Mark R Brawley
Biographic Data
| ID | 239091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark R Brawley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark R |
| FAMILY NAME | Brawley |
| SIGNATURE | BRAWLEY M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0385-2703 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Britain's Trade Liberalization in the 1840s: A Defensive Neoclassical Realist Explanation
In the 1840s, Britain engaged in a series of trade liberalizations, with important consequences for itself and the international system. Many have tried to explain the central piece, Repeal of the Corn Laws, using liberal arguments from international political economy. Few find these arguments persuasive. Applying defensive neoclassical realism, I demonstrate how fluctuations in external threats to Britain—in particular posed by France—drove reas…
Globalization/deglobalization: Lessons from liberal monetary orders
Economic globalization never proceeded in a smooth steady trajectory. The current international economy, organized around liberal principles, faces potential problems unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Two popular theoretical approaches offer varying reasons for the survivability of the contemporary order. One stresses the benefits associated with participating in liberal international orders, claiming such arrangements are essentially self-sust…
The Failure of Financial Regulation: Why a Major Crisis Could Happen Again by Anil Hira, Norbert Gaillard, Theodore Cohn, (eds)
The Politics of Globalization: Gaining Perspective, Assessing Consequences
Since the end of the cold war, understandings of the development of relationships within and between states have taken on new meanings, generally bundled under the word "globalization." This word is used everywhere, but what does it mean? This book explores the political dimensions of globalization, considering different definitions of the term as well as several specific globalizing processes. While much of the emphasis is on political changes w…
Political Economy and Grand Strategy: A Neoclassical Realist View
This book examines traditional balance of power theory from a political-economic perspective, using historical examples, to draw out distinctions between the liberal and realist approach and how this affects grand strategy. The realist view of the balance of power theory includes implicit assumptions that economic assets can be turned quickly into power, and that states always respond to threats quickly and only with a view to the 'short-run'. Th…
Neoclassical realism and strategic calculations: Explaining divergent British, French, and Soviet strategies toward Germany between the world wars (1919–1939)
This chapter addresses two questions raised in chapter 1 by Jeffrey Taliaferro, Steven Lobell, and Norrin Ripsman. These questions are how did decision-makers in France, Britain, and the Soviet Union assess foreign threats and opportunities, and how and under what circumstances did domestic factors impede these leaders from pursuing the strategies predicted by balance of power and balance of threat theories? These are some of the central question…
Tariff reform, taxes and land: Trade-based cleavages in pre-World War I Britain
In 1903, Joseph Chamberlain argued that tariffs would protect jobs in Britain and improve the government's fiscal position. The Liberals countered by not only defending free trade, but proposing land reform. Recent analyses fail to account for the cleavages exposed between 1903 and 1910. The dominant cleavage divided the country along the lines of agricultural sectors, but was cross-cut by a factor-based cleavage in urban areas. This pattern is e…
Unemployment, Trade Liberalization and Adjustment in Post-Transition South Africa
Economic theory suggests that trade liberalization rewards relatively abundant factors of production - labor in most economically developing countries. In South Africa, trade liberalization has not benefited the locally abundant factor (unskilled labor). Instead, unemployment remains stubbornly high. The legacy of apartheid explains this surprising result; apartheid distorted factor markets (including patterns in land ownership, unionization, inv…
Building Blocks or a BRIC Wall? Fitting U.S. Foreign Policy to the Shifting Distribution of Power
The U.S. confronts the difficult task of managing change peacefully as the BRICs’ economic rise redistributes power in the international system. I consider the insights from four approaches within international relations—Realism, Institutionalism, Constructivism and Liberalism—to draw out possible policy advice. While the first two offer useful thinking, their policies are in fact quite risky and difficult to implement. Constructivism, too, offer…
Agricultural Interests, Trade Adjustment and Repeal of the Corn Laws
In the 1840s, agricultural preferences on trade fluctuated between unity around protection and sector-based splits. Political economists have struggled to explain this pattern, because they have relied on the standard economic models of the domestic distribution of the gains from trade. The standard models depict interests in stable and exclusive terms, making them ill-suited for explaining change. I employ a new economic model—one designed to li…
Power, Money, and Trade: Decisions That Shape Global Economic Relations
Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World
Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World. Edited by Eric Helleiner and Andreas Pickel. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 271p. $57.50 cloth, $22.95 paper. The editors lay out three goals for this book. They wish us to question contemporary understandings of economic nationalism, to appreciate the importance of identity in shaping economic policy, and to recognize how ideas and identity can be integrated into work in international pol…
