Ethan B Kapstein
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 708792 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ethan B Kapstein |
| PRENOMES | Ethan B |
| SOBRENOME | Kapstein |
| ASSINATURA | KAPSTEIN E B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3134-0361 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 335 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Side Payments in World Politics
Scholars of world politics frequently highlight the importance of side payments in promoting international cooperation across a broad array of issue areas, from military alliances to environmental agreements. However, in order to be effective, side payments must be credible, meaning that they require the parties to make “binding agreements.” But what does it mean to make a “binding agreement” in the context of world politics? How can such agreeme…
The Atlantic Alliance
Soft Power as Constituency Cultivation
How do foreign agents, representing countries or other political actors, exert influence in another country? While scholars have directed considerable theoretical and empirical attention toward “hard power” (e.g., coercion [explicit or implicit] and corruption/bribery), far less consideration has been devoted to understanding the theoretical mechanisms associated with “soft” channels of political influence. We develop a novel theory of soft power…
Chinese investment and elite sentiment in Southeast Asia
Recent years have seen growing concerns expressed by political leaders throughout the west about rising Chinese “influence” around the world. Yet, measuring political influence remains a challenge to social science. In this paper, we seek to advance our understanding of influence by comparing the expressed attitudes towards China of politicians within three Southeast Asian states (the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia) whose electoral district…
Military Allies and Economic Conflict
Economic conflicts among military allies may undermine their strategic alignment. Economic disputes in a wide range of areas – from weapons procurement to international trade to access to natural resources – go back to the very beginning of NATO. In recognition of these challenges, Article 2 of the NATO treaty calls upon the member states to ‘eliminate conflict in their ... economic policies’. Examining the causes of such conflicts and efforts to…
Exporting Capitalism
The US government has long sought investment opportunities for US companies in developing countries. But the results have been mixed: firms have preferred to invest in the industrial world and developing-world leaders have not always welcomed foreign investment. Violence and the presence of natural resources have also hindered foreign development.
Exporting Capitalism
Private Enterprise, International Development, and the Cold War
This article sheds light on the role of foreign direct investment as an instrument for economic development and, in turn, for the advancement of U.S. foreign policy goals during the Cold War. From the earliest days of the Cold War, and especially after the U.S.-Soviet competition for influence in the developing world began in the 1950s, the United States sought to promote private enterprise on behalf of U.S. goals. In the late 1940s and early 195…
The Industrial Organization of the Syrian Civil War
The Syrian Civil War represents an extreme outlier in terms of the number of insurgent groups which have been engaged in the fighting. These groups have also been remarkably persistent over time, partly due to the fact that rebel in-fighting has been relatively contained. They have also targeted civilians far less than the Syrian Army. These stylized facts run counter to much of the existing literature on multi-party civil wars, which has emphasi…
Success and Failure in Counterinsurgency Campaigns
Why did U.S.-assisted counterinsurgency (COIN) efforts succeed in the Philippines in the 1950s yet falter in Vietnam a decade later? Why were counterinsurgents able to score a quick victory in Venezuela in the early 1960s but confronted by a long and bloody conflict in El Salvador in the 1970s and 1980s? In seeking to answer these questions, this article provides theoretical motivation for the oft-made claim that U.S. counterinsurgency strategy h…
Who's Arming Asia
The United States’ dominance in arms exports to Asia, a source of regional influence, is under threat
Social Movements and Market Transformations
When AIDS activists launched their campaign for developing world access to antiretroviral therapy in the late 1990s, this treatment cost on average $10,000 per patient per year. More than a decade later, drug prices for “first line” therapies hovered around $100 per patient per year, and nearly 13 million people in low- and middle-income countries were receiving these life-extending medications. By contrast, climate activists during the same time…
Land and Rebellion
A study of land reform illuminates the paradox of economic instruments in counter-insurgency. Where redistributive demands are at the core of a rebellion, foreign powerswill find it difficult to respond effectively
Measuring Progress in Modern Warfare
In a counter-insurgency, metrics should seek to capture the population's beliefs about the future. Economic choice during periods of intense conflict are a reasonable proxy for such beliefs
Economic Justice in an Unfair World
Recent years have seen a growing number of activists, scholars, and even policymakers claiming that the global economy is unfair and unjust, particularly to developing countries and the poor within them. But what would a fair or just global economy look like? Economic Justice in an Unfair World seeks to answer that question by presenting a bold and provocative argument that emphasizes economic relations among states. The book provides a market-or…
