Research Interests for Sarah B. Bermeo

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.

Keywords:

foreign aid, trade, climate change, international development, international relations, international political economy

Areas of Interest:

foreign aid
trade
climate change
international development
international relations
international political economy

Representative Publications

1. S.B. Bermeo, Aid is Not Oil: Donor Utility, Heterogeneous Aid, and the Aid-Democratization Relationship, International Organization (forthcoming) [abs]
2. Bermeo, SB; Leblang, D, Migration and Foreign Aid, International Organization, vol. 69 no. 3 (May, 2015), pp. 627-657, Cambridge University Press (CUP), ISSN 0020-8183 (Forthcoming, International Organization.) [doi] [abs]
3. 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, ISSN 0305-750X [S0305750X1100194X], [doi] [abs]
4. 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, ISSN 0022-3816 [displayFulltext], [doi] [abs]
5. 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) [abs]
6. Bermeo, SB, Development and Strategy: Aid Allocation in an Interdependent World (September, 2010) [abs]
7. S. Bermeo, A $100 Billion Myth: Lessons for Climate Change Assistance from Sixty Years of ODA (February, 2011) [abs]