|
|
The Politics of International Regime
Complexity
Northwestern University
March 1, 2007
A
workshop organized by
Karen Alter and
Sophie Meunier
 The final
papers for the
Politics of International Regime Complexity Symposium are now
available on SSRN.
Sponsored by the
Northwestern
Institute on Complex Systems
Conference Coordinator:
David Steinberg
Northwestern Chicago Campus
Weiboldt Hall 248
8:45-9:00am:
Introductions and Terminology: Studying Complexity as an Independent
Variable
Karen Alter and Sophie
Meunier, The
Politics of International Regime Complexity
9:10-10:10am: How
Interconnections Matter within Specific Policy Areas
Alexander Betts,
International Cooperation and the Global Refugee Regime: The Role of
Interconnections
Stephanie Hofmann,
Institutional Overlap in the
Realm of Security: The Case of NATO and ESDP
Discussant: Karen Alter
10:15-11:15am: The
Impact of Regime Density
Larry Helfer,
Navigating
Institutional Density in Intellectual Property Rights Regimes: The Strategy
of Regime Shifting
Judith Kelley,
Insights from Election
Monitoring for the Politics of Nesting and Overlapping Regimes
Discussant:
David Dana
11:30-12:30pm: When
and How Complexity Influences Politics
Emilie Hafner-Burton,
The Power Politics of
Regime Complexity: Human Rights Trade Conditionality in Europe
Christina Davis,
Overlapping Institutions in
Trade Policy
Discussant: Sophie
Meunier
12:30-1:30pm:
Conclusions about International Regime Complexity
Daniel Drezner,
The Power
and Peril of International Regime Complexity
Recommended Readings:
-
Jervis, Robert.
1997. System effects: complexity in political and social life.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
-
Jones, Bryan D.
1999. "Bounded Rationality"
in Annual Review of Political Science, 2, 297-321.
-
Jones, Bryan D.
2003. "Bounded
Rationality and Political Science: Lessons from Public Administration
and Public Policy" in Journal of Public Administration Research
and Theory, 13, 4, 395-412.
-
Jones, Bryan D.,
Graeme Boushey and Samuel Workman. 2006.
"Behavioral
Rationality and the Policy Processes: Toward a New Model of
Organizational Information Processing" in Handbook of Public
Policy, 39-64.
-
Raustiala, Kal.
2006.
"Density and Conflict in International Intellectual Property Law"
University of California, Los Angeles School of Law Research Paper No.
06-31.
-
Snyder, Jack L.,
and Robert Jervis. 1993. Coping with complexity in the international
system, Pew studies in economics and security. Boulder: Westview
Press.
-
Uzzi, Brian.
1997. "Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The
Paradox of Embeddedness" in Administrative Science Quarterly, 42,
1, 35-67.
-
Uzzi, Brian.
1997.
"Towards a Network Perspective on Organizational Decline" in
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 17, 7/8.
-
Uzzi, Brian and
Jarrett Spiro. 2005.
"Collaboration
and Creativity: The Small World Problem" in American Journal of
Sociology, 111, 2, 447-504.
-
Willerton, John
P., Kathy L. Powers, Tatiana Vashchilko, Mikhail Beznosov, and Gary
Goertz. 2007. "Treaty
Nestedness and Complex Security Institutions: The Case of the CIS and
Russia."
|
