The UBC Departm
ent of Political Science's Distinguished Speaker Series
and the Master
of Public Policy and Global Affairs
at the UBC Institute for Asian Re
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present a talk by
Prof
. Tana Johnson
Duke University
"A Revolution in Global North-South Politics? Evidence from Trade-Enviro nment Negotiations"
Friday\,
April 8
12:15 - 1:45pm
C.K. Choi Building (Room #120)
Lunch available at 11:30am
Ab stract: With the rise of China\, India\, Brazil\, and other states from the global South\, many observers claim that dynamics between the ind ustrialized North and developing South are undergoing a major shift. But i s a revolution truly taking place? Are emerging powers truly leading the S outh and mounting challenges to the North in international politics? Or ar e they diverging from other developing countries and now acting more like i ndustrialized ones? This talk presents the results of a study that probes North-South politics by examining the intersection of two policy areas in w hich developing and industrialized states have traditionally disagreed: tra de liberalization and environmental protection. We code all statements mad e by participants in the World Trade Organization’s Committee on Trade and Environment between 1995 and 2011. With statistical analyses of over 5\,00 0 observations over 16 years\, we consider how well a state’s development l evel predicts its policy positions\, or its bandwagoning with other countri es. The findings point to surprising constancy\, rather than revolution. Traditional industrialized countries are still dominant in international ne gotiations — meanwhile\, despite their growing wealth\, emerging powers con tinue to side more with the South than the North.
Bio : Tana Johnson is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Politic al Science at Duke University. Her research interests include global govern ance\, international organizations\, energy/environmental policy\, interact ions between the private and public sectors\, and U.S. foreign policy. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in International Organization \, Journal of Politics\, Review of International Organizations\, and Oxford Handbook of the American Presidency. Johnson's boo k Organizational Progeny: Why Governments are Losing Control over the P roliferating Structures of Global Governance (2014\, Oxford University Press) shows that in a variety of policy areas\, global governance structu res are getting harder for national governments to control -- not only beca use the quantity and staffing of international organizations has mushroomed \, but also because the people working in these organizations try to insula te any new organizations against governments' interference. Organizati onal Progeny is the recipient of the International Studies Association 's 2015 Chadwick F. Alger Prize for best book on international organization and multilateralism. Johnson has received research fellowships from the Ni ehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University\, and from the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Vanderbilt Uni versity.
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