Joanne Gowa
Biographic Data
| ID | 245546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanne Gowa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Gowa |
| SIGNATURE | GOWA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6121-4035 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 848 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Closing the Gold Window: Domestic Politics and the End of Bretton Woods
The Role of Structure and Process
Big” Treaties, Small Effects: The RTAA Agreements
It seems obvious that agreements to cut tariffs will raise trade between their signatories. But recent studies show that some agreements widely considered to be landmarks in economic history had either a remarkably small impact on trade or none at all. Among those agreements are the Cobden-Chevalier Treaties and the long series of tariff accords concluded under the auspices of the GATT/WTO. Both sets of agreements cut import duties on many goods …
Gulliver Untied: Entry Deterrence Under Unipolarity
That the anarchic system generates incentives for states to balance each other's power is conventional wisdom in international relations. As such, the contemporary unipolar system is an anomaly. Observers explain its existence in several ways, including the benevolence of US hegemony and the constraints international institutions impose on the exercise of US power. None of them, however, explain what is perhaps the most puzzling outcome of the So…
Commerce and Conflict: New Data about the Great War
The First World War is often cited as proof par excellence of the flaws in the liberal peace argument because the adversaries it engaged had been each other’s major pre-war trading partners. Although commonly assumed to have wreaked havoc on the trade of the states it engaged, the war’s impact on commerce has rarely been rigorously examined. Using an original dataset, this study shows that the Great War triggered substitution processes that reduc…
Politics, Institutions, and Trade: Lessons of the Interwar Era
Recent studies cast doubt on the value added of international trade agreements and institutions. Using a new data set that consists of about 35,000 observations on the trade of fifty-four nations between 1919 and 1938, we examine whether this skepticism also applies to the infamous interwar trade blocs. Traditional historical accounts attribute to them a large drop in international trade and a rise in the political tensions that would later erupt…
An Exclusive Country Club: The Effects of the Gatt on Trade, 1950–94
Using data on bilateral trade flows from both before and after World War II, this article examines the impact of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade on trade between its members and on the system of interwar trade blocs. It shows that the distribution of the benefits produced by the GATT was much more highly skewed than conventional wisdom assumes. The article also shows that the gold, Commonwealth, Reichsmark, and exchange-control blocs e…
Alliances, Imperfect Markets, and Major-Power Trade
The “new” trade theory and standard trade theory make different predictions about the composition and distribution of trade flows. Empirical evidence suggests that an increasing share of international trade consists of differentiated products, a consequence of increasing returns to scale. Nonetheless, the existing political science literature typically assumes that the conditions of standard theory hold. As such, the literature ignores the dynami…
Ballots and Bullets: The Elusive Democratic Peace
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Ballots and Bullets
Politics at the Water's Edge: Parties, Voters, and the Use of Force Abroad
This article examines the effects of party politics and presidential election cycles on U.S. recourse to force abroad. I analyze a game-theoretic model to generate predictions about these effects. In the unique time-consistent equilibrium outcome of the one-shot game, policy varies across political parties. In a subgame–perfect equilibrium outcome of the repeated game, the use of force is invariant to the partisan composition of government. In ne…
Democracy and Peace
January 01 1997 Democracy and Peace Charles S. Gochman, Charles S. Gochman Charles S. Gochman is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Henry S. Farber, Henry S. Farber Charles S. Gochman is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Joanne Gowa Joan…
Common Interests or Common Polities? Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace
The central claim of a rapidly growing literature in international relations is that members of pairs of democratic states are much less likely to engage each other in war or in serious disputes short of war than are members of other pairs of states. Our analysis does not support this claim. Instead, we ï¬ nd that the dispute rate between democracies is lower than is that of other country pairs only after World War H. Before 1914 and between the …
Building Bridges Abroad
Democracy and Peace
Polities and Peace
In recent months, the Clinton administration has begun to advocate replacement for the doctrine of containment that drove U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War. According to Anthony Lake, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, the leading candidate to succeed containment is a strategy of enlargementenlargement of the world's ... community of market democracies.' President Clinton concurs, noting that strategy of enlargeme…
