Steven Weber
Biographic Data
| ID | 3642602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Weber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Weber |
| SIGNATURE | WEBER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8164-7767 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 150 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Web site blocking as a proxy of policy alignment
This work introduces a new metric of policy alignment between states: Web site blocking. Intuitively, we measure the degree to which states block similar content. This metric speaks to the flow of information in the digital layer of international politics, an element of international trade and cooperation that existing metrics fail to capture. In addition, our measure can be constantly scraped and updated, offering a higher temporal resolution th…
Bloc by Bloc
Globalization is taking a step backward. What, then, is the best way to organize a global enterprise? The key, Steven Weber explains, is to prepare for a world increasingly made up of competing regions with distinct rules and standards. This new condition could be more prosperous, but there will also be more friction and therefore more risk.
China’s long game in techno-nationalism
The passage of China’s national cybersecurity law in June 2017 has been interpreted as an unprecedented impediment to the operation of foreign firms in the country, with its new requirements for data localization, network operators’ cooperation with law enforcement officials, and online content restrictions, among others. Although the law’s scope is indeed broader than that of any previous regulation, the process through which it was drafted and …
The new world of data
The development and deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly emerging as the next major step in the ongoing evolution of the digital society and economy. To gain better insight and foresight into key characteristics that will differentiate this more intensely connected future from the present, we shift the focus of attention in this paper from the Internet of ‘things’ per se, to the data that the Internet of Things will generate. We put …
National Security Studies and War Potential of Nations
An analysis of Gavi, the Global Fund and World Bank support for human resources for health in developing countries
Shortages, geographic imbalances and poor performance of health workers pose major challenges for improving health service delivery in developing countries. In response, multilateral agencies have increasingly recognized the need to invest in human resources for health (HRH) to assist countries in achieving their health system goals. In this paper we analyse the HRH-related activities of three agencies: the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immuni…
Taking Soft Power Seriously
The term soft power is entrenched in the theory and practice of American foreign policy, yet scholars have not yet developed, or empirically tested, a theory about the conditions under which governments can use soft power to their advantage—and that makes good policy hard to design. Drawing on research from the fields of communications, social psychology, and international relations theory, we develop a theory about the conditions under which sta…
The International Implications of China's Fledgling Regulatory State
The Success of Open Source
Weber argues that ensuring free distribution of code among computer programmers can create a more effective process for developing intellectual products. He suggests that the success of open source is not a freakish exception to economic principles and explains the political and economic dynamics of this critical market development.
A modest proposal for Nato expansion
Creating a pan-European equity market
The creation of a pan-European stock market (EASDAQ) aimed at the entrepreneurial, high-growth company sector is a significant capital market and institutional innovation in Europe. Despite its similarity to the American NASDAQ market, EASDAQ (which began trading in late 1996) is not the outcome of a causal story about institutional convergence, driven by efficiency pressures that accompany the 'globalization' of finance. Nor is it a result of co…
International Organizations and the Pursuit of Justice in the World Economy
Evaluating the role of international organizations (IOs) in promoting social justice in a globalizing international political economy, this essay presents and defends four propositions: IOs are in a different, and more vulnerable, political space vis-à-vis globalization than are nation-states, firms, nongovernmental organizations, or labor unions; Central perceptions about problems of social justice in the context of globalization common to many …
God Gave Physics the Easy Problems
For conceptual and empirical reasons the quest for predictive theory rests on a mistaken analogy between physical and social phenomena. Evolutionary biology is a more productive analogy for social science. We explore the value of this analogy in its `hard' and `soft' versions, and examine the implications of both for theory and research in International Relations. We develop the case for forward `tracking' of International Relations on the basis …
Organizing International Politics
Changes in the meaning of sovereignty are at the center of intersecting discussions between comparative and international politics. This article uses open-system perspectives from organization theory to move beyond arguments over the erosion or resilience of sovereignty, toward more substantive questions about the nature of the boundaries of political actors, and to frame the possibility that changes in world politics are constituting new actors …
Seeds of urbanism
Palaeoethnobotanical evidence reveals that there was increasing emphasis on greater varieties of species and cropping practices in the changing subsistence of the Indus civilization: agricultural intensification is discussed in relation to social and environmental changes
Five scenarios of the Israel‐Palestinian relationship in 2002
Author(s): Stein, JG; Barnett, M; Frankel, B; Gause, G; Gerner, DJ; Herrmann, R; Jentleson, BW; Kaye, DD; Lebow, RN; Lynch, M; Solingen, E; Spiro, DE; Sylvan, DA; Weber, S
A certain idea of nuclear weapons
Counterfactuals, Past and Future
Prediction and the middle east peace process
(1997). Prediction and the middle east peace process. Security Studies: Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 167-179
The End of the Business Cycle
