Professorof International Relations Emeritus

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John S. Odell

Professorof International Relations Emeritus

School of International Relations

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California USA 900890043, and

Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Email: ; Telephone 626-405-1991

Web://dornsife.usc.edu/odell-personal-web-page

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of WisconsinMadison, 1976, in Political Science

M.A., University of WisconsinMadison, 1968

B.A. with High Honors, University of TexasAustin, 1967

Languages: Spanish (strong reading and speaking ability); French (some reading ability)

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

Director, USC School of International Relations 2009-2012

Director, USC Doctoral Program in Political Economy and Public Policy, 2005-2008

Editor, International Organization, 1992-1996

Director, USCCenter for International Studies, 1989-1992

Professor, University of Southern California, 1990-2013, Associate Professor 1982-1990

Assistant Professor, Department of Government, and Faculty Associate at the Center for International Affairs, HarvardUniversity, 19761982

First and Second Lieutenant, US Army, 1969-1971

Lecturer, Department of Government, Southwest Texas State University, 1968-1969

Visiting Scholarappointments:

• Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, 2002
• Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, 1994-1995
• Research Institute of Japan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry, 1989
• Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, 19851987
• Office of U.S. Trade Representative, Executive Office of the President, 19841985
• The Brookings Institution, 1975

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

6. Negotiating Trade: Developing Countries in the WTO and NAFTA, ed. John Odell (CambridgeUniversity Press, 2006).Authored: “Introduction”; “Reframing the Issue: The WTO Coalition on Intellectual Property and Public Health, 2001,” with Susan K. Sell; and “The Strict Distributive Strategy for a Bargaining Coalition: The Like Minded Group in the World Trade Organization,” with Amrita Narlikar.

5. Negotiating the World Economy (CornellUniversity Press, 2000.) Published in Chinese (Beijing: World Affairs Press, 2004) and Spanish (Mexico City: Ediciones Gernika, 2004).

4. International Trade Policies: Gains from Exchange between Economics and Political Science, ed. with Thomas D. Willett (University of Michigan Press, 1990).

3. International Monetary Cooperation, Domestic Politics, and Policy Ideas, double special issue of the Journal of Public Policy, 8 (July December 1988) edited with T.D. Willett.

2. AntiProtection: Changing Forces in U.S. Trade Politics (Institute for International Economics, 1987), with I.M. Destler. Published in Japanese, 1990.

1. U.S. International Monetary Policy: Markets, Power, and Ideas as Sources of Change (Princeton University Press, 1982).

PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

12. “Negotiating from Weakness in International Trade Relations,” Journal of World Trade 44 (2010): 544-66

1. “Three Islands of Knowledge about Negotiation in International Organizations,” Journal of European Public Policy17 (2010): 619-32

1. “Breaking Deadlocks in International Institutional Negotiations: The WTO, Seattle, and Doha,” International Studies Quarterly53 (2009):273-99

1. “Chairing a WTO Negotiation,” Journal of International Economic Law 8 (2) (2005): 425-48. Also in Reforming the World Trade System: Legitimacy, Efficiency, and Democratic Governance, ed. Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann (OxfordUniversity Press, 2005), 469-96

8. “Creating Data on International Negotiation Strategies, Alternatives, and Outcomes," International Negotiation 7 (2002):39-52

7. “Case Study Methods in International Political Economy,” International Studies Perspectives 2 (May 2001): 161-76. Also in Cases, Numbers, Models: International Relations Research Methods, ed. D. Sprinz and Y. Wolinsky (University of Michigan Press, 2004)

6. “International Economic Negotiation, Strategy Choice and Policy Beliefs,” Leviathan (in Japanese), Fall 1997

5. "Understanding International Trade Policies: An Emerging Synthesis," World Politics 43 (1) (October 1990): 139167. Rpt. in Trade and Investment Policy, ed. Thomas Brewer (Edward Elgar, 1998)

4. "From London to Bretton Woods: Sources of Change in Bargaining Strategies and Outcomes," Journal of Public Policy, 8 (JulyDecember 1988): 287316. Published in Japanese in Leviathan (1992), and inThe Reconstruction of the International Economy, 1945-1960, ed. Barry Eichengreen (Edward Elgar, 1996)

3. "The Outcomes of International Trade Conflicts: The U.S. and South Korea, 19601981," International Studies Quarterly 29 (3) (September 1985): 263286.