Power, Trade, and War
Journal Article Power, Trade, and War. Get access Power, Trade, and War. By Edward D. Mansfield. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. xvii + 278. £26.00 hardback, US $35.00 hardback. ISBN 0 691 03288 2.)Allies, Adversaries, and International Trade. By Gowa Joanne. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv+148. £20.00 hardback, US $24.95 hardback. ISBN 0 691 03355 2-) Ron Smith Ron Smith Birkbeck College, Universit…
Democratic states and international disputes
A growing literature in international relations concludes that democratic states pursue distinctive foreign policies. Specifically, democracies do not engage each other in war and only rarely engage each other in serious disputes short of war. Scholars have offered three basic explanations to support these findings. Each of the three invokes a different explanatory variable: norms, checks and balances, and trade. None of the three, however, provi…
Power Politics and International Trade
Recent literature attributes the relative scarcity of open international markets to the prisoner's dilemma structure of state preferences with respect to trade. We argue that the prisoner's dilemma representation does not reflect the most critical aspect of free trade agreements in an anarchic international system, namely, their security externalities. We consider these external effects explicitly. Doing so leads us to two conclusions: (1) free t…
Rational Hegemons, Excludable Goods, and Small Groups: An Epitaph for Hegemonic Stability Theory
In defining international free trade as a public good, “hegemonic stability theory” posited early in the 1970s that its reliable supply depended upon a distribution of international power analogous to that within a privileged group. More recently, however, critics have challenged three assumptions fundamental to hegemonic theory: its premises of free trade, public goods, and privileged groups. They have concluded that hegemony is not necessary fo…
Bipolarity, Multipolarity, and Free Trade
Recent literature typically attributes the relative scarcity of open international markets to the prisoner's dilemma structure of state preferences with respect to trade. I argue that the prisoner's dilemma representation does not reflect the most critical aspect of free trade agreements in an anarchic international system: security externalities. Explicit consideration of these effects suggests that a bipolar international political system has a…
Public goods and political institutions: Trade and monetary policy processes in the United States
Basic analytic premises are an issue in contemporary debates about the U.S. foreign economic policy process. In dispute are the power structures alleged to govern the formation of American trade and international monetary policy. Thus, the literature supports both of these assumptions: the distribution of power is skewed towards private actors in the issue-area generally; the distribution of power varies according to issue-area. Within the camp o…
Anarchy, egoism, and third images: The Evolution of Cooperation and international relations - Robert Axelrod. The Evolution of Cooperation. New York: Basic, 1984
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Subsidizing American Corporate Expansion Abroad: Pitfalls in the Analysis of Public and Private Power
In the mid-1950s, the Eisenhower administration proposed that the U.S. government subsidize the expansion of American corporate interests abroad. In 1954 and again in 1955, the Republican administration recommended that Congress ease the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to income earned abroad in order to encourage American multinational corporations (MNCs) to increase their investments overseas. The MNCs and exporters opposed s…
Power Politics and International Trade
Recent literature attributes the relative scarcity of open international markets to the prisoner's dilemma structure of state preferences with respect to trade. We argue that the prisoner's dilemma representation does not reflect the most critical aspect of free trade agreements in an anarchic international system, namely, their security externalities. We consider these external effects explicitly. Doing so leads us to two conclusions: (1) free t…
Politics at the Water's Edge: Parties, Voters, and the Use of Force Abroad
This article examines the effects of party politics and presidential election cycles on U.S. recourse to force abroad. I analyze a game-theoretic model to generate predictions about these effects. In the unique time-consistent equilibrium outcome of the one-shot game, policy varies across political parties. In a subgame–perfect equilibrium outcome of the repeated game, the use of force is invariant to the partisan composition of government. In ne…
Polities and Peace
In recent months, the Clinton administration has begun to advocate replacement for the doctrine of containment that drove U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War. According to Anthony Lake, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, the leading candidate to succeed containment is a strategy of enlargementenlargement of the world's ... community of market democracies.' President Clinton concurs, noting that strategy of enlargeme…