of continuing and sometimes enormous fluctuations in economic activity. Business cycles?expansions and contractions across most sectors of an economy?have come to be taken as a fact of life. But modern economies operate differently than nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century industrial economies. Changes in technology, ideology, employment, and finance, along with the globalization of production and consumption, have reduced the volatilit…
Debate
The most important question about EMU that faces European decision makers is not how to achieve monetary union, 1 but simply this: why do it at all? What is EMU for, and what is it supposed to achieve? Answers to those questions were quite clear in the 1980s. But the end of the Cold War changed drastically European political and security issues, that powerfully frame the economic implications in the EMU debate. This short essay discusses a critic…
Origins of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
In post–cold war Europe, international institutions associated with an earlier era of U.S. hegemony in the Western hemisphere continue to exist and in some cases are playing a significant role in managing a broad array of challenges. New institutions are also being created to manage new challenges. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) may be the most visible example. On 29 May 1990, forty states and two European organizatio…
When Illness Strikes the Leader
Origins of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
In post–cold war Europe, international institutions associated with an earlier era of U.S. hegemony in the Western hemisphere continue to exist and in some cases are playing a significant role in managing a broad array of challenges. New institutions are also being created to manage new challenges. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) may be the most visible example. On 29 May 1990, forty states and two European organizatio…
God Gave Physics the Easy Problems
For conceptual and empirical reasons the quest for predictive theory rests on a mistaken analogy between physical and social phenomena. Evolutionary biology is a more productive analogy for social science. We explore the value of this analogy in its `hard' and `soft' versions, and examine the implications of both for theory and research in International Relations. We develop the case for forward `tracking' of International Relations on the basis …
The International Implications of China's Fledgling Regulatory State
Seeds of urbanism
Palaeoethnobotanical evidence reveals that there was increasing emphasis on greater varieties of species and cropping practices in the changing subsistence of the Indus civilization: agricultural intensification is discussed in relation to social and environmental changes
Organizing International Politics
Changes in the meaning of sovereignty are at the center of intersecting discussions between comparative and international politics. This article uses open-system perspectives from organization theory to move beyond arguments over the erosion or resilience of sovereignty, toward more substantive questions about the nature of the boundaries of political actors, and to frame the possibility that changes in world politics are constituting new actors …
Taking Soft Power Seriously
The term soft power is entrenched in the theory and practice of American foreign policy, yet scholars have not yet developed, or empirically tested, a theory about the conditions under which governments can use soft power to their advantage—and that makes good policy hard to design. Drawing on research from the fields of communications, social psychology, and international relations theory, we develop a theory about the conditions under which sta…
Prediction and the middle east peace process
(1997). Prediction and the middle east peace process. Security Studies: Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 167-179
The End of the Business Cycle
of continuing and sometimes enormous fluctuations in economic activity. Business cycles?expansions and contractions across most sectors of an economy?have come to be taken as a fact of life. But modern economies operate differently than nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century industrial economies. Changes in technology, ideology, employment, and finance, along with the globalization of production and consumption, have reduced the volatilit…
An analysis of Gavi, the Global Fund and World Bank support for human resources for health in developing countries
Shortages, geographic imbalances and poor performance of health workers pose major challenges for improving health service delivery in developing countries. In response, multilateral agencies have increasingly recognized the need to invest in human resources for health (HRH) to assist countries in achieving their health system goals. In this paper we analyse the HRH-related activities of three agencies: the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immuni…
Creating a pan-European equity market
The creation of a pan-European stock market (EASDAQ) aimed at the entrepreneurial, high-growth company sector is a significant capital market and institutional innovation in Europe. Despite its similarity to the American NASDAQ market, EASDAQ (which began trading in late 1996) is not the outcome of a causal story about institutional convergence, driven by efficiency pressures that accompany the 'globalization' of finance. Nor is it a result of co…
A certain idea of nuclear weapons
Five scenarios of the Israel‐Palestinian relationship in 2002
Author(s): Stein, JG; Barnett, M; Frankel, B; Gause, G; Gerner, DJ; Herrmann, R; Jentleson, BW; Kaye, DD; Lebow, RN; Lynch, M; Solingen, E; Spiro, DE; Sylvan, DA; Weber, S
When Illness Strikes the Leader
A modest proposal for Nato expansion
Origins of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
In post–cold war Europe, international institutions associated with an earlier era of U.S. hegemony in the Western hemisphere continue to exist and in some cases are playing a significant role in managing a broad array of challenges. New institutions are also being created to manage new challenges. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) may be the most visible example. On 29 May 1990, forty states and two European organizatio…
When Illness Strikes the Leader
Debate
The most important question about EMU that faces European decision makers is not how to achieve monetary union, 1 but simply this: why do it at all? What is EMU for, and what is it supposed to achieve? Answers to those questions were quite clear in the 1980s. But the end of the Cold War changed drastically European political and security issues, that powerfully frame the economic implications in the EMU debate. This short essay discusses a critic…
