(Updated: September 2006)

Public Policy, November 1992

Dissertation: "From Paper to Practice: Improving Environmental Treaty Compliance"

Committee: Abram Chayes (chair), William Clark, Robert Keohane

Public Policy, June 1985

American Studies, June 1981

Department of Political Science, Professor: 2005-present; Associate Professor: 1999-2005; Assistant Professor: 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/).

Center for Environmental Science and Policy and International Policy Studies Program, July 1999-Dec 2001

Conducted research on international regimes and taught international environmental policy and international relations. Course on international environmental politics videotaped and taught in 2002, 2003, and 2004 at ten Russian universities through Stanford's Initiative on Distance Learning. (see http://idl.stanford.edu/102/).

Summer Course on International Environmental Problems, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997

Taught public policy theory as it applies to international environmental politics.

State of Oregon Governor's Advisory Group on Global Warming, Member, 2004.  Final 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-present

DIVERSITAS Task Force Member, 2001-2003

Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research (DISCCRS), Co-PI 2004, Mentor 2003

International Organization, 2002-present

Global Environmental Politics, 1999-present

Journal of Environment and Development, 1995-present

Nominations Committee, Qualitative Methods Section, American Political Science Association, 2003-present

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

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). http://www.disccrs.org/ 

National Science Foundation, "Analysis of the effects of environmental treaties," September 2003 - August 2007 (NSF Award No. SES-0318374). http://iea.uoregon.edu/ 

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

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

Intentional Oil Pollution at Sea: Environmental Policy and Treaty Compliance

The MIT Press, 1994. Winner of the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award, International Studies Association, 1995, for best book on international environmental issues.

Global Environmental Assessments: Information and Influence

Ronald B. Mitchell, William C. Clark, David W. Cash, and Nancy M. Dickson, editors. The MIT Press, 2006.

"The Influence of International Institutions: Institutional Design, Compliance, Effectiveness, and Endogeneity"

Chapter submitted (August 2005) for inclusion in Power, Interdependence and Non-State Actors in World Politics: Research Frontiers. Editors: Helen V. Milner and Andrew Moravcsik. Under review.

"How Can We Improve the Application of Scientific Information to Decision Support related to Carbon Management and Climate Decision-making?"

Lisa Dilling, David Fairman, and Ronald B. Mitchell. Chapter submitted as part of State of the Carbon Cycle Report to be submitted to the United States Climate Change Science Program. Under review.

"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 Simmons and Richard Steinberg. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

"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.

"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. The 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. The 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.

"Science, Scientists, and the Policy Process: Lessons from Global Environmental Assessments for the Northwest Forest"

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. Leverkusen: 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.

Ken Conca, Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building

Global Environmental Politics 6:4 (November 2006).

Corey Lofdahl, Environmental Impacts of Globalization and Trade: A Systems Study

Politics And The Life Sciences, 23:1 (March 2004), forthcoming.

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.

"State Can Be Leader On Clean Car Standards"

Ronald B. Mitchell. 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.

"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.

“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.

"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.

"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.

"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.

"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

Faculty Advisor to first Undergraduate Library Research Award, University of Oregon, 2005 (student: Dunya Chirchi)

Faculty Partnership Award, Hoefer Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing, Stanford University, 2001

"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