Author Meets Critics: Danielle L. Lupton's "Reputation for Resolve"

Session Submission Type: Author meet critics

Session Description

This author meets critics panel for this recent Cornell University Press (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) book brings together top scholars across foreign policy analysis and international security. It includes experts on leaders and conflict, reputation and signaling, and coercion in international politics. In a discussion with the author, panelists will offer critical reflections of the book's argument and empirical evidence, as well as discuss its contributions to IR and policy. Lupton's Reputation for Resolve considers how new leader-specific reputations for resolve form and what impact these reputations have on crisis bargaining. Using innovative survey experiments and in-depth archival research into American-Soviet relations, Lupton finds that leaders acquire personal reputations for resolve based on their foreign policy statements and behavior. Furthermore, she shows that statements create expectations of how a leader will react to foreign policy crises in the future. Reputation for Resolve challenges the often-publicized view that reputations do not matter in international politics. The book reframes our understanding of the influence of leaders and their rhetoric on crisis bargaining and the role reputations play in international politics.

Sub Unit

• Division 20: Foreign Policy

Cosponsor

• Division 21: Conflict Processes

Chair

• Danielle Lupton Colgate University

Presenters

• Stacie E. Goddard Wellesley College

• Michael Horowitz University of Pennsylvania

• Joshua D. Kertzer Harvard University

• Eleonora Mattiacci Amherst College

• Todd S. Sechser University of Virginia