Jamie S Barkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4588261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamie S Barkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamie S |
| FAMILY NAME | Barkin |
| SIGNATURE | BARKIN J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5109-9053 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 152 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Power and Interdependence
International Organization: Theories and Institutions
This book is an introduction to the study of international organizations in the field of International Relations directed toward students in the discipline. It looks at the different ways in which IOs are studied and then applies these different modes of study to a variety of specific case studies. Do international organizations matter? What are their effects on International Relations? Where do they fit into the International Relations literatur…
Institutional Structure, National Power, and Knowledge in the International Governance of Fisheries
October 05 2022 Institutional Structure, National Power, and Knowledge in the International Governance of Fisheries Leandra R. Gonçalves 2021. Regional Fisheries Management Organizations: The Interplay between Governance and Science. Springer.Geir Hønneland. 2021. Blue Governance in the Arctic and Antarctic: Private Fisheries Certification and the Law of the Sea. Palgrave Macmillan.Finn Laursen. 2020. The Development of the EU as a Sea-Policy Act…
The Sovereignty Cartel
Sovereignty is the subject of many debates in international relations. Is it the source of state authority or a description of it? What is its history? Is it strengthening or weakening? Is it changing, and how? This book addresses these questions, but focuses on one less frequently addressed: what makes state sovereignty possible? The Sovereignty Cartel argues that sovereignty is built on state collusion – states work together to privilege sovere…
Fishing Across Disciplines
A political scientist, a lawyer, and an anthropologist walk into a sushi bar. They sit down to eat, but the bartender says apologetically that they are fished out and wonders how the bar can avoid this in the future. The political scientist claims that the area sushi bars need to cooperate better to prevent overfishing. The lawyer notes that they need to do a better job of keeping newcomers out of sushi bars to reduce the strain on the fish suppl…
Utopia and the Anthropocene
What might a politics of the Anthropocene look like? This question is distinct from asking what policy responses to climate change should be. Rather than asking what we should do moving forward, in response to environmental change, a politics of the Anthropocene imagines what a workable relationship between politics and the environment might be in an era when anthropogenic forces undermine visions of a sustainable future. The three thoughtful and…
Are liberal states greener? Political ideology and CO2 emissions in American states, 1980–2012
Complicating Carbon Markets
There was an initiative on the ballot in Washington State, in the United States, in November 2016, to create a revenue-neutral carbon tax, beginning at $15 per tonne and gradually increasing to $100 per tonne. From the perspective of economic theory, it was an ideal way to reduce carbon emissions. While it was supported by many academics, however, it was opposed by much of the state’s environmental community, not because the tax itself was insuff…
Interpretive Quantification: Methodological Explorations for Critical and Constructivist IR
Countering the growing divide between positivists who embrace quantitative, numerical approaches and post-positivist scholars who favor qualitative, interpretive approaches, J. Samuel Barkin and Laura Sjoberg argue that both methods are more widely adaptable than is commonly assumed by either camp. In Interpretive Quantification, ten highly regarded scholars in the field of International Relations apply quantitative methods and formal models to s…
Change in Global Environmental Governance
Where does change come from in the architecture of global environmental governance? To the extent that a traditional answer to this question exists, it is that states self-consciously make changes in the architecture, to meet specific cooperative goals and in response to new information about the state of the natural environment. This is the classical neoliberal, institutionalist, regime theory answer: States, understood as rational unitary actor…
When institutions can hurt you: Transparency, domestic politics, and international cooperation
Translatable? On Mixed Methods and Methodology
I argue two things here, in response to Andrew Bennett’s ‘Found in Translation: Combining Discourse Analysis with Computer Assisted Content Analysis’. The first is that to speak of a single method within any given research project is misleading. All research projects are necessarily multi-method, so our conversation should be about how to mix, not whether to do so. The second is that, while methods are necessarily mixed within research projects, …
Do we need a global fisheries management organization
Climate Policy Foundations: Science and Economics with Lessons from Monetary Regulation – By William C. Whitesell
Realist Constructivism: Rethinking International Relations Theory
Realism and constructivism, two key contemporary theoretical approaches to the study of international relations, are commonly taught as mutually exclusive ways of understanding the subject. Realist Constructivism explores the common ground between the two, and demonstrates that, rather than being in simple opposition, they have areas of both tension and overlap. There is indeed space to engage in a realist constructivism. But at the same time, th…