Who's Afraid of the WTO
Chapter 3 The Political Economy of Balance of Power Theory
The Art of the Feud: Reconceptualizing International Relations
Preface Introduction: Making Sense of International Relations Theory in Global Context by Jose V. Ciprut Ecological Narratives: Reclaiming the Voice of Theorized Others by Klaus Krippendorff Hindrances to Understanding in International Relations by Kalevi J. Holsti The Theory and Practice of Power in International Relations: Past and Future by Barry Buzan The State as Moral Authority in an Evolving Global Political Economy by Ronnie D. Lipschutz …
Alliance Policies, Kosovo, and Nato's War: Allied Forces or Forced Allies
Preface S.Hoffmann Kosovo, Alliance Politics, and the Future of NATO M.R.Brawley & P.Martin PART I: THE ALLIANCE, SECURITY INSTITUTIONS AND THE NATURE OF NEW THREASTS NATO's Future (In Theory) S.Walt Challenges to Euro-Atlantic Security S.N.MacFarlane The Legal and Institutional Framework for Euro-Atlantic Security A.Henrikson The European Union and Kosovo: Towards the Glass Ceiling? A.Deighton PART II: NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON OPERATION ALLIED F…
Interests, Institutions and Information: Domestic Politics and International Relations
Factoral or Sectoral Conflict? Partially Mobile Factors and the Politics of Trade in Imperial Germany
Several recent attempts to understand the politics of trade liberalization and expansion have come under criticism for the way they employ different economic models to identify the positions of domestic political actors. The two approaches most popular among political scientists are the Stolper-Samuelson theorem and the factor-specific model. Each of these economic models builds on extreme assumptions, and each therefore exhibits shortcomings. Ra…
When Opponents Cooperate: Great Power Conflict and Collaboration in World Politics
The bipolar structure of the Cold War allowed a certain stability in world politics that, with the demise of the Soviet Union, is now missing. Does this mean that we can expect greater instability because of this structural transition from bipolarity to multipolarity? Or should we feel reassured that changes on the state level such as democratization and the transition to market economies that are occurring in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and t…
Political Leadership and Liberal Economic Subsystems: The Constraints of Structural Assumptions
Theories of hegemonic leadership often begin with a constraining assumption: that international structure can explain both a state's capability to provide leadership and its interest in doing so. By conflating these explanations, traditional theories, even those from quite different approaches, share common problems. These problems are illustrated by examining three well-known models, and comparing their applications to the eighteenth century. Th…
Liberal Leadership: Great Powers and Their Challengers in Peace and War
Regime Types, Markets, and War: The Importance of Pervasive Rents in Foreign Policy
Several possible explanations have been given for why democracies maintain peaceful relations among themselves. This article examines the role of domestic political institutions in establishing market relations and the degree of interference in domestic economic relations. It is argued that less representative regimes are more likely to establish pervasive policies delivering rents than more representative regimes. Pervasive rents, in turn, alter…
Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World
Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World. Edited by Eric Helleiner and Andreas Pickel. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 271p. $57.50 cloth, $22.95 paper. The editors lay out three goals for this book. They wish us to question contemporary understandings of economic nationalism, to appreciate the importance of identity in shaping economic policy, and to recognize how ideas and identity can be integrated into work in international pol…
Regime Types, Markets, and War: The Importance of Pervasive Rents in Foreign Policy
Several possible explanations have been given for why democracies maintain peaceful relations among themselves. This article examines the role of domestic political institutions in establishing market relations and the degree of interference in domestic economic relations. It is argued that less representative regimes are more likely to establish pervasive policies delivering rents than more representative regimes. Pervasive rents, in turn, alter…
When Opponents Cooperate: Great Power Conflict and Collaboration in World Politics
The bipolar structure of the Cold War allowed a certain stability in world politics that, with the demise of the Soviet Union, is now missing. Does this mean that we can expect greater instability because of this structural transition from bipolarity to multipolarity? Or should we feel reassured that changes on the state level such as democratization and the transition to market economies that are occurring in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and t…
Factoral or Sectoral Conflict? Partially Mobile Factors and the Politics of Trade in Imperial Germany
Several recent attempts to understand the politics of trade liberalization and expansion have come under criticism for the way they employ different economic models to identify the positions of domestic political actors. The two approaches most popular among political scientists are the Stolper-Samuelson theorem and the factor-specific model. Each of these economic models builds on extreme assumptions, and each therefore exhibits shortcomings. Ra…
