
Research & Service
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
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