How to Reform a Rogue: Integration, Isolation, and International Conflict
The speaker reassesses the ongoing debate about the relationship between international interdependence and conflict with the goal of informing U.S. foreign policy toward proliferation, sanctions, rogue states, and other international challenges where success hinges on an accurate understanding of the effect of integration and isolation on the behavior of other states. The findings support the liberal thesis that, all else equal, increased integration into the international system reduces the propensity toward conflict, while isolation contributes to conflict-prone behavior. There are, however, distinctions between various types of integration that have important implications for U.S. foreign policy toward international adversaries.?