Liberal Leadership: Great Powers and Their Challengers in Peace and War
Political Leadership and Liberal Economic Subsystems: The Constraints of Structural Assumptions
Theories of hegemonic leadership often begin with a constraining assumption: that international structure can explain both a state's capability to provide leadership and its interest in doing so. By conflating these explanations, traditional theories, even those from quite different approaches, share common problems. These problems are illustrated by examining three well-known models, and comparing their applications to the eighteenth century. Th…
The Art of the Feud: Reconceptualizing International Relations
Preface Introduction: Making Sense of International Relations Theory in Global Context by Jose V. Ciprut Ecological Narratives: Reclaiming the Voice of Theorized Others by Klaus Krippendorff Hindrances to Understanding in International Relations by Kalevi J. Holsti The Theory and Practice of Power in International Relations: Past and Future by Barry Buzan The State as Moral Authority in an Evolving Global Political Economy by Ronnie D. Lipschutz …
Agricultural Interests, Trade Adjustment and Repeal of the Corn Laws
In the 1840s, agricultural preferences on trade fluctuated between unity around protection and sector-based splits. Political economists have struggled to explain this pattern, because they have relied on the standard economic models of the domestic distribution of the gains from trade. The standard models depict interests in stable and exclusive terms, making them ill-suited for explaining change. I employ a new economic model—one designed to li…
Alliance Policies, Kosovo, and Nato's War: Allied Forces or Forced Allies
Preface S.Hoffmann Kosovo, Alliance Politics, and the Future of NATO M.R.Brawley & P.Martin PART I: THE ALLIANCE, SECURITY INSTITUTIONS AND THE NATURE OF NEW THREASTS NATO's Future (In Theory) S.Walt Challenges to Euro-Atlantic Security S.N.MacFarlane The Legal and Institutional Framework for Euro-Atlantic Security A.Henrikson The European Union and Kosovo: Towards the Glass Ceiling? A.Deighton PART II: NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON OPERATION ALLIED F…
Regime Types, Markets, and War: The Importance of Pervasive Rents in Foreign Policy
Several possible explanations have been given for why democracies maintain peaceful relations among themselves. This article examines the role of domestic political institutions in establishing market relations and the degree of interference in domestic economic relations. It is argued that less representative regimes are more likely to establish pervasive policies delivering rents than more representative regimes. Pervasive rents, in turn, alter…
Liberal Leadership: Great Powers and Their Challengers in Peace and War
Political Leadership and Liberal Economic Subsystems: The Constraints of Structural Assumptions
Theories of hegemonic leadership often begin with a constraining assumption: that international structure can explain both a state's capability to provide leadership and its interest in doing so. By conflating these explanations, traditional theories, even those from quite different approaches, share common problems. These problems are illustrated by examining three well-known models, and comparing their applications to the eighteenth century. Th…
Factoral or Sectoral Conflict? Partially Mobile Factors and the Politics of Trade in Imperial Germany
Several recent attempts to understand the politics of trade liberalization and expansion have come under criticism for the way they employ different economic models to identify the positions of domestic political actors. The two approaches most popular among political scientists are the Stolper-Samuelson theorem and the factor-specific model. Each of these economic models builds on extreme assumptions, and each therefore exhibits shortcomings. Ra…
When Opponents Cooperate: Great Power Conflict and Collaboration in World Politics
The bipolar structure of the Cold War allowed a certain stability in world politics that, with the demise of the Soviet Union, is now missing. Does this mean that we can expect greater instability because of this structural transition from bipolarity to multipolarity? Or should we feel reassured that changes on the state level such as democratization and the transition to market economies that are occurring in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and t…
Interests, Institutions and Information: Domestic Politics and International Relations
The Art of the Feud: Reconceptualizing International Relations
Preface Introduction: Making Sense of International Relations Theory in Global Context by Jose V. Ciprut Ecological Narratives: Reclaiming the Voice of Theorized Others by Klaus Krippendorff Hindrances to Understanding in International Relations by Kalevi J. Holsti The Theory and Practice of Power in International Relations: Past and Future by Barry Buzan The State as Moral Authority in an Evolving Global Political Economy by Ronnie D. Lipschutz …
Alliance Policies, Kosovo, and Nato's War: Allied Forces or Forced Allies
Preface S.Hoffmann Kosovo, Alliance Politics, and the Future of NATO M.R.Brawley & P.Martin PART I: THE ALLIANCE, SECURITY INSTITUTIONS AND THE NATURE OF NEW THREASTS NATO's Future (In Theory) S.Walt Challenges to Euro-Atlantic Security S.N.MacFarlane The Legal and Institutional Framework for Euro-Atlantic Security A.Henrikson The European Union and Kosovo: Towards the Glass Ceiling? A.Deighton PART II: NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON OPERATION ALLIED F…
