Kendall Stiles
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629066 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kendall Stiles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kendall |
| FAMILY NAME | Stiles |
| SIGNATURE | STILES K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5850-3848 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Multilateralism in a Time of Crisis
The 75th Anniversary of UN Peacekeeping
Who commits the most to Nato? It depends on how we measure commitment
Studies of NATO rely heavily on military spending as a fraction of GDP as the key indicator of members' contribution to the alliance, but a growing number of scholars have challenged this approach. We suggest that each member's public goods provision is a better measure of commitment to the alliance. In the case of post-Cold War NATO, out-of-area troop deployments (adjusted for population) constitute one of the strongest indicators of a state's c…
The 75th Anniversary of the United Nations
Who is keeping the sea safe? Testing theories of international law compliance
Theories of international law compliance have blossomed in recent years and many have been subjected to rigorous testing. In this exercise, we argue that theories based on managerial models are particularly promising in explaining why certain states comply more readily with international rules governing the safety of international shipping. Specifically, we test a wide range of variables drawn from interest-driven theories, as well as society-dri…
On the Crossing of Rubicons
Journal Article On the Crossing of Rubicons: Norm Dissemination and Policy Idiosyncrasy in the UK Get access Kendall W. Stiles, Kendall W. Stiles KENDALL W. STILES is an associate professor of political science at Brigham Young University, where he studies and teaches international law and political economy. This article is part of a larger project on international law and its effects on national policy and practice. Search for other works by thi…
Compliance with International Law
Are certain countries more likely to comply with international law than others? History has provided an interesting test of several competing theories of international rule compliance in the form of the UN Security Council's Resolution 1373 to combat international terrorism. We apply a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods to test the salience of various national characteristics — domestic political culture, national interests, regionalism,…
The Dissemination of International Liberal Norms
The dominant theory of international liberal norm-dissemination argues that states will tend to move from rejection of international norms to internationalization through gradual, predictable stages. The presumption is that the mass public consistently presses the state (in partnership with international norm carriers) for greater liberalization. This theory is shown to have serious weaknesses when applied to mature democracies. A study of the UK…
The Power of Procedure and the Procedures of the Powerful
This research attempts to answer the question: to what extent do institutional procedures matter in shaping international organization policies? Little empirical evidence has been applied to the question, in part because structural forces predominate in most theories and because it is difficult empirically to isolate the procedural variable. The UN's response to the 11 September 2001 attacks, in the context of its treatment of the terrorism issue…
The IMF and Economic Development
The IMF and Economic Development. By James Raymond Vreeland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 216p. $70.00 cloth, $22.00 paper. This insightful and carefully researched work by James Raymond Vreeland should end once and for all the debate on whether participation in an International Monetary Fund program tends to improve or depress economic growth. The answer is a resounding no in that, on average, economic growth is roughly 1.5% slowe…
The Dangers of Running up the Score
International Support for NGOs in Bangladesh
U.S. Responses to Defeat in International Courts
I propose, in the present work, to begin the process of developing a testable, generalizable model of foreign policy decision-making that accounts for both domestic and international factors. The framework is designed to illustrate how to combine broad theoretical propositions with contextual, situation-based decisions. It provides an example of how to bridge game-theoretic formulations with case study material in order to develop mid-level causa…
U. S. Responses to Defeat in International Courts
Civil Society Empowerment and Multilateral Donors
Since the mid-1980s, development experts have turned their attention from such conventional notions as structural adjustment and basic needs toward a new approach that emphasizes participatory, small scale, community-based development involving nongovernmental organi zations (NGOs) and grassroots associations. A good descriptor of this ap proach would be the society model. It attempts to reverse a long-standing policy of placing the recipient gov…
Negotiating Institutional Reform
The ambivalent hegemon
Hegemonic stability theory and its variants point to the dominance of the United States and its commitment to multilateralism and liberalism in the early post‐Second World War period as the key ingredients to the establishment of a liberal world trading order as embodied in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The present study challenges this image on several fronts by focusing on the GATT multilateral trade negotiations between 19…
After Consensus, What? Performance Criteria for the UN in the Post-Cold War Era
