Campus Units
Political Science, Statistics
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Submitted Manuscript
Publication Date
2016
Journal or Book Title
Journal of Peace Research
Volume
53
Issue
3
First Page
409
Last Page
423
DOI
10.1177/0022343316629605
Abstract
This article applies recent advances in network analysis to highlight a central tension faced by policymakers – balancing the benefits of engaging with the international system and the associated domestic policy costs. International trade rewards certain domestic practices, such as respect for human rights. Enforcing such practices, however, is politically costly and sometimes prohibitive to state leaders who rely on political repression to stay in power. In such cases, domestic elites often resort to an alternative strategy of securing the benefits of international trade – setting up indirect trade channels through intermediary states. These competing incentives are modeled within a single framework using a formal network game in which states form trade-links (direct or indirect) with other states, while simultaneously choosing their optimal level of domestic human rights protections. The model suggests that there may be an inverse relationship between a state’s embeddedness within a network of indirect trade and respect for human rights: indirect trade channels serve as loopholes that allow domestically troubled states to enjoy the benefits of trade without pressure for domestic improvement. The predictions are supported by the results of the empirical analyses of the international trade and repression data (1987–2000), conducted using a coevolutionary actor-oriented longitudinal-network model – a statistical estimator that closely mimics the theoretical model.
Copyright Owner
Olga Chyzh
Copyright Date
2016
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Chyzh, Olga, "Dangerous liaisons An endogenous model of international trade and human rights" (2016). Political Science Publications. 34.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/pols_pubs/34
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Comments
This is a manuscript of an article from Journal of Peace Research 53 (2016): 409, doi:10.1177/0022343316629605. Posted with permission.