Bipolarity, Multipolarity, and Free Trade
Recent literature typically attributes the relative scarcity of open international markets to the prisoner's dilemma structure of state preferences with respect to trade. I argue that the prisoner's dilemma representation does not reflect the most critical aspect of free trade agreements in an anarchic international system: security externalities. Explicit consideration of these effects suggests that a bipolar international political system has a…
Alliances, Imperfect Markets, and Major-Power Trade
The “new” trade theory and standard trade theory make different predictions about the composition and distribution of trade flows. Empirical evidence suggests that an increasing share of international trade consists of differentiated products, a consequence of increasing returns to scale. Nonetheless, the existing political science literature typically assumes that the conditions of standard theory hold. As such, the literature ignores the dynami…
Common Interests or Common Polities? Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace
The central claim of a rapidly growing literature in international relations is that members of pairs of democratic states are much less likely to engage each other in war or in serious disputes short of war than are members of other pairs of states. Our analysis does not support this claim. Instead, we ï¬ nd that the dispute rate between democracies is lower than is that of other country pairs only after World War H. Before 1914 and between the …
Rational Hegemons, Excludable Goods, and Small Groups: An Epitaph for Hegemonic Stability Theory
In defining international free trade as a public good, “hegemonic stability theory” posited early in the 1970s that its reliable supply depended upon a distribution of international power analogous to that within a privileged group. More recently, however, critics have challenged three assumptions fundamental to hegemonic theory: its premises of free trade, public goods, and privileged groups. They have concluded that hegemony is not necessary fo…
An Exclusive Country Club: The Effects of the Gatt on Trade, 1950–94
Using data on bilateral trade flows from both before and after World War II, this article examines the impact of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade on trade between its members and on the system of interwar trade blocs. It shows that the distribution of the benefits produced by the GATT was much more highly skewed than conventional wisdom assumes. The article also shows that the gold, Commonwealth, Reichsmark, and exchange-control blocs e…
Democratic states and international disputes
A growing literature in international relations concludes that democratic states pursue distinctive foreign policies. Specifically, democracies do not engage each other in war and only rarely engage each other in serious disputes short of war. Scholars have offered three basic explanations to support these findings. Each of the three invokes a different explanatory variable: norms, checks and balances, and trade. None of the three, however, provi…
Public goods and political institutions: Trade and monetary policy processes in the United States
Basic analytic premises are an issue in contemporary debates about the U.S. foreign economic policy process. In dispute are the power structures alleged to govern the formation of American trade and international monetary policy. Thus, the literature supports both of these assumptions: the distribution of power is skewed towards private actors in the issue-area generally; the distribution of power varies according to issue-area. Within the camp o…
Ballots and Bullets
Anarchy, egoism, and third images: The Evolution of Cooperation and international relations - Robert Axelrod. The Evolution of Cooperation. New York: Basic, 1984
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Politics, Institutions, and Trade: Lessons of the Interwar Era
Recent studies cast doubt on the value added of international trade agreements and institutions. Using a new data set that consists of about 35,000 observations on the trade of fifty-four nations between 1919 and 1938, we examine whether this skepticism also applies to the infamous interwar trade blocs. Traditional historical accounts attribute to them a large drop in international trade and a rise in the political tensions that would later erupt…
Commerce and Conflict: New Data about the Great War
The First World War is often cited as proof par excellence of the flaws in the liberal peace argument because the adversaries it engaged had been each other’s major pre-war trading partners. Although commonly assumed to have wreaked havoc on the trade of the states it engaged, the war’s impact on commerce has rarely been rigorously examined. Using an original dataset, this study shows that the Great War triggered substitution processes that reduc…
Hegemons, IOs, and markets: The Case of the Substitution Account
