Fellowships: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
Anshu Chatterjee, Group in Asian Studies: Communication and
Development in This Era of Globalization and Redesign of Transnational Economic Arrangements The expanding scope of economic globalization requires that its progress
and impact on the affected industries and different areas of the world be
subjected to rigorous examination from social science perspectives. Ms.
Chatterjee's interest lies in communication and development in this era of
globalization and redesign of transnational economic arrangements. He is
specifically interested in the examination of the globalizing media industry in
relation to its rapid expansion into South Asia that has reshaped the regional
media industry, specifically the television industry. Technological innovations
and structural reforms have created an environment in which transnational
corporations have expanded their businesses at an unprecedented speed and ease.
This has created an environment in which national governments and organizations
must make decisions that involve global economic consequences. Multilateral
perspectives, arrangements, and institutions are important considerations as
individual governments find it increasingly difficult to reconcile the issues
of autonomy and globalization in a manner consistent with their development
goals.
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Elliot Posner, Political Science: Explaining the Great Change in the
Foreign Economic Policies of Developing Countries The dramatic change in the foreign and domestic economic policies of developing
countries remains a puzzling phenomenon of contemporary international political
economy. In no domain is this change more evident than in developing country
policies toward multilateral institutions. For most of this century, developing
countries maintained an ambivalence toward multilateral institutions based on
largely liberal principles, such as the GATT, the IMF and the World Bank, and
instead attempted to forge multilateral institutions and development strategies
based on principles of self-sufficiency, protection of infant industries and
sovereignty. Today, the governments of these countries have warmed to liberal
institutional arrangements with advanced industrial countries and have endorsed
market principles and free trade. International structural explanations of the
1970s and 1980s, both neorealist and dependency, expected separation between
advanced industrial and developing countries. Explanations that point to
international economic processes, the debt crisis, technological change and
globalization cannot fully account for the tremendous variation in policies,
the apparent ideological changes of leaders and policy makers, and the timing
of the changed policies. Thus, this project will carry out in-depth studies of
foreign economic policy-making of individual developing countries, beginning
with the important case of Mexico and focusing on changed policies toward
multilateral institutions. It will entertain alternative theoretical
traditions, including those seeking to trace the origins of ideas to hegemons,
to epistemic communities, to international environments and networks, to
socialization and learning processes, and to international and national
identity formation.
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Robert Rauchhaus, Political Science: Multilateral Institutions and
the Bolstering of the State For decades, many have argued that the state's years are numbered. State
autonomy is allegedly eroding because of growing domestic constraints,
transnational forces, and a web of multilateral institutions. While states are
undoubtedly under considerable pressure, a better understanding of multilateral
institutions might lead to a very different prognosis of the state's future.
Rather than undermining states, multilateral institutions might be better
conceived of as tools which states use to bolster themselves from domestic and
international pressures. In the international arena, Mr. Rauchhaus is
interested in exploring how multilateral institutions can help states gain
advantage against other states and transnational forces. In the domestic arena,
he is interested in how participation in multilateral institutions might alter
the domestic distribution of power in a way that increases the state's autonomy
from domestic groups.
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