The Fate of Young Democracies
The recent backlash against democracy in such countries as Bolivia, Venezuela, Russia, and Georgia poses renewed concerns about the viability of this regime type in the developing world. Drawing on a unique data set of every democratization episode since 1960, this book explores the underlying reasons for backsliding and reversal in the world's fledgling democracies and offers some proposals with respect to what the international community might …
The Threat to Young Democracies
Recent backsliding in such countries as Bolivia, Venezuela, Georgia and Russia has raised concerns about the viability of democracy in the developing world. Understanding why fledgling democracies sometimes fail is essential for determining what the international community might do to help such states stay on track toward political stability. In particular, public officials in both the industrial and developing worlds should adopt the policy mix …
Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy
Based on a new data set of democratizations occurring between 1960 and 2004, this paper explores the reasons for reversals in young democracies. Adverse initial conditions including poverty, inequality, and ethnic fragmentation are associated with the failure of democracy, but the relationship is not deterministic. Likewise, numerous young democracies have survived in spite of disastrous economic performance. Political institutions play a key rol…
Fairness Considerations in World Politics
Journal Article Fairness Considerations in World Politics: Lessons from International Trade Negotiations Get access Ethan B. Kapstein Ethan B. Kapstein ETHAN B. KAPSTEIN is Paul Dubrule Professor of Sustainable Development at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France) and Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development (Washington DC). His latest book is Economic Justice in an Unfair World: Toward a Level Playing Field. Search for other works by this au…
Economic justice in an unfair world
Questions of Fairness
The New Global Slave Trade
WHEN MOST people think about slaveryif they think about it at all-they probably assume that it was eliminated during the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth. Slavery and the global slave trade continue to thrive to this day; in fact, it is likely that more people are being trafficked across borders against their will now than at any point in the past. This human stain is not just a minor blot on the rich tapestry of inte…
Power in Global Governance
This edited volume examines power in its different dimensions in global governance. Scholars tend to underestimate the importance of power in international relations because of a failure to see its multiple forms. To expand the conceptual aperture, this book presents and employs a taxonomy that alerts scholars to the different kinds of power that are present in world politics. A team of international scholars demonstrate how these different forms…
Models of International Economic Justice
Articulating and examining the likely consequences of different theoretical and policy approaches to economic justice serves to highlight potential trade-offs and conflicts among them, and helps us to think more carefully about these trade-offs and what their consequences might be. Some of us, for example, might support a liberal free trade regime because we believe it promotes greater income equality among countries . But we might also reasonabl…
Capturing Fortress Europe
Between power and purpose
In the early 1980s, when the debt crisis threatened to disrupt the pattern of trade and investment flows that had evolved since the end of World War II, central bankers faced the challenge of maintaining public confidence in the commercial banks that were at the heart of the international payments system. Although the central bankers agreed that a run on one international bank could lead to a global catastrophe requiring massive government interv…
Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy
Based on a new data set of democratizations occurring between 1960 and 2004, this paper explores the reasons for reversals in young democracies. Adverse initial conditions including poverty, inequality, and ethnic fragmentation are associated with the failure of democracy, but the relationship is not deterministic. Likewise, numerous young democracies have survived in spite of disastrous economic performance. Political institutions play a key rol…
Winners and Losers in the Global Economy
During the 1980s, economists began to observe a trend of rising income inequality in the advanced industrial economies. At the same time, the data revealed that these economies were becoming increasingly exposed to imports of manufactured goods from developing countries. The question that follows is whether these outcomes are causally related, as economic theory suggests is possible.The literature under review represents the current thinking on t…
Unipolar Politics
1. Realism and International Relations After the Cold War, by Michael Mastanduno and Ethan B. Kapstein2. Realism and the Present Great Power System: Growth and Positional Conflict Over Scarce Resources, by Randall L. Schweller3. The Political Economy of Realism, by Jonathan Kirshner4. Realism Structural Liberalism, and the Western Order, by Daniel Deudney and G. John Ikenberr5. Preserving the Unipolar Moment: Realist Theories and U.S. Grand Strat…
Governing the Global Economy
Workers and the World Economy