Not since 1945 has the UN enjoyed such support across the East-West divide as today. Cold War standards to evaluate UN performance are now of little value, but there is little general and theoretical discussion of alternative criteria. In an effort to clarify the issues at stake in what is sure to be a lively debate, the authors derive four distinct performance criteria extant in the literature on UN performance. These criteria include (1) declar…
IMF conditionality
Argentina's Bargaining with the IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently published a pamphlet on the question of whether the IMF, as an institution, imposes austerity on debtors. The response focused on the second half of the question and argued that IMF adjustment programs were, in fact, not systematically austere. However, from a political perspective, the first half of the question is much more provocative. Does the IMF "impose" its will on member states, and, if so, h…
International Support for NGOs in Bangladesh
Compliance with International Law
Are certain countries more likely to comply with international law than others? History has provided an interesting test of several competing theories of international rule compliance in the form of the UN Security Council's Resolution 1373 to combat international terrorism. We apply a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods to test the salience of various national characteristics — domestic political culture, national interests, regionalism,…
IMF conditionality
The Power of Procedure and the Procedures of the Powerful
This research attempts to answer the question: to what extent do institutional procedures matter in shaping international organization policies? Little empirical evidence has been applied to the question, in part because structural forces predominate in most theories and because it is difficult empirically to isolate the procedural variable. The UN's response to the 11 September 2001 attacks, in the context of its treatment of the terrorism issue…
Civil Society Empowerment and Multilateral Donors
Since the mid-1980s, development experts have turned their attention from such conventional notions as structural adjustment and basic needs toward a new approach that emphasizes participatory, small scale, community-based development involving nongovernmental organi zations (NGOs) and grassroots associations. A good descriptor of this ap proach would be the society model. It attempts to reverse a long-standing policy of placing the recipient gov…
Argentina's Bargaining with the IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently published a pamphlet on the question of whether the IMF, as an institution, imposes austerity on debtors. The response focused on the second half of the question and argued that IMF adjustment programs were, in fact, not systematically austere. However, from a political perspective, the first half of the question is much more provocative. Does the IMF "impose" its will on member states, and, if so, h…
U.S. Responses to Defeat in International Courts
I propose, in the present work, to begin the process of developing a testable, generalizable model of foreign policy decision-making that accounts for both domestic and international factors. The framework is designed to illustrate how to combine broad theoretical propositions with contextual, situation-based decisions. It provides an example of how to bridge game-theoretic formulations with case study material in order to develop mid-level causa…
The 75th Anniversary of UN Peacekeeping
Who commits the most to Nato? It depends on how we measure commitment
Studies of NATO rely heavily on military spending as a fraction of GDP as the key indicator of members' contribution to the alliance, but a growing number of scholars have challenged this approach. We suggest that each member's public goods provision is a better measure of commitment to the alliance. In the case of post-Cold War NATO, out-of-area troop deployments (adjusted for population) constitute one of the strongest indicators of a state's c…
The 75th Anniversary of the United Nations
Who is keeping the sea safe? Testing theories of international law compliance
Theories of international law compliance have blossomed in recent years and many have been subjected to rigorous testing. In this exercise, we argue that theories based on managerial models are particularly promising in explaining why certain states comply more readily with international rules governing the safety of international shipping. Specifically, we test a wide range of variables drawn from interest-driven theories, as well as society-dri…
The ambivalent hegemon
Hegemonic stability theory and its variants point to the dominance of the United States and its commitment to multilateralism and liberalism in the early post‐Second World War period as the key ingredients to the establishment of a liberal world trading order as embodied in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The present study challenges this image on several fronts by focusing on the GATT multilateral trade negotiations between 19…
Argentina's Bargaining with the IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently published a pamphlet on the question of whether the IMF, as an institution, imposes austerity on debtors. The response focused on the second half of the question and argued that IMF adjustment programs were, in fact, not systematically austere. However, from a political perspective, the first half of the question is much more provocative. Does the IMF "impose" its will on member states, and, if so, h…
IMF conditionality
After Consensus, What? Performance Criteria for the UN in the Post-Cold War Era