Money Is What Central Bankers Make of It
Money is one of those things that fits at best awkwardly into the distinction between the material and the socially constructed that underlies one of the key contemporary distinctions in international relations theory. On the one hand, money is a key element of modern economics and modern economies—it is, in this sense, intimately related to the material. But money itself is clearly an intersubjective phenomenon, based as it is on confidence rath…
Discounting the Discount Rate: Ecocentrism and Environmental Economics
As a tool for making decisions about long-term environmental policy, environmental economics does not work on its own terms. It works well as a tool for analyzing environmental policy given clear, exogenously defined costs and benefits. As such, environmental economics can work well as a tool for analyzing policy in the short term. But many of the most salient issues in international environmental politics are salient specifically because they ha…
The Counterintuitive Relationship between Globalization and Climate Change
Scholars and activists are concerned, sometimes simultaneously, with mitigation of anthropogenic climate change and the environmental effects of globalization. Many analysts argue that a solution to both problems is localization; increasing the costs of transportation should increase the cost of long-distance transportation, making local and regional exchange economically relatively more efficient. The argument here, however, is that dealing with…
Realist Constructivism
Constructivism appears to have taken a place in the literature on international relations (IR) theory in direct opposition to realism. Constructivists who claim their methodology is incompatible with realism focus on the association between realism and both materialism and rationalism. Realists who claim their paradigm is incompatible with constructivism focus for the most part on a perceived tendency for constructivists to be idealists or utopia…
Turtles and Trade: The WTO's Acceptance of Environmental Trade Restrictions
The sea turtle has become an icon ofenvironmentalist opposition to the World Trade Organization. Two decisions by the WTO in 1998 against a United States law intended to force other countries to adopt more turtle-friendly rules attracted widespread attention. A third decision in 2001 which supported the US law, however, went almost entirely unnoticed. A closer examination ofthe three decisions suggests that the WTO willingly accepts the idea ofen…
Backward Boycotts: Demand Management and Fishery Conservation
Recent efforts to conserve fisheries stocks have included such demand-side measures as consumer boycotts to reduce demand for specific species, and the promotion of aquaculture to reduce pressure on natural stocks. This article argues that these sorts of measures can be counter-productive. The economics of the commercial fishing industry are such that decreasing demand for particular species can often have the perverse effect of increasing indust…
Unilateralism and Multilateralism in International Fisheries Management
Traditional international relations theory suggests that unilateral action in pursuit of the national interest should be the first preference of states in an anarchical international system. [1] Empirically speaking, however, the actions of states are rarely purely unilateral. States often pursue international relations through bilateral negotiations and multilateral mechanisms, such as alliances, treaties, and international organizations. They d…
The Evolution of the Constitution of Sovereignty and the Emergence of Human Rights Norms
Realist Constructivism
Constructivism appears to have taken a place in the literature on international relations (IR) theory in direct opposition to realism. Constructivists who claim their methodology is incompatible with realism focus on the association between realism and both materialism and rationalism. Realists who claim their paradigm is incompatible with constructivism focus for the most part on a perceived tendency for constructivists to be idealists or utopia…
The Evolution of the Constitution of Sovereignty and the Emergence of Human Rights Norms
Turtles and Trade: The WTO's Acceptance of Environmental Trade Restrictions
The sea turtle has become an icon ofenvironmentalist opposition to the World Trade Organization. Two decisions by the WTO in 1998 against a United States law intended to force other countries to adopt more turtle-friendly rules attracted widespread attention. A third decision in 2001 which supported the US law, however, went almost entirely unnoticed. A closer examination ofthe three decisions suggests that the WTO willingly accepts the idea ofen…
Discounting the Discount Rate: Ecocentrism and Environmental Economics
As a tool for making decisions about long-term environmental policy, environmental economics does not work on its own terms. It works well as a tool for analyzing environmental policy given clear, exogenously defined costs and benefits. As such, environmental economics can work well as a tool for analyzing policy in the short term. But many of the most salient issues in international environmental politics are salient specifically because they ha…
Unilateralism and Multilateralism in International Fisheries Management
Traditional international relations theory suggests that unilateral action in pursuit of the national interest should be the first preference of states in an anarchical international system. [1] Empirically speaking, however, the actions of states are rarely purely unilateral. States often pursue international relations through bilateral negotiations and multilateral mechanisms, such as alliances, treaties, and international organizations. They d…
