In a new initiative to support and promote discussion of current research on international and comparative issues, this year BCICS is launching a Working Paper Series. The papers will be written by Center affiliates or presented at BCICS Conferences and Working Groups. They will be published on the BCICS website and in printed form. BCICS Associate Director, Brian Hanson said, “There is so much rich and important research on international and comparative topics being done on campus. The Working Paper series is
intended to create a forum in which these ideas can be captured and made accessible to interested scholarly and policy making communities on campus and in the wider world. We intend for the Working Paper Series to reflect the broad and interdisciplinary nature of international and comparative studies at Northwestern, which reaches across many disciplines and schools here on campus.” BCICS invites submissions to the series by faculty affiliates, graduate student affiliates, visiting scholars, and associates of the Center. Please direct manuscripts to Brian Hanson (bhanson@northwestern.edu).

Working Papers

Academic Year 2006-07

• No. 1/06
  Karen J. Alter, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Northwestern University
  David Steinberg, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science Department, Northwestern University
  
  "The Theory and Reality of the European Coal and Steel Community"
  

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• No. 2/06
  Claire Metelits, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science Department, Northwestern University
  
  "Short-term Behavior Effects of Rebel Groups in Weak States: The Setting and the Model"
  

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• No. 3/06
  The Politics of International Regime Complexity Symposium , Northwestern University

  
  
  

  Conference Papers:
  

  • Karen J. Alter, Northwestern University and Sophie Meunier, Princeton University: The Politics of International Regime Complexity

  • Alexander Betts, University of Oxford: Institutional Proliferation and the Global Refugee Regime

  • Christina Davis, Princeton University: Overlapping Institutions in Trade Policy

  • Daniel W. Drezner, Tufts University: The Power and Peril of International Regime Complexity

  • Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Princeton University: The Power Politics of Regime Complexity: Human Rights Trade Conditionality in Europe

  • Laurence R. Helfer, Vanderbilt University: Navigating Institutional Density in the Intellectual Property Regime Complex

  • Stephanie C. Hofmann, Cornell University: Overlapping Institutions in the Realm of Security: The Case of NATO and ESDP

  • Judith Kelley, Duke University: The Politics of Overlaps of International Election Monitors

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• No. 4/06
  Karen J. Alter, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Northwestern University
  
  "Delegating to International Courts: Self-binding vs. Other-binding Delegation"
  

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