Chapter 3 The Political Economy of Balance of Power Theory
Who's Afraid of the WTO
Agricultural Interests, Trade Adjustment and Repeal of the Corn Laws
In the 1840s, agricultural preferences on trade fluctuated between unity around protection and sector-based splits. Political economists have struggled to explain this pattern, because they have relied on the standard economic models of the domestic distribution of the gains from trade. The standard models depict interests in stable and exclusive terms, making them ill-suited for explaining change. I employ a new economic model—one designed to li…
Power, Money, and Trade: Decisions That Shape Global Economic Relations
Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World
Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World. Edited by Eric Helleiner and Andreas Pickel. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 271p. $57.50 cloth, $22.95 paper. The editors lay out three goals for this book. They wish us to question contemporary understandings of economic nationalism, to appreciate the importance of identity in shaping economic policy, and to recognize how ideas and identity can be integrated into work in international pol…
Building Blocks or a BRIC Wall? Fitting U.S. Foreign Policy to the Shifting Distribution of Power
The U.S. confronts the difficult task of managing change peacefully as the BRICs’ economic rise redistributes power in the international system. I consider the insights from four approaches within international relations—Realism, Institutionalism, Constructivism and Liberalism—to draw out possible policy advice. While the first two offer useful thinking, their policies are in fact quite risky and difficult to implement. Constructivism, too, offer…
Political Economy and Grand Strategy: A Neoclassical Realist View
This book examines traditional balance of power theory from a political-economic perspective, using historical examples, to draw out distinctions between the liberal and realist approach and how this affects grand strategy. The realist view of the balance of power theory includes implicit assumptions that economic assets can be turned quickly into power, and that states always respond to threats quickly and only with a view to the 'short-run'. Th…
Neoclassical realism and strategic calculations: Explaining divergent British, French, and Soviet strategies toward Germany between the world wars (1919–1939)
This chapter addresses two questions raised in chapter 1 by Jeffrey Taliaferro, Steven Lobell, and Norrin Ripsman. These questions are how did decision-makers in France, Britain, and the Soviet Union assess foreign threats and opportunities, and how and under what circumstances did domestic factors impede these leaders from pursuing the strategies predicted by balance of power and balance of threat theories? These are some of the central question…
Tariff reform, taxes and land: Trade-based cleavages in pre-World War I Britain
In 1903, Joseph Chamberlain argued that tariffs would protect jobs in Britain and improve the government's fiscal position. The Liberals countered by not only defending free trade, but proposing land reform. Recent analyses fail to account for the cleavages exposed between 1903 and 1910. The dominant cleavage divided the country along the lines of agricultural sectors, but was cross-cut by a factor-based cleavage in urban areas. This pattern is e…
Unemployment, Trade Liberalization and Adjustment in Post-Transition South Africa
Economic theory suggests that trade liberalization rewards relatively abundant factors of production - labor in most economically developing countries. In South Africa, trade liberalization has not benefited the locally abundant factor (unskilled labor). Instead, unemployment remains stubbornly high. The legacy of apartheid explains this surprising result; apartheid distorted factor markets (including patterns in land ownership, unionization, inv…
The Politics of Globalization: Gaining Perspective, Assessing Consequences
Since the end of the cold war, understandings of the development of relationships within and between states have taken on new meanings, generally bundled under the word "globalization." This word is used everywhere, but what does it mean? This book explores the political dimensions of globalization, considering different definitions of the term as well as several specific globalizing processes. While much of the emphasis is on political changes w…
The Failure of Financial Regulation: Why a Major Crisis Could Happen Again by Anil Hira, Norbert Gaillard, Theodore Cohn, (eds)
Globalization/deglobalization: Lessons from liberal monetary orders
Economic globalization never proceeded in a smooth steady trajectory. The current international economy, organized around liberal principles, faces potential problems unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Two popular theoretical approaches offer varying reasons for the survivability of the contemporary order. One stresses the benefits associated with participating in liberal international orders, claiming such arrangements are essentially self-sust…
Britain's Trade Liberalization in the 1840s: A Defensive Neoclassical Realist Explanation
In the 1840s, Britain engaged in a series of trade liberalizations, with important consequences for itself and the international system. Many have tried to explain the central piece, Repeal of the Corn Laws, using liberal arguments from international political economy. Few find these arguments persuasive. Applying defensive neoclassical realism, I demonstrate how fluctuations in external threats to Britain—in particular posed by France—drove reas…
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