RONALD B. MITCHELL
(Updated: May 2009)
Education
Ph.D. HARVARD
UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE SCHOOL
OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Public Policy,
November 1992
Dissertation:
"From Paper to Practice: Improving Environmental Treaty Compliance"
Committee: Abram
Chayes (chair), William Clark, Robert Keohane
M.P.P. HARVARD
UNIVERSITY, JOHN F. KENNEDY SCHOOL
OF GOVERNMENT
Public Policy, June
1985
B.A. STANFORD UNIVERSITY
American Studies,
June 1981
Academic positions
PROFESSOR, University of Oregon
Department of
Political Science, Full Professor: 2005-present; Associate: 1999-2005;
Assistant: 1993-1999
Program in
Environmental Studies, Core Faculty, 2004-present
Teach courses on
international environmental policy, international relations theory, and international
organization (see http://www.uoregon.edu/~rmitchel/).
VISITING ASSOCIATE
PROFESSOR, Stanford
University
Center for
Environmental Science and Policy and International Policy Studies Program, July
1999-Dec 2001
Researched
international regimes and taught international environmental policy and
international relations. Course on international environmental politics
videotaped and taught in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 at ten Russian universities
through Stanford's Initiative on Distance Learning (http://idl.stanford.edu/102/).
INVITED PROFESSOR, Royal Complutense
College at Harvard University
Summer Course on
International Environmental Problems, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
Professional
service
International,
National, and State Advisory Boards and Scientific Committees
Earth System
Governance Project, International Human Dimensions Program, Associate Faculty,
2009-present
Oregon Climate
Change Research Institute, 2009-present
Invited Expert
Reviewer, United Nations Assessment of Assessments of the State of the Oceans,
2008
State of Oregon
Science/Technology Committee of the Oregon Global Warming Commission, Member,
2008-present
Institutional
Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Synthesis Conference, Organizing
Captain, 2006
State of Oregon
Governor's Advisory Group on Global Warming, Member, 2004, Report: 
National Research
Council, Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Member, 2000-2004
Integrated Marine
Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem (IMBER - project of Scientific Committee on Ocean
Research and International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme), contributing author
to Science Plan and Implementation Strategy, 2003
CLimate Impacts on
Oceanic TOp Predators (CLIOTOP) Project, Chair of Working Group 5 on
Socio-Economic Aspects, 2003-2004
DIVERSITAS, Member,
Scientific Committee for Core Project on "bioSUSTAINABILITY: Conservation
and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity," International Council for Science,
2003-2008
DIVERSITAS Task
Force Member, 2001-2003
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Associate Editor: Global Environmental Politics,
2007-Present
International Studies Review, 2008-present
Climate Law Compliance Yearbook,
2008-present
Internationality: A Journal of Critical Global Studies, 2008-present
International Organization, 2002-2007, 2009-present
Global Environmental Politics, 1999-2007
Journal of Environment and Development, 1995-present
PROFESSIONAL
ASSOCIATION SERVICE
Nominations
Committee, Qualitative Methods Section, American Political Science Association,
2003-2005
Nominations
Committee, Environmental Studies Section, International Studies Association,
2002-2004
Sprout Award
Committee, Environmental Studies Section, International Studies Association,
2001-2003
Conference Chair
(1996) and President (1997), International Studies Association - West
Executive
Committee, Environmental Studies Section, International Studies Association,
1995-1997
Grants,
fellowships, and Honors
Commencement
Speaker. Minds Move Mountains: The Power of Interdisciplinary Collaboration.
University of Oregon, 16 June 2008. Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiibUBPmHBI,
minute 48 through 61. Text in PDF format:
Faculty Fund for
Excellence, January 2008 - December 2012
National Science
Foundation, "Fostering Cross-Disciplinary Relationships and Early-Career
Development to Advance Interdisciplinary Research on Climate Change and
Impacts," January 2005 - December 2008 (NSF Award No. EAR-0435719)
National Science
Foundation, "Analysis of the effects of environmental treaties,"
September 2003 - August 2007 (NSF Award No. SES-0318374)
International Studies
Association Workshop Grant, 2003 (with John Duffield, Georgia State
University)
American
Philosophical Society, Sabbatical Fellowship, 2002-2003
Faculty Summer
Research Award, Graduate School, University of Oregon, 1994, 1997, 2002, 2008
Richard A. Bray
Faculty Fellow, University
of Oregon, 1999
Junior
Professorship Development Award, College
of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon, 1995, 1996
International
Affairs Advisory Council Award, University
of Oregon, 1996
Research Grant, College of Arts
and Sciences, University
of Oregon, 1996
Dwight D.
