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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert David Pahre

Robert David Pahre

Professor
240 Computing Applications Bldg
605 E. Springfield
Champaign, Illinois 61820
(217) 333-2851
pahre@illinois.edu


University of California, Los Angeles: Ph.D. in Political Science, December 1990

research interests:

  • The European Union
  • Transboundary cooperation in wildlife and the environment
  • Two-level games
  • Politics of international trade

Books Authored or Co-Authored (Original Editions)

  • Leading Questions: How Hegemony Affects the International Political Economy, University of Michigan Press, 1999.
  • Creative Marginality: Innovation at the Intersections of Social Sciences. Westview Press, 1990, with Mattei Dogan. Modified version for a European audience published as l'Innovation dans les Sciences Sociales: la Marginalité Creatrice, by Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1991. French version also translated into Spanish as Las Nuevas Ciencias Sociales: La Marginalidad Creadora (Editorial Grijalbo, Mexico City, 1993), and in Romanian as Noile Stiinte Sociale: Interpenetrarea disciplinelor (Editura Academiei Române, Bucharesti, 1993; Nicolae Lotreanu, trans.).
  • Politics and Trade Cooperation in the Nineteenth Century: The "Agreeable Customs" of 1815-1914, Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Books Edited or Co-Edited (Original Editions)

  • Democratic Foreign Policy Making: Problems of Divided Government and International Cooperation, editor, Palgrave, 2006.
  • International Trade and Political Institutions: Instituting Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century, co-edited with Fiona McGillivray, Iain McLean, and Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001.

Journal Articles

  • "International Cooperation as Interagency Cooperation: Examples from Wildlife and Habitat Preservation," Perspectives on Politics 7(4): 881-897, December 2009.
  • "One Case to Rule Them All: Theoretical Synthesis and the Repeal of the Corn Laws," Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Volume 27-A, pp. 279–292, 2009.
  • “Privatizing Isle Royale? The Limits of Free Market Environmentalism,” George Wright Forum 25(3): 23-39 (March 2009).
  • “The Myths of Turkish Influence in the European Union,” Journal of Common Market Studies 47(2): 357–384 (February 2009), with Burcu Uçaray-Mangıtlı.
  • "Hegemony and the International Economy," Comparative Sociology 4(3-4): 451-477, December 2005.
  • "Patently Misleading: Partial Implementation and Bargaining Leverage in Sino-American Negotiations on Intellectual Property Rights,” International Organization, 59(3): 695-730, Summer 2005, with Andrew Mertha.
  • "Formal Theory and Case-Study Methods in EU Studies," European Union Politics 6(1): 113146, January 2005.
  • "House Rules: Institutional Choice and United States Trade Negotiations," Conflict Management and Peace Sciences 21(3): 195-213, Fall 2004.
  • "Most-Favored-Nation Clauses, Domestic Politics, and Clustered Negotiations," International Organization 55(4): 861-892, Summer 2001. Reprinted in Rational Design: Explaining the Form of International Institutions, edited by Barbara Koremenos, Charles Lipson, and Duncan Snidal, Cambridge University Press.
  • "Divided Government and International Cooperation in Austria-Hungary, Sweden-Norway, and the European Union," European Union Politics 2(2): 131-162, Spring 2001.
  • "Reactions and Reciprocity: Tariffs and Trade Liberalization in 1815-1914," Journal of Conflict Resolution 42(4): 467-492, August 1998.
  • "Mathematical Discourse and Crossdisciplinary Communities: The Case of Political Economy," Social Epistemology 10(1): 55-73, 1996. Reprinted in Discourse Synthesis: Studies in Historical and Contemporary Social Epistemology, edited by Raymond G. McInnis, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001.