| Globalization, Institutions and Economic Security (GIES) Workshop
Michael Tomz
"The Credibility of International Commitments"
Friday, February 1, 2008
3:30 p.m.
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201
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Michael Tomz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University, where he is also a Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Center for International Development and an affiliate of the Social Science History Institute and the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences. His research interests range across the fields of international relations, political economy, public opinion, and methodology.
Tomz is author of Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt across Three Centuries (Princeton University Press, 2007), and Modern Political Economy and Latin America: Theory and Policy, edited with Jeffry Frieden and Manuel Pastor (Westview Press, 2000). He has also published numerous articles in journals such as International Organization, American Journal of Political Science, and American Political Science Review.
In this lecture, Tomz will present material from "The Credibility of International Commitments," a multi-year project supported by an NSF CAREER grant in which he examines what makes threats and promises believable to international audiences. Tomz focuses on two strategies hypothesized to enhance the credibility of commitments: announcing commitments to domestic/foreign audiences (the "publicity" mechanism) and embedding commitments in treaties (the "legalization" mechanism).
Tomz earned a B.S. in International Relations from Georgetown University in 1992, an M.Phil. in Politics as a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 2001.
Photo by John Sheretz, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
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Michael Tomz
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Stanford University
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