Emilie M. Hafner-Burton

Professor of Politics and International Affairs

School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0519
La Jolla, CA 92093-0519
ehafner@ucsd.edu
Tel: (858) 534-2660
Fax: (858) 534-3939
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Hafner-Burton has joined the Princeton faculty from Oxford University, where she was Postdoctoral Research Prize Fellow, Nuffield College, and Senior Associate, Global Economic Governance Programme. She is also an Associated Fellow of the Stanford University Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. She writes and teaches on international organization, international political economy, the global governance of gender, social network analysis, design and selection of international regimes, international human rights law and policy, war and economic sanctions, non-proliferation policy, and quantitative and qualitative research design. Her dissertation, Globalizing Human Rights? How Preferential Trade Agreements Shape Government Repression, 1972-2000, won the American Political Science Association Helen Dwight Reid Award for Best Dissertation in International Relations, Law and Politics for 2004-2005, as well as the Best Dissertation in Human Rights Prize for 2003-2004. Her articles are published or forthcoming in International Organization, American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Feminist Legal Studies, European Journal of International Relations, Journal of European Public Policy, and Journal of Peace Research. PhD. Wisconsin.

Publications

“Forced to Be Good: Why Trade Agreements Boost Human Rights.” Cornell University Press, 2009.

“Seeing Double: Human Rights Impact Through Qualitative and Quantitative Eyes?” Co-authored with James Ron. World Politics, 2009, 61(2).

“Network Analysis For International Relations.” Co-authored with Miles Kahler and Alexander H. Montgomery. International Organization, Spring 2009, 63, pp. 559-92.

“Sticks and Stones: Naming and Shaming the Human Rights Enforcement Problem" International Organization, October 2008, 62, pp 689-716.

“The Power Politics of Regime Complexity: Human Rights Conditionality in Europe.” Perspectives on Politics, March 2009, 7(1), pp. 33-38.

“Mainstreaming Gender in the European Union: Getting the Incentives Right.” Co-authored with Mark A. Pollack. Comparative European Politics, April 2009, 7, pp. 114-138.

“Globalization and the Power Politics of International Economic Networks.” Co-authored with Alexander H. Montgomery, in Networked Politics: Agency, Power, and Government. Miles Kahler, ed., Cornell University Press 2009.

“International Organizations Count: What Statistics Tell Us About IOs.” Co-authored with Jana von Stein and Erik Gartzke, Journal of Conflict Resolution, April 2008, 52(2), pp. 175-188.

“Power or Plenty: Do International Trade Organizations Shape Economic Sanctions?” Co-authored with Alexander H. Montgomery. Journal of Conflict Resolution, April 2008, 52(2), pp. 213-242.

“The Hegemon’s Purse: No Economic Peace Between Democracies.” Co-authored with Alexander H. Montgomery. Journal of Peace Research, 2008, 45(1), pp. 111-120.

“International Human Rights Law and the Politics of Legitimacy: Repressive States and Human Rights Treaties.” Co-authored with Kiyoteru Tsutsui and John Meyer. International Sociology, 2008, 23(1), pp. 115-141.

“Preventing Human Rights Abuse.” Co-authored with James Ron. Journal of Peace Research, Hafner-Burton and Ron, eds., 2007, 44(4), pp. 379-383.

“Justice Lost! The Failure of International Human Rights Law to Matter Where Needed Most.” Co-authored with Kiyoteru Tsutsui. Journal of Peace Research, 2007, 44(4), pp. 407-425.

“Power Positions: International Organizations, Social Networks, and Conflict.” Co-authored with Alexander Montgomery. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2006, 50(1), pp. 3-27.

“Trading Human Rights: How Preferential Trade Agreements Influence Government Repression.”  International Organization, 2005, 59(3), pp. 593-629.

“Human Rights Practices in a Globalizing World: The Paradox of Empty Promises.” Co-authored with Kiyo Tsutsui. American Journal of Sociology, 2005, 110(5), pp. 1373-1411.

“Right or Robust? The Sensitive Nature of Political Repression in an era of Globalization.” Journal of Peace Research, 2005, 42(6), pp.679-698.

“Gender in Global Governance: Mainstreaming Gender in Four International Organizations.” Co-authored with Mark A. Pollack. Feminist Legal Studies, 2003,10(3), pp. 285-298.

“Mainstreaming Gender in Global Governance.” Co-authored with Mark A. Pollack. European Journal of International Relations, September 2002, 8(3), pp. 339-373.

"Mainstreaming Gender in European Union Policymaking.” Co-authored with Mark A. Pollack. Journal of European Public Policy, special issue on "Women, Power and Public Policy," September 2000, 7(1), pp. 432-456.