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Albert Siu-Wai Yee

Visiting Professor

B.A., Yale University
M.Phil., Yale University
Ph.D., Yale University

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Recent Publications:

  • "Domestic Support Ratios in Two-Level Bargaining: The US-China WTO Negotiations." The China Review 4,2 (Fall 2004): 129-163.
  • "Cross-National Concepts in Supranational Governance: State-Society Relations and EU Policy Making." Governance 17, 4 (October 2004): 487-524.
  • "Semantic Ambiguity and Joint Deflections in the Hainan Negotiations." China: An International Journal 2, 1 (March 2004): 53-82.
  • "Governance Modes in Global and Democratic Transitions: Issue Area Variations in Thai Politics since 1973." Asian Journal of Political Science 11, 1 (June 2003): 57-92.
  • "The Integration of Realist and Cultural Analyses of Internal Wars: Interlocking Logics and the American Case." Civil Wars 5, 3 (Autumn 2002): 117-160.
  • "Thick Rationality and the Missing 'Brute Fact': The Limits of Rationalist Incorporations of Norms and Ideas." Journal of Politics 59, 4 (November 1997): 1001-39.
  • "Rejoinder." Journal of Politics 59, 4 (November 1997): 1048-50.
  • "The Causal Effects of Ideas on Policies." International Organization 50, 1 (Winter 1996): 69-108.

Conference Papers and Invited Presentations:

  • "Institutional Explanations of Chinese and American Foreign Policy: Rationalism, Domestic Politics and Socialization," to be presented at the the Association of Chinese Political Studies conference, Renmin University, Beijing, China, July 2009.
  • "Economic Development and Pathways to Peace and Conflict: Logics of Reasoning, Regime Types, and Chinese Foreign Policy," presented at the Department of Political Science, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, April 2009.
  • "Constructions of China's 'Peaceful Development': Implications for IR Theory and US Foreign Policy," presented at the Department of Government, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, April 2007.
  • "China's 'Peaceful Rise' in Theory and Practice," presented at the Hopkins-Nanking Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, January 2007.
  • "International Relations Theory and Contemporary Chinese Foreign Policy," presented at the Department of Political Science, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, November 2006.
  • "China's Peaceful Development': Grand Strategy, Insitutional Effect, or New Ideas?" presented at the Department of International Relations, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, April 2006.
  • "Effects of Globalization on Cultural Identities," presented at the Department of World History, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, November 2005.
  • "China's Foreign Policy Options within Global Trajectories," presented at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, December 2004.
  • "Negotiation Theory, Tow-Level Games, and Domestic Support Ratios in US-China Relations," presented at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, December 2004.
  • "Packaging Events and Manipulating Support Ratios in US-China Relations," presented at the International Studies Association annual meeting, Portland, OR, March 2003.
  • "Thematic Identities and Sectional Divergences," presented at the Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University for international and Area Studies, New Haven, CT, November 2002.
  • "Economic Globalization, Domestic Coalitions and Institutional State Forms," presented at the annual meeting  of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, November 2001.
  • "Global Imperatives and the Differentiation of the State across Issue Areas" presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, November 2000.
  • "State-Society Relations in Changing and Multifaceted Politics," presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Savannah, GA, Novemer 1999.
  • "The Efects of State-Society Configurations on the Policy Influences of NGOs and TNAs," presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, October 1998.
  • "The International Nexus of Neo-Liberalism," presented at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1996.
  • "State-Society Complexes and 'State' Autonomy in Political Analysis,"  presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Acapulco, Mexico, March 1995.

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Last Updated: 7/17/09