For eighteen months between 1978 and 1980, the International Monetary Fund and IMF members attempted to reform the international monetary system by establishing a substitution account. Designed to enhance the stability of the monetary system, the proposed substitution account would have accepted dollar deposits from foreign central banks, in return issuing certificates denominated in special drawing rights. The collapse of negotiations about the …
Building Bridges Abroad
Closing the Gold Window: Domestic Politics and the End of Bretton Woods
Gulliver Untied: Entry Deterrence Under Unipolarity
That the anarchic system generates incentives for states to balance each other's power is conventional wisdom in international relations. As such, the contemporary unipolar system is an anomaly. Observers explain its existence in several ways, including the benevolence of US hegemony and the constraints international institutions impose on the exercise of US power. None of them, however, explain what is perhaps the most puzzling outcome of the So…
Democracy and Peace
Subsidizing American Corporate Expansion Abroad: Pitfalls in the Analysis of Public and Private Power
In the mid-1950s, the Eisenhower administration proposed that the U.S. government subsidize the expansion of American corporate interests abroad. In 1954 and again in 1955, the Republican administration recommended that Congress ease the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to income earned abroad in order to encourage American multinational corporations (MNCs) to increase their investments overseas. The MNCs and exporters opposed s…
State Power, State Policy: Explaining the Decision to Close the Gold Window
Big” Treaties, Small Effects: The RTAA Agreements
It seems obvious that agreements to cut tariffs will raise trade between their signatories. But recent studies show that some agreements widely considered to be landmarks in economic history had either a remarkably small impact on trade or none at all. Among those agreements are the Cobden-Chevalier Treaties and the long series of tariff accords concluded under the auspices of the GATT/WTO. Both sets of agreements cut import duties on many goods …
Closing the Gold Window: Domestic Politics and the End of Bretton Woods
Closing the Gold Window: Domestic Politics and the End of Bretton Woods
Hegemons, IOs, and markets: The Case of the Substitution Account
For eighteen months between 1978 and 1980, the International Monetary Fund and IMF members attempted to reform the international monetary system by establishing a substitution account. Designed to enhance the stability of the monetary system, the proposed substitution account would have accepted dollar deposits from foreign central banks, in return issuing certificates denominated in special drawing rights. The collapse of negotiations about the …
State Power, State Policy: Explaining the Decision to Close the Gold Window
Subsidizing American Corporate Expansion Abroad: Pitfalls in the Analysis of Public and Private Power
In the mid-1950s, the Eisenhower administration proposed that the U.S. government subsidize the expansion of American corporate interests abroad. In 1954 and again in 1955, the Republican administration recommended that Congress ease the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to income earned abroad in order to encourage American multinational corporations (MNCs) to increase their investments overseas. The MNCs and exporters opposed s…
Anarchy, egoism, and third images: The Evolution of Cooperation and international relations - Robert Axelrod. The Evolution of Cooperation. New York: Basic, 1984
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Public goods and political institutions: Trade and monetary policy processes in the United States
Basic analytic premises are an issue in contemporary debates about the U.S. foreign economic policy process. In dispute are the power structures alleged to govern the formation of American trade and international monetary policy. Thus, the literature supports both of these assumptions: the distribution of power is skewed towards private actors in the issue-area generally; the distribution of power varies according to issue-area. Within the camp o…
Rational Hegemons, Excludable Goods, and Small Groups: An Epitaph for Hegemonic Stability Theory
In defining international free trade as a public good, “hegemonic stability theory” posited early in the 1970s that its reliable supply depended upon a distribution of international power analogous to that within a privileged group. More recently, however, critics have challenged three assumptions fundamental to hegemonic theory: its premises of free trade, public goods, and privileged groups. They have concluded that hegemony is not necessary fo…
Bipolarity, Multipolarity, and Free Trade
Recent literature typically attributes the relative scarcity of open international markets to the prisoner's dilemma structure of state preferences with respect to trade. I argue that the prisoner's dilemma representation does not reflect the most critical aspect of free trade agreements in an anarchic international system: security externalities. Explicit consideration of these effects suggests that a bipolar international political system has a…
Power Politics and International Trade
