WCFIA Directory
Simmons, Beth A.- Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate
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Cambridge, MA 02138 - Web site: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ebsimmons/
Research Interests
- International relations; international political economy; international law; international human rights law compliance.
Publications
Published Papers
- International Law and State Behavior: Commitment and Compliance in International Monetary Affairs
- Rulers of the Game: Central Bank Independence During the Interwar Years
- The Globalization of Liberalization: Policy Diffusion in the International Political Economy
- Why Commit? Explaining State Acceptance of International Human Rights Obligations
- Trade and Territorial Conflict: International Borders as Institutions
- The Legalization of International Monetary Affairs
- Money and the Law: Why Comply with the Public International Law of Money?
- The International Politics of Harmonization: the Case of Capital Market Regulation
- Why Innovate? Founding the Bank for International Settlements, 1929-1930
- Capacity, Commitment, and Compliance: International Law and the Settlement of Territorial Disputes
- Rules over Real Estate: Trade, Territorial Conflict, and International Borders as Institutions
- To Settle or Empanel? An Empirical Analysis of Litigation and Settlement at the WTO
- Theories and Empirical Studies of International Institutions
- Compliance with International Agreements
- Theories of International Regimes
- International Organizations and Institutions
- Power Plays and Capacity Constraints: The Selection of Defendants in WTO Disputes
- The Globalization of Liberalization: Policy Diffusion in the International Political Economy
- On Waves, Clusters, and Diffusion: A Conceptual Framework
- The Constraining Power of International Treaties
WCFIA Working Papers
Programs
Research Activities
- Author's conference: International Human Rights: Law, Politics and Accountability
- Director's Faculty Seminar
- Fellows' Roundtable on World Affairs
- International Law and International Relations Seminar
- Talloires Conference: Democracy in Contemporary Global Politics: Global Governance, Foreign Policies, Domestic Politics
- WCFIA Fellows Program Roundtable on World Affairs
- WCFIA Fellows' Roundtable on World Events
- Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Conference in Talloires, France