2. "Latin American Trade Negotiations with the United States," International Organization 34 (Spring 1980): 207228. Published in Spanish by Cuadernos Semestrales (Mexico), 1980

1. "The U.S. and the Emergence of Flexible Exchange Rates: An Analysis of Foreign Policy Change," in International Organization 33 (Winter 1979): 5782. Earlier version published in German by Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 1977

OTHER ARTICLES, CHAPTERS AND SHORT MONOGRAPHS

24. “Negotiating Agreements in International Relations,” in Negotiating Agreements in Politics, ed. Jane Mansbridge and Cathie Jo Martin (American Political Science Association, 2013), 144-88. Co-authored by Dustin Tingley with Fen Osler Hampson, Andrew H. Kydd, Brett Ashley Leeds, James K. Sebenius, Janice Gross Stein, Barbara F. Walter, and I. William Zartman. Chapter 7 of the report of a 2012-13 APSA Task Force (

23. “Negotiation and Bargaining,” in Handbook of International Relations, 2d. edition, ed. Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse, and Beth Simmons (Sage, 2013),379-400.

22. “Trade policy.” In Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History, vol. 7, edited by Richard Valelly (CQ Press, forthcoming)

21. “Growing Power Meets Frustration in the Doha Round’s First Four Years,” in Developing Countries and Global Trade Negotiations, ed. Larry Crump and Javed Maswood (Routledge, 2007), 7-40.

20. “La OMC, otra vez en punto muerto [The WTO, deadlocked again]," Foreign Affairs en Español 3 (Julio-Septiembre 2003):111-118

19. “The Seattle Impasse and Its Implications for the World Trade Organization,” in The Political Economy of International Trade Law, ed. Daniel L. M. Kennedy and James D. Southwick. (Cambridge University Press, 2002), 400-29.

18. “Bounded Rationality and the World Political Economy,”in Governing the World’s Money, ed. D. Andrews, R. Henning, and L. Pauly (Cornell University Press, 2002)

17. “Market Conditions and International Economic Negotiation: Japan and the United States in 1971,” in International Economic Negotiations: Models versus Reality, ed. Victor Kremenyuk and Gunnar Sjöstedt (Edward Elgar, 2000).

16. “The United States, the ITO, and the WTO: Exit Options, Agent Slack, and Presidential Leadership,” in The WTO as an International Organization, ed. Anne O. Krueger (University of Chicago Press, 1998), with Barry Eichengreen

15. "International Threats and Internal Politics: Brazil, the European Community, and the United States, 19851987," in Double Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics, ed. Peter Evans, Harold K. Jacobson, and Robert D. Putnam (University of California Press, 1993)

14. "Comment" in A Retrospective on the Bretton Woods System, ed. Michael Bordo and Barry Eichengreen (University of Chicago Press, 1993)

13. Brazilian Informatics and the United States: Defending Infant Industry versus Opening Foreign Markets (Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, 1992), with Anne Dibble

12. European Community Enlargement and the United States (Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, 1992), with Margit MatzingerTchakerian

11. Korean Joggers (Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, 1992), with David Lang

10. "United States Trade Policy, Free Trade and Protectionism: Policy Stability and Corporate Risk," in Trade Policy and Corporate Business Decisions, eds. Tamir Agmon and Christine Hekman (Oxford University Press, 1990), with Thomas D. Willett

9. "Developing Country CoalitionBuilding and International Trade Negotiations," in Trade Policy and the Developing World, ed. John Whalley, I, 149-170 (University of Michigan Press, 1989), with Miles Kahler

8. "Growing Trade and Growing Conflict Between Latin America and the United States," in The United States and Latin America in the 1980s, ed. Kevin Middlebrook and Carlos Rico (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986)

7. "Growing Trade and Growing Conflict Between the Republic of Korea and the United States," in From Patron to Partner: The Development of U.S.Korean Business and Trade Relations, ed. Karl Moskowitz (Lexington Books, 1984)

6. "Latin American Industrial Exports and Trade Negotiations with the United States," in Economic Issues and Political Conflict: U.S.Latin American Relations, ed. Jorge I. Dominguez (Butterworths, 1982)

5. "Bretton Woods and International Political Disintegration: Implications for Monetary Diplomacy," in The Political Economy of Domestic and International Monetary Relations, ed. Raymond Lombra and William Witte (Iowa State University Press, 1982)

4. "The Politics of Debt Relief: Official Creditors and Brazil, Ghana, and Chile," in Debt and the Less Developed Countries, ed. Jonathan Aronson (Westview Press, 1979)

3. "The Hostility of U.S. External Behavior: An Exploration," in Sage International Yearbook of Foreign Policy Studies 3 (1975)

2. "Correlates of U.S. Military Assistance and Military Intervention," in Testing Theories of Economic Imperialism, ed. Steven Rosen and James Kurth (DC Heath Lexington Books, 1974)

1. “Political Public Relations in Texas Campaigning,” in Documents and Readings in American and Texas Government, ed. E. A. DeShazo, R. D. Wrinkle, and R. W. Bland (Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1969).

REVIEWS

Investing in Protection: The Politics of Preferential Trade Agreements between North and South, by Mark Manger. Perspectives on Politics 9 (March 2011):228-9.