Eisenhower/Thomas A. Pappas Graduate Fellowship, 1991-1992
Rockefeller
Brothers Fund Research Grant, 1991-1992
Harvard MacArthur
Scholarship in International Security, 1990-1991, 1991-1992
Books
International
Politics and the Environment 
Sage Publications,
forthcoming (November 2009)
Intentional Oil
Pollution at Sea: Environmental Policy and Treaty Compliance
MIT Press, 1994.
Winner of the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award, International Studies
Association, 1995, for best book on international environmental issues
Edited books
International
Environmental Politics (4 volume set of previously published articles by
various authors)
Ronald B. Mitchell,
editor. Sage Publications, 2008
Global
Environmental Assessments: Information and Influence
Ronald B. Mitchell,
William C. Clark, David W. Cash, and Nancy M. Dickson, editors. MIT Press, 2006
Refereed journal
articles
"Problem
Structure, Institutional Design, and the Relative Effectiveness of
International Environmental Agreements"
Global
Environmental Politics
6:3 (August 2006), 72-89.
"International
Environmental Agreements: A Survey of Their Features, Formation, and
Effects"
Annual Review of
Environment and Resources
28 (November 2003), 429-461.
"Knowledge
Systems for Sustainable Development"
David W. Cash,
William C. Clark, Frank Alcock, Nancy M. Dickson, Noelle Eckley, David H.
Guston, Jill Jäger, and Ronald B. Mitchell. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences 100:14 (8 July 2003), 8086-8091.
"A
Quantitative Approach to Evaluating International Environmental Regimes"
Global
Environmental Politics
2:4 (November 2002), 58-83.
"Situation
Structure and Institutional Design: Reciprocity, Coercion, and Exchange"
Ronald B. Mitchell
and Patricia M. Keilbach. International Organization 55:4 (Autumn 2001),
891-917.
Republished in:
The
Rational Design of International Institutions. Editors: Barbara Koremenos, Charles Lipson, and Duncan
Snidal. Cambridge
University Press, 2004,
131-157.
"Implementing
the Climate Change Regime's Clean Development Mechanism"
Ronald B. Mitchell
and Edward A. Parson. Journal of Environment and Development 10:2 (June
2001), 125-146.
"Encouraging
Compliance without Real Power: Sport Associations Regulating Teams"
Ronald B. Mitchell,
Todd Crosset, and Carol A. Barr. Journal of Sport Management 13:3 (July
1999), 216-236.
"Discourse and
Sovereignty: Interests, Science, and Morality in the Regulation of
Whaling"
Global
Governance
4:3 (July-September 1998), 275-293.
"Sources of
Transparency: Information Systems in International Regimes"
International
Studies Quarterly
42:1 (March 1998), 109-130.
Republished in:
Power
and Conflict in the Age of Transparency. Editors: Bernard I. Finel and Kristin M. Lord. Palgrave
Publishers, 2000, 181-219.
"Empirical
Research on International Environmental Policy: Designing Qualitative Case
Studies"
Ronald B. Mitchell
and Thomas Bernauer. Journal of Environment and Development 7:1 (March
1998), 4-31.
"International
Control of Nuclear Proliferation: Beyond Carrots and Sticks"
The
Nonproliferation Review 5:1
(Fall 1997), 40-52.
"Heterogeneities
at Two Levels: States, Non-State Actors, and Intentional Oil Pollution"
Journal of
Theoretical Politics
6:4 (October 1994), 625-653.
Republished in:
Local Commons and Global Interdependence. Editors: Robert O. Keohane
and Elinor Ostrom. Sage Publications, 1995, 223-251.
"Regime Design
Matters: Intentional Oil Pollution and Treaty Compliance"
International
Organization
48:3 (Summer 1994), 425-458.
Republished in:
The
International Political Economy and International Institutions (Volume II). Editor: Oran R. Young. Edward
Elgar Publishing, Ltd., 1997, 115-148.
