Richard Cupitt

Membership in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) has grown rapidly in the past decade. If continued, this rate of growth threatens to condemn the NSG to years of stalemate and stagnation as it includes states with significantly divergent interests. In contrast, cooperation between NSG members and nonmember states could increase substantially without...

Members of the Co-ordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM) agreed to disband this as of March 1994. Despite the demise of COCOM, member states agreed to continue applying their existing export control policies and, in December 1995, replaced COCOM with the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-...

Stemming the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) — nuclear, biological, and chemical — and the missiles to deliver them comprises a crucial element in contemporary security policies. Many observers believe the utility of export controls in this effort is diminishing. While the authors believe that controls on the transfer of military...

In this article, the authors apply standard population statistics to assess the durability of conventional international governmental organizations (IGOs) in the international system for the years 1865–1989. Following a brief discussion of IGOs and why institutions tend to persist (with examples from the literature on international relations, the U...

While scholars have devoted considerable attention to U.S. trade policy in the 1930s, particularly the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, little quantitative research focuses on the factors impinging upon elite decision makers who shaped Smoot-Hawley. We look at 11 votes on the Senate floor related to Smoot-Hawley to examine the impact of a variety o...

In this paper, we examine some competing explanations of the Pax Britannia, the long era of relative peace that marks the 19th century. We test hypotheses derived from balance of power theory and from theories of hegemonic order (including the hegemonic stability theory of Gilpin, the political long-cycle theory of Modelski, Thompson and their asso...

While many political risk assessments depict government instability as a key variable in estimating foreign business risk, evidence linking government instability and change in policies affecting international businesses is limited and mixed. Is the focus on government instability misplaced? Using a pooled cross-sectional time series design, this s...

Research on change in international regimes usually examines noncompliance with regime norms. In studies of international trade regimes, this means a focus on the imposition of trade barriers rather than liberalization. Developing a measure of compliant as well as noncompliant government intervention in trade for the Contracting Parties to the Gene...

This note presents a teaching simulation that is designed to stimulate the interest of undergraduate college students enrolled in introductory American government classes. The Articles of Confederation Simulation transforms a class into the Confederal Congress and is designed to increase the students' information retention and bargaining abilities....

Estudio de la política norteamericana de exportación militar durante las administraciones presidenciales de Harry S. Truman (período 1945-1953), Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961), George Bush (1989-1993) y Bill Clinton (1993-2000). El control de exportaciones fue fundamental para limitar las capacidades militares de la Unión Soviética durante la Guerra...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Georgia, 1985. Directed by Martin J. Hillenbrand. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 166-183).