Journal Article, Washington Quarterly, issue 4, volume 28
By John Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Despite extensive diplomatic efforts to facilitate the six-party talks, domestic policy constraints, differing priorities, and conflicting historical analogies among each of the countries have brought vastly differing perspectives to the multilateral negotiating table.
Winter 2000/01
"Imperial Wreckage: Property Rights, Sovereignty, and Security in the Post-Soviet Space"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 3, volume 25
The author explores the efforts of Russia and other states of the former Soviet Union to address the region's "residual assets" problem in the wake of the Cold War through the development of a series of “unconventional governance structures” in the form of bilateral agreements.
Fall 1998
"Correspondence: Evaluating Economic Sanctions"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 2, volume 23
By David A. Baldwin and Robert Pape
David Baldwin of Columbia University takes issue with Robert Pape’s findings in his Fall 1997 article that economic sanctions “do not work.” Pape replies.
Summer 1998
"The Sanctions Glass: Half Full or Completely Empty?"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 1, volume 23
The author argues here that Robert Pape mischaracterizes the principal objective of the work, which, according to the author, was to determine if and how economic sanctions contributed to desired foreign policy outcomes—not, as Pape contends, whether they caused them.