Theory
and Structure in International Political Economy: An International Organization
Reader.
Editors: Charles Lipson and Benjamin J. Cohen, MIT Press, 1999, 207-240.
International
Institutions: An International Organization Reader. Editors: Lisa L. Martin and
Beth A. Simmons, MIT Press, 2001, 103-136.
Environment
in the New Global Economy.
Editor: Peter M. Haas. Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., 2003, Volume II, 99-132.
International
Organization and Global Governance: A Reader. 2nd. Edition. Editors: Friedrich Kratochwil and
Edward D. Mansfield. Pearson Longman, 2006, 141-161.
International
Law and International Relations. Editors: Beth A. Simmons and Richard H. Steinberg.
Cambridge University Press, 2006, 653-683.
Book chapters
"The Influence
of International Institutions: Institutional Design, Compliance, Effectiveness,
and Endogeneity"
In Power,
Interdependence and Non-State Actors in World Politics. Editors: Helen V.
Milner and Andrew Moravcsik. Princeton University Press, 2009, 66-83.
"Evaluating
the Performance of Environmental Institutions: What to Evaluate and How to
Evaluate It?"
In Institutions
and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and Research
Frontiers. Editors: Oran R. Young, Leslie A. King, and Heike Schroeder. MIT
Press, 2008, 79-114.
"Compliance
Theory: Compliance, Effectiveness, and Behavior Change in International
Environmental Law"
In Oxford Handbook
of International Environmental Law. Editors: Jutta Brunee, Daniel Bodansky,
and Ellen Hey. Oxford
University Press, 2007,
893-921.
"Evaluating
the Influence of Global Environmental Assessments"
William C. Clark,
Ronald B. Mitchell, and David W. Cash. In Global Environmental Assessments:
Information and Influence. Editors: Ronald B. Mitchell, William C. Clark,
David W. Cash, and Nancy M. Dickson. MIT Press, 2006, 1-28.
"Information
and Influence"
Ronald B. Mitchell,
William C. Clark, and David W. Cash. In Global Environmental Assessments:
Information and Influence. Editors: Ronald B. Mitchell, William C. Clark,
David W. Cash, and Nancy M. Dickson. MIT Press, 2006, 307-338.
"Flexibility,
Compliance and Norm Development in the Climate Regime"
In Implementing
the Climate Regime: International Compliance. Editors: Olav Schram Stokke,
Jon Hovi, and Geir Ulfstein. Earthscan Press, 2005, 65-83.
"Institutions,
Science, and Technology in the Transition to Sustainability"
Ronald B. Mitchell
and Patricia Romero Lankao. In Earth System Analysis for Sustainability,
Dahlem Workshop Report 91. Editors: Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Paul J.
Crutzen, William C. Clark, and Martin Claussen. MIT Press, 2004, 387-407.
"A
Quantitative Approach to Evaluating International Environmental Regimes"
In Regime
Consequences: Methodological Challenges and Research Strategies. Editors:
Arild Underdal and Oran
Young. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, 121-149.
Ronald
B. Mitchell, William C. Clark, David W. Cash, and Frank Alcock. In Forest
Futures: Science, Politics and Policy for the Next Century. Editors: Karen
Arabas and Joe Bowersox. Rowman and Littlefield, 2004, 95-111.
"Beyond
Story-Telling: Designing Case
Study Research in International Environmental Policy"
Ronald B. Mitchell
and Thomas Bernauer. In Models,
Numbers, and Cases: Methods for Studying International Relations. Editors:
Detlef Sprinz and Yael Wolinsky-Nahmias. University of Michigan
Press, 2004, 81-106.
"Of Course
International Institutions Matter: But When and How?"
In How
institutions change: perspectives on social learning in global and local
environmental contexts. Editors: Heiko Breit, Anita Engels, Timothy Moss,
and Markus Troja. Leske+Budrich, 2003, 35-52.
"International
Environment"
In Handbook of
International Relations. Editors: Thomas Risse, Beth Simmons, and Walter
Carlsnaes. Sage Publications, 2002, 500-516.
"Institutional
Aspects of Implementation, Compliance, and Effectiveness"
In International
Relations and Global Climate Change. Editor: Urs Luterbacher and Detlef
Sprinz. MIT Press, 2001, 221-244.