Not since 1945 has the UN enjoyed such support across the East-West divide as today. Cold War standards to evaluate UN performance are now of little value, but there is little general and theoretical discussion of alternative criteria. In an effort to clarify the issues at stake in what is sure to be a lively debate, the authors derive four distinct performance criteria extant in the literature on UN performance. These criteria include (1) declar…
The ambivalent hegemon
Hegemonic stability theory and its variants point to the dominance of the United States and its commitment to multilateralism and liberalism in the early post‐Second World War period as the key ingredients to the establishment of a liberal world trading order as embodied in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The present study challenges this image on several fronts by focusing on the GATT multilateral trade negotiations between 19…
Negotiating Institutional Reform
Civil Society Empowerment and Multilateral Donors
Since the mid-1980s, development experts have turned their attention from such conventional notions as structural adjustment and basic needs toward a new approach that emphasizes participatory, small scale, community-based development involving nongovernmental organi zations (NGOs) and grassroots associations. A good descriptor of this ap proach would be the society model. It attempts to reverse a long-standing policy of placing the recipient gov…
U.S. Responses to Defeat in International Courts
I propose, in the present work, to begin the process of developing a testable, generalizable model of foreign policy decision-making that accounts for both domestic and international factors. The framework is designed to illustrate how to combine broad theoretical propositions with contextual, situation-based decisions. It provides an example of how to bridge game-theoretic formulations with case study material in order to develop mid-level causa…
U. S. Responses to Defeat in International Courts
The Dangers of Running up the Score
International Support for NGOs in Bangladesh
The IMF and Economic Development
The IMF and Economic Development. By James Raymond Vreeland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 216p. $70.00 cloth, $22.00 paper. This insightful and carefully researched work by James Raymond Vreeland should end once and for all the debate on whether participation in an International Monetary Fund program tends to improve or depress economic growth. The answer is a resounding no in that, on average, economic growth is roughly 1.5% slowe…
Compliance with International Law
Are certain countries more likely to comply with international law than others? History has provided an interesting test of several competing theories of international rule compliance in the form of the UN Security Council's Resolution 1373 to combat international terrorism. We apply a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods to test the salience of various national characteristics — domestic political culture, national interests, regionalism,…
The Dissemination of International Liberal Norms
The dominant theory of international liberal norm-dissemination argues that states will tend to move from rejection of international norms to internationalization through gradual, predictable stages. The presumption is that the mass public consistently presses the state (in partnership with international norm carriers) for greater liberalization. This theory is shown to have serious weaknesses when applied to mature democracies. A study of the UK…
The Power of Procedure and the Procedures of the Powerful
This research attempts to answer the question: to what extent do institutional procedures matter in shaping international organization policies? Little empirical evidence has been applied to the question, in part because structural forces predominate in most theories and because it is difficult empirically to isolate the procedural variable. The UN's response to the 11 September 2001 attacks, in the context of its treatment of the terrorism issue…
On the Crossing of Rubicons
Journal Article On the Crossing of Rubicons: Norm Dissemination and Policy Idiosyncrasy in the UK Get access Kendall W. Stiles, Kendall W. Stiles KENDALL W. STILES is an associate professor of political science at Brigham Young University, where he studies and teaches international law and political economy. This article is part of a larger project on international law and its effects on national policy and practice. Search for other works by thi…
Who is keeping the sea safe? Testing theories of international law compliance
Theories of international law compliance have blossomed in recent years and many have been subjected to rigorous testing. In this exercise, we argue that theories based on managerial models are particularly promising in explaining why certain states comply more readily with international rules governing the safety of international shipping. Specifically, we test a wide range of variables drawn from interest-driven theories, as well as society-dri…
The 75th Anniversary of the United Nations
Who commits the most to Nato? It depends on how we measure commitment
Studies of NATO rely heavily on military spending as a fraction of GDP as the key indicator of members' contribution to the alliance, but a growing number of scholars have challenged this approach. We suggest that each member's public goods provision is a better measure of commitment to the alliance. In the case of post-Cold War NATO, out-of-area troop deployments (adjusted for population) constitute one of the strongest indicators of a state's c…
The 75th Anniversary of UN Peacekeeping
Multilateralism in a Time of Crisis
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