Fishing Across Disciplines
A political scientist, a lawyer, and an anthropologist walk into a sushi bar. They sit down to eat, but the bartender says apologetically that they are fished out and wonders how the bar can avoid this in the future. The political scientist claims that the area sushi bars need to cooperate better to prevent overfishing. The lawyer notes that they need to do a better job of keeping newcomers out of sushi bars to reduce the strain on the fish suppl…
Utopia and the Anthropocene
What might a politics of the Anthropocene look like? This question is distinct from asking what policy responses to climate change should be. Rather than asking what we should do moving forward, in response to environmental change, a politics of the Anthropocene imagines what a workable relationship between politics and the environment might be in an era when anthropogenic forces undermine visions of a sustainable future. The three thoughtful and…
When institutions can hurt you: Transparency, domestic politics, and international cooperation
Translatable? On Mixed Methods and Methodology
I argue two things here, in response to Andrew Bennett’s ‘Found in Translation: Combining Discourse Analysis with Computer Assisted Content Analysis’. The first is that to speak of a single method within any given research project is misleading. All research projects are necessarily multi-method, so our conversation should be about how to mix, not whether to do so. The second is that, while methods are necessarily mixed within research projects, …
The Counterintuitive Relationship between Globalization and Climate Change
Scholars and activists are concerned, sometimes simultaneously, with mitigation of anthropogenic climate change and the environmental effects of globalization. Many analysts argue that a solution to both problems is localization; increasing the costs of transportation should increase the cost of long-distance transportation, making local and regional exchange economically relatively more efficient. The argument here, however, is that dealing with…
The Evolution of the Constitution of Sovereignty and the Emergence of Human Rights Norms
Unilateralism and Multilateralism in International Fisheries Management
Traditional international relations theory suggests that unilateral action in pursuit of the national interest should be the first preference of states in an anarchical international system. [1] Empirically speaking, however, the actions of states are rarely purely unilateral. States often pursue international relations through bilateral negotiations and multilateral mechanisms, such as alliances, treaties, and international organizations. They d…
Backward Boycotts: Demand Management and Fishery Conservation
Recent efforts to conserve fisheries stocks have included such demand-side measures as consumer boycotts to reduce demand for specific species, and the promotion of aquaculture to reduce pressure on natural stocks. This article argues that these sorts of measures can be counter-productive. The economics of the commercial fishing industry are such that decreasing demand for particular species can often have the perverse effect of increasing indust…
Turtles and Trade: The WTO's Acceptance of Environmental Trade Restrictions
The sea turtle has become an icon ofenvironmentalist opposition to the World Trade Organization. Two decisions by the WTO in 1998 against a United States law intended to force other countries to adopt more turtle-friendly rules attracted widespread attention. A third decision in 2001 which supported the US law, however, went almost entirely unnoticed. A closer examination ofthe three decisions suggests that the WTO willingly accepts the idea ofen…
The Counterintuitive Relationship between Globalization and Climate Change
Scholars and activists are concerned, sometimes simultaneously, with mitigation of anthropogenic climate change and the environmental effects of globalization. Many analysts argue that a solution to both problems is localization; increasing the costs of transportation should increase the cost of long-distance transportation, making local and regional exchange economically relatively more efficient. The argument here, however, is that dealing with…
Realist Constructivism
Constructivism appears to have taken a place in the literature on international relations (IR) theory in direct opposition to realism. Constructivists who claim their methodology is incompatible with realism focus on the association between realism and both materialism and rationalism. Realists who claim their paradigm is incompatible with constructivism focus for the most part on a perceived tendency for constructivists to be idealists or utopia…
Discounting the Discount Rate: Ecocentrism and Environmental Economics
As a tool for making decisions about long-term environmental policy, environmental economics does not work on its own terms. It works well as a tool for analyzing environmental policy given clear, exogenously defined costs and benefits. As such, environmental economics can work well as a tool for analyzing policy in the short term. But many of the most salient issues in international environmental politics are salient specifically because they ha…
Realist Constructivism: Rethinking International Relations Theory
