Overview
Write a memo with two components: first, you should pose two thoughtful questions. Second, you should should briefly comment on the following readings.
Here is the Reading: Signaling in IR
Rediscovering Goffman in IR
*Xiaoyu Pu, Rebranding China: Contested Status Signaling in the Changing Global Order (Stanford University Press, 2019), chapters 1-2.
*Rebecca Adler-Nissen, "Stigma management in international relations: Transgressive identities, norms, and order in international society." International Organization (2014): 143-176.
*Roseanne W. McManus and Keren Yarhi-Milo. "The logic of ‘offstage’ signaling: Domestic politics, regime type, and major power-protégé relations." International Organization 71.4 (2017): 701-733.
Audience Cost and Costly Signaling
*James Fearon, "Rationalist explanations for war." International organization 49.03 (1995): 379-414. 6
*James Fearon, " Tying Hands versus Sinking Costs: Signaling foreign policy interests tying hands versus sinking costs." Journal of Conflict Resolution 41.1 (1997): 68-90 *James Fearon, "Domestic political audiences and the escalation of international disputes." American Political Science Review 88.03 (1994): 577-592.
*Jonathan Mercer. "Audience costs are toys." Security Studies 21.3 (2012): 398-404.
*Kai Quek, “Four Costly Signaling Mechanisms.” American Political Science Review 115, no. 2 (May 2021): 537–49.
Is Talk Really Cheap?
*Anne E. Sartori, "The might of the pen: A reputational theory of communication in international disputes." International Organization 56.1 (2002): 121-149.
* Marcus Holmes. "The force of face-to-face diplomacy: Mirror neurons and the problem of intentions." International organization (2013): 829-861