Counterfactuals, Past and Future
Prediction and the middle east peace process
(1997). Prediction and the middle east peace process. Security Studies: Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 167-179
The End of the Business Cycle
of continuing and sometimes enormous fluctuations in economic activity. Business cycles?expansions and contractions across most sectors of an economy?have come to be taken as a fact of life. But modern economies operate differently than nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century industrial economies. Changes in technology, ideology, employment, and finance, along with the globalization of production and consumption, have reduced the volatilit…
Five scenarios of the Israel‐Palestinian relationship in 2002
Author(s): Stein, JG; Barnett, M; Frankel, B; Gause, G; Gerner, DJ; Herrmann, R; Jentleson, BW; Kaye, DD; Lebow, RN; Lynch, M; Solingen, E; Spiro, DE; Sylvan, DA; Weber, S
A certain idea of nuclear weapons
Organizing International Politics
Changes in the meaning of sovereignty are at the center of intersecting discussions between comparative and international politics. This article uses open-system perspectives from organization theory to move beyond arguments over the erosion or resilience of sovereignty, toward more substantive questions about the nature of the boundaries of political actors, and to frame the possibility that changes in world politics are constituting new actors …
Seeds of urbanism
Palaeoethnobotanical evidence reveals that there was increasing emphasis on greater varieties of species and cropping practices in the changing subsistence of the Indus civilization: agricultural intensification is discussed in relation to social and environmental changes
A modest proposal for Nato expansion
Creating a pan-European equity market
The creation of a pan-European stock market (EASDAQ) aimed at the entrepreneurial, high-growth company sector is a significant capital market and institutional innovation in Europe. Despite its similarity to the American NASDAQ market, EASDAQ (which began trading in late 1996) is not the outcome of a causal story about institutional convergence, driven by efficiency pressures that accompany the 'globalization' of finance. Nor is it a result of co…
International Organizations and the Pursuit of Justice in the World Economy
Evaluating the role of international organizations (IOs) in promoting social justice in a globalizing international political economy, this essay presents and defends four propositions: IOs are in a different, and more vulnerable, political space vis-à-vis globalization than are nation-states, firms, nongovernmental organizations, or labor unions; Central perceptions about problems of social justice in the context of globalization common to many …
God Gave Physics the Easy Problems
For conceptual and empirical reasons the quest for predictive theory rests on a mistaken analogy between physical and social phenomena. Evolutionary biology is a more productive analogy for social science. We explore the value of this analogy in its `hard' and `soft' versions, and examine the implications of both for theory and research in International Relations. We develop the case for forward `tracking' of International Relations on the basis …
The Success of Open Source
Weber argues that ensuring free distribution of code among computer programmers can create a more effective process for developing intellectual products. He suggests that the success of open source is not a freakish exception to economic principles and explains the political and economic dynamics of this critical market development.
The International Implications of China's Fledgling Regulatory State
Taking Soft Power Seriously
The term soft power is entrenched in the theory and practice of American foreign policy, yet scholars have not yet developed, or empirically tested, a theory about the conditions under which governments can use soft power to their advantage—and that makes good policy hard to design. Drawing on research from the fields of communications, social psychology, and international relations theory, we develop a theory about the conditions under which sta…
An analysis of Gavi, the Global Fund and World Bank support for human resources for health in developing countries
Shortages, geographic imbalances and poor performance of health workers pose major challenges for improving health service delivery in developing countries. In response, multilateral agencies have increasingly recognized the need to invest in human resources for health (HRH) to assist countries in achieving their health system goals. In this paper we analyse the HRH-related activities of three agencies: the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immuni…
National Security Studies and War Potential of Nations
The new world of data
The development and deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly emerging as the next major step in the ongoing evolution of the digital society and economy. To gain better insight and foresight into key characteristics that will differentiate this more intensely connected future from the present, we shift the focus of attention in this paper from the Internet of ‘things’ per se, to the data that the Internet of Things will generate. We put …
China’s long game in techno-nationalism
The passage of China’s national cybersecurity law in June 2017 has been interpreted as an unprecedented impediment to the operation of foreign firms in the country, with its new requirements for data localization, network operators’ cooperation with law enforcement officials, and online content restrictions, among others. Although the law’s scope is indeed broader than that of any previous regulation, the process through which it was drafted and …
Bloc by Bloc
Globalization is taking a step backward. What, then, is the best way to organize a global enterprise? The key, Steven Weber explains, is to prepare for a world increasingly made up of competing regions with distinct rules and standards. This new condition could be more prosperous, but there will also be more friction and therefore more risk.
Web site blocking as a proxy of policy alignment
This work introduces a new metric of policy alignment between states: Web site blocking. Intuitively, we measure the degree to which states block similar content. This metric speaks to the flow of information in the digital layer of international politics, an element of international trade and cooperation that existing metrics fail to capture. In addition, our measure can be constantly scraped and updated, offering a higher temporal resolution th…
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