Realism and constructivism, two key contemporary theoretical approaches to the study of international relations, are commonly taught as mutually exclusive ways of understanding the subject. Realist Constructivism explores the common ground between the two, and demonstrates that, rather than being in simple opposition, they have areas of both tension and overlap. There is indeed space to engage in a realist constructivism. But at the same time, th…
Money Is What Central Bankers Make of It
Money is one of those things that fits at best awkwardly into the distinction between the material and the socially constructed that underlies one of the key contemporary distinctions in international relations theory. On the one hand, money is a key element of modern economics and modern economies—it is, in this sense, intimately related to the material. But money itself is clearly an intersubjective phenomenon, based as it is on confidence rath…
Climate Policy Foundations: Science and Economics with Lessons from Monetary Regulation – By William C. Whitesell
Do we need a global fisheries management organization
Change in Global Environmental Governance
Where does change come from in the architecture of global environmental governance? To the extent that a traditional answer to this question exists, it is that states self-consciously make changes in the architecture, to meet specific cooperative goals and in response to new information about the state of the natural environment. This is the classical neoliberal, institutionalist, regime theory answer: States, understood as rational unitary actor…
When institutions can hurt you: Transparency, domestic politics, and international cooperation
Translatable? On Mixed Methods and Methodology
I argue two things here, in response to Andrew Bennett’s ‘Found in Translation: Combining Discourse Analysis with Computer Assisted Content Analysis’. The first is that to speak of a single method within any given research project is misleading. All research projects are necessarily multi-method, so our conversation should be about how to mix, not whether to do so. The second is that, while methods are necessarily mixed within research projects, …
Complicating Carbon Markets
There was an initiative on the ballot in Washington State, in the United States, in November 2016, to create a revenue-neutral carbon tax, beginning at $15 per tonne and gradually increasing to $100 per tonne. From the perspective of economic theory, it was an ideal way to reduce carbon emissions. While it was supported by many academics, however, it was opposed by much of the state’s environmental community, not because the tax itself was insuff…
Interpretive Quantification: Methodological Explorations for Critical and Constructivist IR
Countering the growing divide between positivists who embrace quantitative, numerical approaches and post-positivist scholars who favor qualitative, interpretive approaches, J. Samuel Barkin and Laura Sjoberg argue that both methods are more widely adaptable than is commonly assumed by either camp. In Interpretive Quantification, ten highly regarded scholars in the field of International Relations apply quantitative methods and formal models to s…
Are liberal states greener? Political ideology and CO2 emissions in American states, 1980–2012
Utopia and the Anthropocene
What might a politics of the Anthropocene look like? This question is distinct from asking what policy responses to climate change should be. Rather than asking what we should do moving forward, in response to environmental change, a politics of the Anthropocene imagines what a workable relationship between politics and the environment might be in an era when anthropogenic forces undermine visions of a sustainable future. The three thoughtful and…
The Sovereignty Cartel
Sovereignty is the subject of many debates in international relations. Is it the source of state authority or a description of it? What is its history? Is it strengthening or weakening? Is it changing, and how? This book addresses these questions, but focuses on one less frequently addressed: what makes state sovereignty possible? The Sovereignty Cartel argues that sovereignty is built on state collusion – states work together to privilege sovere…
Fishing Across Disciplines
A political scientist, a lawyer, and an anthropologist walk into a sushi bar. They sit down to eat, but the bartender says apologetically that they are fished out and wonders how the bar can avoid this in the future. The political scientist claims that the area sushi bars need to cooperate better to prevent overfishing. The lawyer notes that they need to do a better job of keeping newcomers out of sushi bars to reduce the strain on the fish suppl…
Institutional Structure, National Power, and Knowledge in the International Governance of Fisheries
October 05 2022 Institutional Structure, National Power, and Knowledge in the International Governance of Fisheries Leandra R. Gonçalves 2021. Regional Fisheries Management Organizations: The Interplay between Governance and Science. Springer.Geir Hønneland. 2021. Blue Governance in the Arctic and Antarctic: Private Fisheries Certification and the Law of the Sea. Palgrave Macmillan.Finn Laursen. 2020. The Development of the EU as a Sea-Policy Act…
Power and Interdependence
International Organization: Theories and Institutions
This book is an introduction to the study of international organizations in the field of International Relations directed toward students in the discipline. It looks at the different ways in which IOs are studied and then applies these different modes of study to a variety of specific case studies. Do international organizations matter? What are their effects on International Relations? Where do they fit into the International Relations literatur…
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