Research

International Organizations | International Political Economy | East Asian Politics | Cooperation & Conflict

I am interested in how international organizations function as both forums for state cooperation or conflict and actors influencing the stability and structure of the international system. How do IOs operate, reform, fail, and evolve, both as individual organizations but also as a population? How do non-democratic states work through IOs, following international norms of multilateralism to support autocratic goals? How do IOs provide new ways for states to cooperate or compete? How do states cooperate or compete by economic means, such as trade or FDI. Regionally I focus on East Asia, but also Central Asia & the Pacific.

Published Research

• Wang, Austin Horng-En, and Darrell Carter. "The Past is Present: Underestimating Fear of Contemporary Reprisals in the Legacy of Political Violence." Political Science (2025): 1-11.

• Reflection: Carter, Darrell. “Life Isn’t Fair, But Our Classrooms Could Be: Mitigating Stress to Address Rising Academic Dishonesty” Political Science Educator 2024

• Carter, Darrell, Maddison Westcott, Ruth Boitel, and Austin Horng-En Wang. 2023. “Puppet Anchors and China’s YouTube Information Operation.” Taiwan Politics, December.

Under Review

• Wang, Carter, Benjelloun, Banerjee, and Cervantes. “Polarized by Moderates” 2024

Working Papers

• Carter, Darrell. “Death, Design, and Authoritarianism: Impact of Institutional Design on Authoritarian International Organizations”

• Carter, Darrell. “Institutional Evolution: Replaced International Organizations and their Successors”

Conferences

• ISA 2021, 2022, 2025

• ISA Midwest 2020, 2023, 2024

• MPSA 2020 (Covid Cancellation) & 2024

Service

• 22/’23 President UNLV Political Science graduate student organization

• ‘21/’22 Co-Founder and Vice President UNLV Political Science graduate student organization

• Research Development: Organized and hosted research and professionalization workshops

• Recruitment: Organized and hosted virtual department visits for prospective graduate students