“Analyzing Complex U.S. Trade Negotiations,” review of Case Studies in U.S. Trade Negotiation, 2 vols., by C. Devereaux, R. Lawrence and M. Watkins. Negotiation Journal (July 2008), 355-70, with Larry Crump

“A Major Milestone with One Major Limitation,” review of Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences by A. George and A. Bennett, Qualitative Methods 4 (Spring 2006), 37-40

Open-Economy Politics: The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade by Robert H. Bates. American Political Science Review 95 (March 2001):250-1

Hanging Together: Cooperation and Conflict in the Seven-Power Summits, by Robert D. Putnam and Nicholas Bayne, in Journal of Public Policy, 1988

Mexico's Dilemma: The Political Origins of Economic Crisis, by Roberto Newell and Luis Rubio, in Journal of International Business Studies, 1985

Governments, Markets and Growth: Financial Systems and the Politics of Industrial Change, by John Zysman, in Political Science Quarterly, 1985

United States International Economic Policy in Action: Diversity of Decision Making, by Stephen D. Cohen and Ronald I. Meltzer, American Political Science Review, March 1984

Congress and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Economic Policy, 19291976, by Robert Pastor, in Journal of Politics, 1983

Tariffs, Quotas and Trade: The Politics of Protectionism, (Institute for Contemporary Studies), Journal of Politics, August, 1980

President Eisenhower and Strategy Management: A Study in Defense Politics, by Douglas Kinnard, Journal of Politics, August 1979

COMMENTARY

“A Grand Bargain to Save the WTO from Declining Relevance,” a think piece for the E15 Expert Group on the Functioning of the WTO, July 2013. Geneva: International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, and Bern: World Trade Institute.

“How Should the WTO Launch and Negotiate a Future Round?” Submitted for publication by the Centre for Economic Policy Research, May 2013.

“A few tricks of the negotiating trade, but can they produce a rabbit by November?” World Trade Agenda, 2 July 2001, 12-14

SELECTED UNPUBLISHED PAPERS AND REPORTS

“How Should the WTO Launch and Negotiate a Future Round?” October 2012, for a conference at the World Bank and George Washington University

How to Negotiate over Trade: A Summary of New Research for Developing Countries. Distributed by the WTO, UNCTAD, and on line (2004), with Antonio Ortiz Mena

“Problems in Negotiating Consensus in the World Trade Organization,” presented at a conference at PekingUniversity, 10 July 2001, and the APSA, September 2001

HONORS AND GRANTS

USC Mellon Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduates, April 2009

Smuts Commonwealth Lecture, University of Cambridge, March 2009

Stanford University, Institute for International Studies, Fellowship, 1994-1995

Ford Foundation, grant to study international trade, international organizations, and negotiations, 1989-1990, with T. W. Willett

Social Science Research Council, Advanced Research Fellowship in Foreign Policy Studies, for study of the domestic political process, foreign policy, and international economic bargaining, 1987-1989

Ford Foundation, grant to hold two conferences on the blending of economic and political analysis of international economic relations, 19861988, with T.D. Willett.

Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, 19841985

Ford Foundation, Program in International Economic Order, grant to study trade conflicts between the U.S. and newly industrialized countries, 1979-1982

Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in International Relations, 19791981 (declined)

Institute for the Study of World Politics, Research grant, 19791980 (declined)

HarvardUniversity, Center for International Affairs, Fellowship, 19751976

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Research grant, 1975

International Studies Association, Prize for Best Student Paper, 1973

PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP, SERVICE, AND MEMBERSHIPS

Founder and coordinator of the Economic Negotiation Network ( a worldwide virtual network of researchers, 2002-present

Editorial boards:

• International Organization:Member 1984 to 2003; chair of the Investment Committee, 1999-2003; Senior Advisor to the Editor, 2006-present
• Journal of Public Policy, 1990-2002
• Journal of Politics, 1982-1988
• Book series published by University of Michigan Press, Westview Press, Martinus Nijhoff

Review panelsand examining:

• University of Toronto, review of Centre for International Studies, January 2008
• Swiss National Science Foundation, member of review panel for its National Center for Research on International Trade Regulation, 2006-2014
• University of Oxford, external examiner of doctoral candidates, 2006-2011
• Pomona College, review of international relations program
• U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Steering Committee, Technology and Trade Policies, member 1991
• Harvard University, Pew Faculty Fellowship, Selection Board member 1989-1994
• Confidential peer reviewer of promotion dossiers for many universities
• Confidential peer reviewer for the US National Science Foundation, the Swiss national Science Foundation, and many professional journals

Member of Council on Foreign Relations, American Political Science Association, International Studies Association

American Political Science Association

• 2012-2013: co-chair, IR working group, presidential task force on Negotiating Agreements in Politics, with Dustin Tingley