The global economy is leaving millions of disaffected workers in its train. Inequality, unemployment, and endemic poverty have be come its handmaidens. Rapid technological change and heightening international competition are fraying job markets of major in dustrialized countries. At same time systemic pressures are cur tailing every government s ability to respond with new spending. Just when working people most need nation-state as a buffer from…
Is realism dead? The domestic sources of international politics
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Inequality, Growth, and Democracy
The analysis of the relationship between inequality and economic growth in distinct politi-coeconomic environments has been one of the central preoccupations of the extensive theoretical and empirical work on growth in the last decade. The authors argue that the empirical evidence available to date strongly indicates the relevance of this work for understanding the elusive causal connection between economic development and democracy. The state of…
Retrospectives
This essay examines the strong influence of the Social Gospel movement on the founding of the American Economic Association. Richard T. Ely, the driving force behind the Association's founding, was also the most popular figure in the Social Gospel movement. The essay discusses Ely's influence in the statement of principles that shaped the early AEA and how the founders conceived their original mission as a scientific enterprise to better the live…
The Corporate Ethics Crusade
Are multinational enterprises getting religion? So it seems. Around the world, corporate codes of conduct on human rights, labor standards, and environmental performance are proliferating. These codes reflect the growing pressure being placed on firms by nongovernmental organizations (ngos), activist shareholders, and the portfolio managers of socially responsible investment funds. A veritable corporate ethics crusade has been launched, and it ha…
The Baby Trade
The international adoption trade is booming, as more families in the West adopt more babies from developing countries. But it has spawned a sordid black market as well, in which children are bought or abducted and sold. The best way to stop the trafficking is not to ban adoptions from countries that tolerate corrupt rings, but to strengthen the underdeveloped multilateral legal regime that regulates adoptions around the planet
Territoriality and Who Is “US
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Fairness Considerations in World Politics
Journal Article Fairness Considerations in World Politics: Lessons from International Trade Negotiations Get access Ethan B. Kapstein Ethan B. Kapstein ETHAN B. KAPSTEIN is Paul Dubrule Professor of Sustainable Development at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France) and Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development (Washington DC). His latest book is Economic Justice in an Unfair World: Toward a Level Playing Field. Search for other works by this au…
Can Labor Standards Improve Under Globalization
Social Movements and Market Transformations
When AIDS activists launched their campaign for developing world access to antiretroviral therapy in the late 1990s, this treatment cost on average $10,000 per patient per year. More than a decade later, drug prices for “first line” therapies hovered around $100 per patient per year, and nearly 13 million people in low- and middle-income countries were receiving these life-extending medications. By contrast, climate activists during the same time…
The New Global Slave Trade
WHEN MOST people think about slaveryif they think about it at all-they probably assume that it was eliminated during the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth. Slavery and the global slave trade continue to thrive to this day; in fact, it is likely that more people are being trafficked across borders against their will now than at any point in the past. This human stain is not just a minor blot on the rich tapestry of inte…
Models of International Economic Justice
Articulating and examining the likely consequences of different theoretical and policy approaches to economic justice serves to highlight potential trade-offs and conflicts among them, and helps us to think more carefully about these trade-offs and what their consequences might be. Some of us, for example, might support a liberal free trade regime because we believe it promotes greater income equality among countries . But we might also reasonabl…
Distributive Justice and International Trade
Public officials frequently assert that nations shape their own economic destiny. This statement implies that the international economy presents a level playing field for all participants. If the rules of globalization were somehow written in favor of certain countries, however, that would not be true, and the legitimacy of the economic system would be cast in doubt. This essay examines the structure of the international trade regime. Following J…
International Collaboration in Armaments Production
Why do states collaborate in the production of advanced weaponry? Under what conditions do such collaborative arrangements succeed? These are questions of both theoretical importance and policy relevance. From a theoretical perspective, the issue of interstate collaboration is among the most prominent concerns of research in international political economy. 1 In the policy realm, the costs and benefits associated with armaments collaboration have…
The Insecure Alliance
Responding to Globalization
The article addresses some of the major themes influencing the development and reform of social policy in emerging market economies. It is argued in the first section that growing concern with social policy is largely associated with the increasing openness of these economies – globalization – and the new systemic risks that domestic economies now face. We look at the broad reform trends that seem to be shaping the social policy agenda around the…