"International
Vessel-Source Oil Pollution"
Ronald B. Mitchell,
Moira McConnell, Alexei Roginko, and Ann Barrett. In The Effectiveness of
International Environmental Regimes: Causal Connections and Behavioral
Mechanisms. Editor: Oran
Young. MIT Press, 1999, 33-90.
"International
Environmental Common Pool Resources: More Common than Domestic but More
Difficult to Manage"
In Anarchy and
the Environment: The International Relations of Common Pool Resources.
Editors: J. Samuel Barkin and George E. Shambaugh. SUNY Press, 1999, 26-50.
"Forms of
Discourse, Norms of Sovereignty: Interests, Science, and Morality in the
Regulation of Whaling"
In The Greening
of Sovereignty in World Politics. Editor: Karen Litfin. MIT Press, 1998,
141-171.
"Managing
Compliance: A Comparative Perspective"
Abram Chayes,
Antonia Handler Chayes, and Ronald B. Mitchell. In Engaging Countries:
Strengthening Compliance with International Environmental Accords. Editors:
Edith Brown Weiss and Harold Jacobson. MIT Press, 1998, 39-62.
"Institutional
Frameworks for Political Action"
Timothy O'Riordan,
Chester L. Cooper, Andrew Jordan, Steve Rayner, Kenneth R. Richards, Paul
Runci, and Shira Yoffe; with Daniel Bodansky, Urs Luterbacher, Ronald B.
Mitchell, Kal Raustiala, Ian Rowlands, Paul Samson, and Detlef Sprinz as contributors.
In Human Choice and Climate Change. Editor: Steve Rayner and Elizabeth
L. Malone. Battelle Press, 1998, 345-439.
"Compliance
Theory: An Overview"
In Improving
Compliance with International Environmental Law. Editors: James Cameron,
Jacob Werksman, and Peter Roderick. Earthscan, 1996, 3-28.
Republished in:
Making
Law Work: Environmental Compliance & Sustainable Development (Volume I). Editors: Durwood
Zaelke, Donald Kaniaru & Eva Kružíková. Cameron May, 2005, ch. 4.
Excerpted in:
International
Environmental Law and Policy. Editors: David Hunter, James Salzman, and Durwood Zaelke. Foundation
Press, 1998, ch. 9.
"Improving
Compliance with the Climate Change Treaty"
Ronald B. Mitchell
and Abram Chayes. In Shaping National Responses to Climate Change: A
Post-Rio Policy Guide. Editor: Henry Lee. Island Press, 1995, 115-145.
"Active
Compliance Management in Environmental Treaties"
Antonia Handler
Chayes, Abram Chayes, and Ronald B. Mitchell. In Sustainable Development and
International Law. Editor: Winfried Lang. Graham and Trotman Ltd., 1995,
75-89.
"Comment on
the Paper by Patrick Szell"
In Sustainable
Development and International Law. Editor: Winfried Lang. Graham and Trotman
Ltd., 1995, 111-113.
"Intentional
Oil Pollution of the Oceans"
In Institutions
for the Earth: Sources of Effective International Environmental Protection.
Editors: Peter Haas, Robert Keohane, and Marc Levy. MIT Press, 1993, 183-248.
Book reviews
Elizabeth DeSombre,
Flagging Standards: Globalization and Environmental, Safety, and Labor
Regulations at Sea
Review of Policy Research, 26:1–2 (2009), 225-226.
Ken Conca, Governing
Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building
Global
Environmental Politics,
7:1 (February 2007), 153-155.
Corey Lofdahl, Environmental
Impacts of Globalization and Trade: A Systems Study
Politics and the
Life Sciences,
22:2 (September 2003), 54-55.
Oran Young, The
Institutional Dimensions of Environmental Change: Fit, Interplay, and Scale
International
Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 3:2 (2003), 191-194.
The Social Learning
Group, Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks, Volume 1: A Functional
Analysis of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and Acid Rain
and
The Social Learning
Group, Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks, Volume 2: A
Comparative History of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and
Acid Rain
Global
Environmental Politics
2:2 (May 2002), 131-133.
Matthew Paterson, Understanding
Global Environmental Politics: Domination, Accumulation, Resistance and
Elizabeth R.
