Scott L. Kastner

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of international political conflict on trade are less severe in cases where internationalist economic interests have relatively strong political clout domestically, and further evidence is provided via a brief case study of Mainland China-Taiwan relations.

TL;DR: The authors developed a theoretical framework that distinguishes between three types of economic engagement strategies: conditional policies that directly link economic ties to changed behavior in the target state, unconditional policies where economic interdependence is meant to act as a constraint on the behavior of the target states, and unconditional policies that economic interdependencies are meant to effect a transformation in the foreign policy goals of a target state.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of international regimes on the political influence of domestic players in state decision-making are investigated. But the authors do not consider the effect of domestic institutions and partisanship at the domestic level.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed the travel patterns of top Chinese leaders from 1998 to 2008 and found that they are more consistent with a status quo conceptualization of China, though there are some important exceptions such as willingness to travel to rogue states.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the possibility that China's growing links to the global economy are translating into increased Chinese political influence abroad and explored this possibility quantitatively by ex ectively.