Why Do Nations Join Human Rights Treaties? (examines why nations subscribe to international human rights treaties utilizing cross national data analysis and uses findings to assess a political theory of international law)

Do Environmental Treaties Make a Difference? (tests a theory of international law’s influence on state practices by examining the impact of multilateral environmental treaties on states’ environmental practices) (will be prepared for circulation in Fall 2004)

East Asia and Human Rights, in LEGALIZATION AND POLITICS IN EAST ASIA (Saadia M. Pekkanen ed., forthcoming 2005) (examines the role of international law in shaping human rights practices in East Asia) (will be prepared for circulation in 2005)