DeSombre, Domestic Sources of International Environmental Policy: Industry,
Environmentalists, and U.S. Power
American
Political Science Review
95:2 (June 2001), 514-515.
Thomas Bernauer and
Dieter Ruloff, eds., The Politics of Positive Incentives in Arms Control
and
Robert Mandel, Deadly
Transfers and the Global Playground: Transnational Security Threats in a
Disorderly World
International
Studies Review
2:3 (Fall 2000), 142-146.
Karen Litfin, Ozone
Discourses: Science and Politics in Global Environmental Cooperation
The Ecologist 26:3 (May/June 1996), 78-79.
Thomas Gehring, Dynamic
International Regimes
International
Environmental Affairs
7:2 (Spring 1995), 189-191.
Government and
international Reports
"How Can We
Improve the Usefulness of Carbon Science for Decision-Making?"
Lisa Dilling,
Ronald B. Mitchell, and David Fairman (with Myanna Lahsen, Susanne Moser,
Anthony Patt, Chris Potter, Charles Rice, and Stacy VanDeveer). In: The First State
of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR): North American Carbon Budget and
Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle. A report by the U.S. Climate
Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research (King,
A.W. L. Dilling. G.P. Zimmerman, D.M. Fairman, R.A. Houghton, G.H. Marland,
A.Z. Rose, and T.J. Wilbanks, eds.) National
Ocean and Atmospheric Administration,
Climate Program Office, Silver Spring,
MD, 2007, pp. 5.1-5.16.
"Climate
Impacts on Oceanic TOp Predators (CLIOTOP): Science Plan and Implementation
Strategy "
Maury, O. and P.
Lehodey (Eds.). 2005. GLOBEC Report No.18. One of 16 main contributors to this
science plan.
"Implementing
Joint Implementation: Developing a Management and Performance System for the Kyoto Protocol's 'Clean
Development Mechanism"
Ronald B. Mitchell
and Edward A. Parson. Report submitted to the United States Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, May 1998.
Opinion -
Editorials and Profiles
"Why Bother
Going Green"
Cascade 2008 (Fall 2008).
"The Truth and
Uncertainty of Climate Change"
Ronald B. Mitchell
and Greg Bothun. Ecotone 2006:2 (Spring 2006), 8-11.
"State Can Be
Leader on Clean Car Standards"
The
Register-Guard
(Eugene, Oregon), Feb 20, 2006.
"Kulongoski
Right to Address Global Warming"
Ronald B. Mitchell
and Randy Berggren. The Register-Guard (Eugene, Oregon),
Dec 29, 2004, A-11.
Other publications
(non-refereed)
"International
Regulation of Intentional Discharges of Oil into the Ocean"
Case study included
on International Relations Interactive CD included as part of World
Politics: Trend and Transformation (9th ed.). Charles W. Kegley, Jr. and
Eugene R. Wittkopf. Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.
"International
Environmental Politics"
Curriculum module
for high school and community college use. Developed by Gregory Francis from my
Stanford University course of Winter term 2001.
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education. 2002.
"Of Course
International Institutions Matter: But When and How?"
In Proceedings
of the 2001 Berlin
Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Global
Environmental Change and the Nation State. Editors: Frank Biermann, Rainier Brohm, and Klaus Dingwerth. PIK Report No. 80.
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, December 2002, 16-25.
"Information
as Influence: How Institutions Mediate the Impact of Scientific Assessments on
Global Environmental Affairs"
William C. Clark,
Ronald B. Mitchell, David W. Cash, and Frank Alcock. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University, Faculty Research Working
Paper RWP02-044, 2002.
"Marine
Pollution Convention"
In Encyclopedia
of Global Change: Environmental Change and Human Society (Volume 2).
Editor: Andrew S. Goudie. Oxford
University Press, 2002,
57-58.
"Identifying
Undeclared Nuclear Sites: Contributions from Nontraditional Sources"
In 2nd Workshop
on Science and Modern Technology for Safeguards: Proceedings (Albuquerque, NM,
21-24 September 1998). Editors: C. Foggi and E. Petraglia. Office for
Official Publications of the European Communities, 2000, 59-72.