• 2003-04: member of the International Committee
• 1999: Chair of the Hubert Humphrey Award committee
• 1985: Chair of Helen Dwight Reid Award committee

International Studies Association

• 2007-10: member of publication committee, to choose and oversee editors of ISA journals

University Of Southern California

• University Employee Benefits Committee, member 2003-2007
• University Faculty Handbook Committee, chair and member 2000-2002
• University Committee on Appointments, Promotion and Tenure, social sciences chair and member 1996-1999
• College Promotion Committee, social scienceschair 2008-09
• College Faculty Council, member 2006-2007
• Doctoral Program in Political Economy and Public Policy, Director, 2005-08, Coordinating Committee member 1996, 2002
• School of International Relations (SIR) Director’s Advisory and merit review committee, member and chair,many years 1982to 2009
• SIR honors program, director 2000-2011
• SIR, International Political Economy field, coordinator 1995-2009
• SIR self-review report, co-author with A. F. Lowenthal, 2000
• SIR faculty recruitment committees, including those to fill the Dockson Chair and the McCone Chair, chair and member, many years
• SIRgraduate admissions committee, member 1999-2000, 2002-3
• Center for International Studies advisory committee, member 1997-98, 2001-02, 2009-12

CONSULTANCIES

The Asia Foundation, 1997; México, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Instituto Tecnológico Autónoma de México, a short course in negotiations, 1991. Earlier: Ford Foundation, Council of the Americas, the World Bank, U.S. Department of State

INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCES besidesregular academic conventions

Discussant, conference on Negotiating Climate Change, ETH Zurich and University of Zurich, September 2011

Co-chair, with US Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley, conference on the international security environment, US Air Force leadership and US west coast scholars, at USC, 26 April 2011

The Smuts Commonwealth Lecture at the University of Cambridge, 12 March 2009; also given at London School of Economics and Political Science, March 2009 and University of California Irvine, May 2009

Discussant, conference on “The Genesis of the GATT,” American Law Institute and ColumbiaUniversityLawSchool, November 2007

Lecture, “Why the Doha Round Has Stalemated and What is Needed Now,” National Association of Business Economics, San Francisco, September 2007

Lecture, “Developing Country Negotiating Strategies in the WTO,” at a conference on Adapting to the New Asian Giants, at Brown University and Bryant University, April 2007

Presented a paper on “Negotiating International Institutions: Institutional Change from the GATT to the WTO,” University of Oxford, December 2006

Presented a paper on “Breaking Deadlocks in International Regime Negotiations: The WTO, Seattle, Doha,” at Aoyama Gakuin University Tokyo, December 2001; Yonsei University, Seoul, June 2002; the European University Institute, Florence, October 2002; the Graduate Institute of International Studies Geneva, November 2002; the USC Center for International Studies, January 2003; University of Cambridge, December 2006

Three lectures on “Conducting and Mediating International Negotiations,” Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Buenos Aires, October 2005

Lectures on “Negotiating the World Economy,” at the University of Guadalajara, Autonomous Technological Institute of México, Panamerican University, and Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, México City, May 2004; gave press conference on the WTO for five major México City dailies

Organized and co-chaired (with Cédric Dupont) a conference on Developing Countries’ Trade Negotiations, held at the United Nations Geneva headquarters, November 2003; conference opened by Rubens Ricupero, Secretary General of UNCTAD, and Supachai Panitchpakdi, Director General of the WTO

“Will the WTO Break its Deadlock in Cancún?” at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico, Mexico City, 21 August 2003. Gave an informal briefing in Spanish to six Mexican federal Senators and their advisers

Presented a paper on “Problems in Negotiating Consensus in the World Trade Organization,” at a conference at PekingUniversity, July 2001

Presented a paper on “The Seattle Impasse and Its Implications for the World Trade Organization,” at a conference co-sponsored by the World Bank at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, July 2000, a conference at the University of Minnesota, September 2000, and the International Studies Association convention, February 2001

“Negotiating the World Economy,” at the University of South Carolina and the Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C., May 2000

Discussant at a Conference on Cognition, Emotion, and Rational Choice, UCLA, April 2000

Participant in conference on international finance, University of California Santa Barbara, January 2000

Discussant at a conference on European Monetary Union, Claremont-McKennaCollege, April 1998

Discussant at a conference on Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, University of Southern California, September 1997

“Prospects for Research on Economic Bargaining,” Sejong Institute, Seoul, August 1997

“Military-Political Conditions and International Economic Negotiations,” University of Chicago, May 1997

“Interviews, case studies, and theory building,” DukeUniversity, April 1995

“International Political Economy,” CentralEuropeanUniversity, Budapest, March 1995

“Recent Trends in International Relations Research: an Editor's Perspective,” StanfordUniversity, February 1995; University of California-Santa Barbara, April 1993