Political Science/Government International Affairs Political Economy
Research Interests:International Relations, International Political Economy, Relations between Industrialized and Developing Countries, Foreign Aid, Preferntial Trade Agreements, World Trade Organization, Climate Change Funding
My research focuses on the evolving nature of relations between industrialized and developing countries. In particular, I focus on the increasing role of underdevelopment as an international security concern. I have written on foreign aid, trade, and climate change as they relate to these broader issues.
Areas of Interest:
foreign aid trade climate change international development international relations international political economy
S.B. Bermeo, Aid is Not Oil: Donor Utility, Heterogeneous Aid, and the Aid-Democratization Relationship,
International Organization
(forthcoming) [PDF] [abs].
Bermeo, SB; Leblang, D, Migration and Foreign Aid,
International Organization, vol. 69 no. 3
(May, 2015),
pp. 627-657, Cambridge University Press (CUP) (Forthcoming, International Organization.) [doi] [abs].
Bermeo, SB, Foreign Aid and Regime Change: A Role for Donor Intent,
World Development, vol. 39 no. 11
(November, 2011),
pp. 2021-2031, Elsevier BV [S0305750X1100194X], [doi] [abs].
Davis, CL; Bermeo, SB, Who files? Developing country participation in GATT/WTO adjudication,
Journal of Politics, vol. 71 no. 3
(July, 2009),
pp. 1033-1049, University of Chicago Press [displayFulltext], [doi] [abs].
S.B. Bermeo, David Leblang, Dustin Tingley, Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right: How Donor Partisanship Shapes the Allocation of Foreign Aid
(2011) [PDF] [abs].
Bermeo, SB, Development and Strategy: Aid Allocation in an Interdependent World
(September, 2010) [abs].
S. Bermeo, A $100 Billion Myth: Lessons for Climate Change Assistance from Sixty Years of ODA
(February, 2011) [PDF] [abs].