"Designing
Effective Social Control for Nuclear Safeguards: Matching Strategies to Context
or 'One Size Does Not Fit All'"
In Proceedings
of the 19th Annual Symposium on Safeguards and Nuclear Material Management
(Montpellier, France, May 1997). European Safeguards Research and
Development Association-ESARDA and Joint Research Centre, 1998, 57-71.
"Explaining
the Form of Assessments: Why Do We Get the Assessments We Do?"
Edward Parson,
Shardul Agrawala, Anthony Patt, Robert Keohane, Ronald B. Mitchell, Liliana
Botcheva, William Clark, Elizabeth DeSombre, James McCarthy, and Eileen Shea.
In A Critical Evaluation of Global Environmental Assessments: The Climate
Experience. Center for the Application of Research on the Environment,
1997, 49-78.
"Strategies
for International Control of Nuclear Proliferation: Beyond Carrots and
Sticks"
In Workshop on
Science and Modern Technology for Safeguards: Proceedings (Arona, Italy, 28-31
October 1996) Editors: C. Foggi, F. Genoni, W.D. Lauppe, C.S. Sonnier, and
G. Stein. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1997,
299-306.
"Compliance
with International Treaties: Lessons from Intentional Oil Pollution"
Environment 37:4 (May 1995), 10-15,
36-41.
Republished in:
International
Law (6 volume set).
Editor: Beth Simmons. Sage Publications, 2008.
"Has MARPOL
Reduced Intentional Oil Discharges?"
Proceedings of
the Marine Safety Council of the U.S. Coast Guard 51:2 (March-April 1994),
9-11.
"Compliance
Theory: A Synthesis"
Review of
European Community and International Environmental Law 2:4 (1993), 327-334.
Republished in:
Environment
in the New Global Economy.
Editor: Peter M. Haas. Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., 2003, Volume II, 441-448.
Papers presented
Ronald Mitchell and Glenn
Deane, International Studies Association Conference, San Francisco, March 2008
"Should Those Who Do
Research in International Law also Teach the Subject?"
Ronald Mitchell, Roundtable
Presentation, International Studies Association Conference, San Francisco, March 2008
"Why Compliance Never
Matters, Why Sanctions Usually Don't Matter, and Why Optimal Treaty Design is
Not an Option"
Conference on International
Law: What is Wrong with the Way We Teach and Write International Law, A Joint
Association of American Law Schools and American Society of International Law
Conference, Vancouver, Canada, June 2007
"Evaluating The
Performance of Environmental Institutions: What Should We Evaluate and How
Should We Evaluate It?"
Institutional Dimensions of
Global Environmental Change Synthesis Conference, Bali, Indonesia,
December 2006
"From Evidence to Data:
Lessons from Coding International Environmental Agreements"
Ronald B. Mitchell and Steven
B. Rothman, 2006 Shambaugh Conference: Building Synergies Institutions and
Cooperation in World Politics, University
of Iowa, Iowa City,
October 2006
"Creating Large-N
Datasets from Qualitative Information: Lessons from International Environmental
Agreements"
Ronald B. Mitchell and Steven
B. Rothman, American Political Science Association Conference, Philadelphia, September
2006
"The International
Environmental Agreements Project: Structure, Analytic Goals, and an Example
from Fisheries"
American Political Science
Association Conference, Washington,
DC, September 2005
"The Influence of
International Institutions: Institutional Design, Compliance, Effectiveness,
and Endogeneity"
Princeton University
Workshop on International Institutions, Princeton,
NJ, February 2005
"The Influence of
Regimes: Regime Design, Compliance, Effectiveness, and Endogeneity"
Pacific Northwest Political Science Conference, Portland, OR,
November 2004
"Institutional Influence: Dependent Variables,
Independent Variables, Endogeneity, and Strategies"
Compliance and International Law Workshop, Center for
International Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA,
April 2004
"Methodological Challenges in Evaluating the Effects of
Wildlife Management Regimes"
International Studies Association Conference, Montreal, Canada,
March 2004
"Separating and Aggregating Regime Effects"
Detlef Sprinz, Jon Hovi, Arild Underdal, and Ronald
Mitchell, International Studies Association Conference, Montreal, Canada,
March 2004
"International Institutions and Climate Change"
Third Annual Environmental Policy Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus,
Ohio, October 2003
"Institutions as Drivers and Responses: A Critical
Assessment of Data Needs"
Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental
Change Research Community, Montreal,
Canada, October
2003
"What Kinds of Institutions Would Be Needed to Promote
the Production and Effective Use of Science and Technology in Managing a
Transition to Sustainability?"