Shockproof
The Political Economy of National Security
Who's Arming Asia
The United States’ dominance in arms exports to Asia, a source of regional influence, is under threat
Land and Rebellion
A study of land reform illuminates the paradox of economic instruments in counter-insurgency. Where redistributive demands are at the core of a rebellion, foreign powerswill find it difficult to respond effectively
Tell It Good-Bye, Kiddo
Steam Whaling in the Western Arctic
A Golden Thread
The Solar Cooker
World War II severely depleted the natural resources of the United States. Enormous quantities of iron, copper, lead, zinc, aluminum, and petroleum had been devoured by the nation's industries.' By the early 1950s, several studies were calling for federal policies to regulate resource exploitation.2 Concerning oil, a 1947 study proposed we rely on imports as much as possible in order to maintain our domestic resources.3 But this was not feasible.…
Thomas Welcome Roys
Cold War Scholarship
The Insecure Alliance
The Brazilian Defense Industry and the International System
This article examines the evolution of the Brazilian defense industry within the context of the international system. Few, if any, developing countries have contributed more to conventional arms proliferation in recent years than Brazil. In less than a generation, Brazil went from being a traditional arms importer, dependent on the United States and Western Europe, to one of the world's top ten exporters with 1987 sales valued around $1 billion. …
Three-Way Street
International Collaboration in Armaments Production
Why do states collaborate in the production of advanced weaponry? Under what conditions do such collaborative arrangements succeed? These are questions of both theoretical importance and policy relevance. From a theoretical perspective, the issue of interstate collaboration is among the most prominent concerns of research in international political economy. 1 In the policy realm, the costs and benefits associated with armaments collaboration have…
The Prize
Journal Article The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power. By Daniel Yergin. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. 877 + xxxii pp. $24.95.) Get access The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power. By Yergin Daniel. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. 877 + xxxii pp. $24.95.) Ethan B. Kapstein Ethan B. Kapstein Brandeis University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vol…
The Insecure Alliance
Journal Article The Insecure Alliance: Energy Crises and Western Politics since 1944. By Ethan B. Kapstein. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xvi + 257 pp. $38.00, ISBN 0-19-505851-8.) Get access John G. Clark John G. Clark University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 722–723, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080169 Published: 0…
The Political Economy of National Security
Between power and purpose
In the early 1980s, when the debt crisis threatened to disrupt the pattern of trade and investment flows that had evolved since the end of World War II, central bankers faced the challenge of maintaining public confidence in the commercial banks that were at the heart of the international payments system. Although the central bankers agreed that a run on one international bank could lead to a global catastrophe requiring massive government interv…
Territoriality and Who Is “US
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Governing Global Finance
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEthan B. KapsteinEthan B. Kapstein is codirector of the Economics and National Security Program at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. A former international banker, he has written widely in the field of international political economy
Downsizing Defense
Governing the Global Economy
Is realism dead? The domestic sources of international politics
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Political Economy
Shockproof
Workers and the World Economy
The global economy is leaving millions of disaffected workers in its train. Inequality, unemployment, and endemic poverty have be come its handmaidens. Rapid technological change and heightening international competition are fraying job markets of major in dustrialized countries. At same time systemic pressures are cur tailing every government s ability to respond with new spending. Just when working people most need nation-state as a buffer from…
Les travailleurs dans l'économie mondiale
Global Rules for Global Finance
Essay| November 01 1998 Global Rules for Global Finance Ethan B. Kapstein Ethan B. Kapstein Ethan B. Kapstein is Stassen Professor of International Peace at the University of Minnesota. A former international banker and official at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, he is the author of Governing the Global Economy: International Finance and the State (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996). Search for other works by th…
Distributive Justice and International Trade
Public officials frequently assert that nations shape their own economic destiny. This statement implies that the international economy presents a level playing field for all participants. If the rules of globalization were somehow written in favor of certain countries, however, that would not be true, and the legitimacy of the economic system would be cast in doubt. This essay examines the structure of the international trade regime. Following J…
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