Recent literature attributes the relative scarcity of open international markets to the prisoner's dilemma structure of state preferences with respect to trade. We argue that the prisoner's dilemma representation does not reflect the most critical aspect of free trade agreements in an anarchic international system, namely, their security externalities. We consider these external effects explicitly. Doing so leads us to two conclusions: (1) free t…
Polities and Peace
In recent months, the Clinton administration has begun to advocate replacement for the doctrine of containment that drove U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War. According to Anthony Lake, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, the leading candidate to succeed containment is a strategy of enlargementenlargement of the world's ... community of market democracies.' President Clinton concurs, noting that strategy of enlargeme…
Power, Trade, and War
Journal Article Power, Trade, and War. Get access Power, Trade, and War. By Edward D. Mansfield. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. xvii + 278. £26.00 hardback, US $35.00 hardback. ISBN 0 691 03288 2.)Allies, Adversaries, and International Trade. By Gowa Joanne. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv+148. £20.00 hardback, US $24.95 hardback. ISBN 0 691 03355 2-) Ron Smith Ron Smith Birkbeck College, Universit…
Democratic states and international disputes
A growing literature in international relations concludes that democratic states pursue distinctive foreign policies. Specifically, democracies do not engage each other in war and only rarely engage each other in serious disputes short of war. Scholars have offered three basic explanations to support these findings. Each of the three invokes a different explanatory variable: norms, checks and balances, and trade. None of the three, however, provi…
Democracy and Peace
Democracy and Peace
January 01 1997 Democracy and Peace Charles S. Gochman, Charles S. Gochman Charles S. Gochman is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Henry S. Farber, Henry S. Farber Charles S. Gochman is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Joanne Gowa Joan…
Common Interests or Common Polities? Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace
The central claim of a rapidly growing literature in international relations is that members of pairs of democratic states are much less likely to engage each other in war or in serious disputes short of war than are members of other pairs of states. Our analysis does not support this claim. Instead, we ï¬ nd that the dispute rate between democracies is lower than is that of other country pairs only after World War H. Before 1914 and between the …
Building Bridges Abroad
Politics at the Water's Edge: Parties, Voters, and the Use of Force Abroad
This article examines the effects of party politics and presidential election cycles on U.S. recourse to force abroad. I analyze a game-theoretic model to generate predictions about these effects. In the unique time-consistent equilibrium outcome of the one-shot game, policy varies across political parties. In a subgame–perfect equilibrium outcome of the repeated game, the use of force is invariant to the partisan composition of government. In ne…
Gazette
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Ballots and Bullets
Ballots and Bullets: The Elusive Democratic Peace
Alliances, Imperfect Markets, and Major-Power Trade
The “new” trade theory and standard trade theory make different predictions about the composition and distribution of trade flows. Empirical evidence suggests that an increasing share of international trade consists of differentiated products, a consequence of increasing returns to scale. Nonetheless, the existing political science literature typically assumes that the conditions of standard theory hold. As such, the literature ignores the dynami…
An Exclusive Country Club: The Effects of the Gatt on Trade, 1950–94
Using data on bilateral trade flows from both before and after World War II, this article examines the impact of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade on trade between its members and on the system of interwar trade blocs. It shows that the distribution of the benefits produced by the GATT was much more highly skewed than conventional wisdom assumes. The article also shows that the gold, Commonwealth, Reichsmark, and exchange-control blocs e…
Politics, Institutions, and Trade: Lessons of the Interwar Era
Recent studies cast doubt on the value added of international trade agreements and institutions. Using a new data set that consists of about 35,000 observations on the trade of fifty-four nations between 1919 and 1938, we examine whether this skepticism also applies to the infamous interwar trade blocs. Traditional historical accounts attribute to them a large drop in international trade and a rise in the political tensions that would later erupt…
Gulliver Untied: Entry Deterrence Under Unipolarity
That the anarchic system generates incentives for states to balance each other's power is conventional wisdom in international relations. As such, the contemporary unipolar system is an anomaly. Observers explain its existence in several ways, including the benevolence of US hegemony and the constraints international institutions impose on the exercise of US power. None of them, however, explain what is perhaps the most puzzling outcome of the So…
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