Ronald B. Mitchell and Patricia Romero Lankao, Dahlem Workshop
on Earth System Analysis for Sustainability, Berlin, Germany,
May 2003
"The Relative Effects of Environmental Regimes: A
Quantitative Comparison of Four Acid Rain Protocols"
International Studies Association Conference, Portland, OR,
February 2003
"Ocean Science with Influence: Making Science Salient,
Credible, and Legitimate"
Ronald B. Mitchell (presentation based on work with William
Clark, David Cash, and Frank Alcock). Invited Plenary Speaker, OCEANS: Ocean
Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems Analysis, International Open Science Conference,
Paris, France, January 2003
"Science, Scientists, and Their Influence on the Policy
Process: Lessons for the Northwest
Forest from Global
Environmental Assessments"
Ronald B. Mitchell (presentation based on work with William
Clark, David Cash, and Frank Alcock). Invited Speaker, Forest Futures
Conference, Willamette University, Salem
OR, September 2002
"Of Course International Institutions Matter: But When
and How?"
Plenary speaker, Conference on the Human Dimensions of
Global Environmental Change, Berlin, Germany,
December 2001
"Quantitative Analysis in International Environmental
Politics: Toward a Theory of Relative Effectiveness"
International Studies Association - West Conference, Davis, CA,
October 2001
"Norms As Regulative Rules"
International Studies Association Conference, Chicago, IL, March 2001;
American Political Science Association Conference, San Francisco, CA,
August 2001
"How Problems Dictate Solutions: Preliminary Findings
on How Situation Structure Influences Regime Design"
Poster - American Political Science Association Conference, Washington, DC,
September, 2000
"Assessing the Relative Effectiveness of Regimes:
Situation Structure, Implementation Strategies, and Behavior Change"
Western Political Science Association Conference, San Jose, CA,
March 2000
"Empirical Case-Study Analysis of International
Environmental Policy"
Ronald B. Mitchell and Thomas Bernauer. International
Studies Association Conference, Los
Angeles, CA, March 2000
"Transparency's Three Paths of Influence"
International Studies Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA,
March 2000
"Situation Structure and Regime Implementation
Mechanisms"
American Political Science Association Conference, Atlanta, GA,
September 1999
"Labeling: Information as Influence"
Poster session, International Studies Association
Conference, Washington, DC, February 1999
"Identifying Undeclared Nuclear Sites: Contributions
from Nontraditional Sources"
Workshop on Science and Modern Technology for Safeguards
sponsored by the European Safeguards Research and Development Association, the
Institute for Nuclear Materials Management, Sandia National Laboratories, and
the U.S. Department of Energy, Albuquerque,
NM, September 1998
"Symmetry and Sanctions, Asymmetry and Rewards: The
Case of International Environmental Institutions"
Ronald B. Mitchell and Patricia Keilbach. American Political
Science Association Conference, Boston,
MA, September 1998
"Adversarial and Facilitative Approaches to On Site
Inspection in Arms Control and Environmental Regimes"
International Studies Association Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
March 1998; American Political Science Association Conference, Boston, MA,
September 1998
"Creating International Institutions When No One Thinks
There's A Problem: The Wetlands Convention, Nongovernmental Organizations, and
Facilitative Management"
Invited seminar to the Program on International Politics,
Economics, and Security at the University
of Chicago, Chicago,
Illinois, January 1998; invited seminar to the
Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern
University, Evanston, IL,
January 1998
"Deter, Reward, or Prevent: Evaluating the
Effectiveness of Three Nonproliferation Strategies"
International
Studies Association - West Conference, Davis,
CA, October 1997
"Designing
Effective Social Control for Nuclear Safeguards: Matching Strategies to Context
or 'One Size Does Not Fit All'"
19th Annual
Symposium on Safeguards and Nuclear Material Management sponsored by the
European Safeguards Research and Development Association, Montpellier, France,
May 1997 (presented in absentia by Gotthard Stein)
"When Crime
Pays: Remunerative Strategies in Environment and Security Regimes"
International Studies
Association Conference, Toronto,
Canada, March
1997
"Empirical
Qualitative Approaches to the Study of International Environmental Policy"
Ronald B. Mitchell
and Thomas Bernauer. International Studies Association Conference, Toronto, Canada,
March 1997
"Strategies
for International Control of Nuclear Proliferation: Beyond Carrots and
Sticks"
Workshop on Science
and Modern Technology for Safeguards sponsored by the European Safeguards
Research and Development Association and the Institute for Nuclear Materials
Management, Arona, Italy, October 1996
"International
Environmental Common Pool Resources"
International
Studies Association - West Conference, Eugene,
OR, October 1996
"Strategies of
International Social Control: Beyond Carrots and Sticks"
Invited seminar to
the Oregon Humanities Center, University of Oregon, January 1996; invited
seminar to the Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security at
the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, January 1996; First Open Meeting of the
Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Community, Durham, NC, June
1995; International Studies Association Conference, San Diego, CA, April 1996;
and Workshop on Compliance with Nonbinding Legal Agreements, Chantilly, VA, May
1996
"Variation in
the Structure of Environmental Problems and Prospects for Negotiating
Environmental Treaties"
Workshop on Common
Pool Resources and International Environmental Management, Georgetown University, Washington,
DC, November 1995
"Forms of
Discourse, Norms of Sovereignty: Interests, Science, and Morality in the
Regulation of Whaling"
Conference on
Rethinking Sovereignty and Environment, Seattle,
WA, October 1995; and International Studies
Association - West Conference, Eugene,
OR, October 1996
"International
Responses to Global Climate Change"
Detlef Sprinz, Urs
Luterbacher, Daniel Bodansky, Matthew Paterson, Kal Raustiala, Ian Rowlands,
Ronald B. Mitchell, Hugh Ward. International Studies Association Conference, Chicago, IL,
February 1995
"A Taxonomy of
Transparency: Compliance Information Systems in International Environmental
Agreements"
International
Studies Association Conference, Chicago,
IL, February 1995
"Environmental
Implementation and Compliance"
Antonia Handler
Chayes, Abram Chayes, and Ronald B. Mitchell. Symposium on Sustainable
Development and International Law, Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign
Affairs, Vienna, Austria, April 1994
"Regimes Do
Matter: International Treaty Compliance and Intentional Oil Pollution"
American Political
Science Association Conference, Washington, DC, September 1993; Association for Public Policy
Analysis and Management Conference, Washington, DC, October 1993; and American Association for the
Advancement of Science, San Francisco,
CA, February 1994
"Eliciting
Reporting under Environmental Treaties"
Northeast
International Studies Association Conference, Providence, RI,
November 1992
"Membership,
Compliance and Non-Compliance in the International Convention for the
Regulation of Whaling: 1946-Present"
17th Annual Whaling
Symposium, Sharon, MA, October 1992
"Intentional
Oil Pollution of the Oceans: Crises, Public Pressure and Structural
Standards"
International
Studies Association Conference, Atlanta,
GA, April 1992
"Treaty
Compliance: Thoughts on a Research Program"
Conference on
International Treaty Compliance, University
of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois,
March 1992
"Environmental
Treaty Compliance: International Relations Theory, Policy Evaluation Research,
and Intentional Oil Pollution"
Association for
Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference, Bethesda, MD,
October 1991
Teaching awards
Faculty Advisor to
Undergraduate Library Research Award winner, University of Oregon, 2009
(student: Katherine Boom)
Faculty Advisor to
Undergraduate Library Research Award honorable mention recipient, University of Oregon, 2007 (student: Erica Stevenson)
Faculty Advisor to
first Undergraduate Library Research Award winner, University of Oregon,
2005 (student: Dunya Chirchi)
Faculty Partnership
Award, Hoefer Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing, Stanford
University, 2001 (student: Katherine Mezan)
"Wall of
Change," Stanford
University, 2001
Nominee, Mortar
Board Professor of the Month, University of Oregon, 1997-1998, 2000-2001
Nominee, Ersted
Award for Distinguished Teaching, University of Oregon, 1995-1996
Harvard University Certificate of Distinction
in Teaching, 1990-1991