Thomas Bernauer

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Thomas Bernauer (born May 20, 1963 in London , Ontario ) is a Swiss - Canadian political scientist and professor of international politics at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich .

academic career

Thomas Bernauer studied political science, history and international law at the University of Zurich , where he graduated in 1988 with a licentiate. From 1988 to 1992 he was as a research assistant at the United Nations operates (United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)). In this context, he completed his dissertation and received a doctorate in political science from the University of Zurich in 1992. He then worked as a senior assistant at the University of Zurich. In 1995 he was appointed assistant professor for international relations at the ETH Zurich. He has been a full professor since 2004.

research

Bernauer's research deals with questions of international political economy and environmental policy. He is the author of numerous books and scientific articles in international specialist journals that have been published by renowned publishers.

Publications (selection)

Books

  • Bernauer, Thomas. 2003. Genes, Trade and Regulation: The Seeds of Conflict in Food Biotechnology. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Bernauer, Thomas. 2000. States in the world market. Opladen: Leske & Budrich
  • Bernauer, Thomas and Dieter Ruloff. 2000. Global change and Swiss foreign policy: information gathering and decision making. Zurich: Verlag Rüegger.
  • Bernauer, Thomas and Dieter Ruloff. 1999. The Politics of Positive Incentives in Arms Control. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.
  • Bernauer, Thomas and Dieter Ruloff. 1999. Trade and the Environment: On the Compatibility of International Regimes. Opladen: West German publishing house.
  • Gerald Schneider, Patricia A. Weitsman and Thomas Bernauer. 1995. Towards a New Europe: Stops and Starts in Regional Integration. Westport, CT: Praeger.
  • Bernauer, Thomas and Jasjit Singh. 1993. Security of Third World Countries. Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishers.
  • Bernauer, Thomas. 1990. The Chemistry of Regime Formation: Explaining International Cooperation for a Comprehensive Ban on Chemical Weapons. Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishers, 1993.
  • Bernauer, Thomas. 1990. The Projected Chemical Weapons Convention: A Guide to the Negotiations in the Conference on Disarmament. New York: United Nations.

Magazine articles

  • Bernauer, Thomas and Patrick Kuhn. 2010. Is There an Environmental Version of the Kantian Peace? Insights From Water Pollution in Europe, in: European Journal of International Relations, forthcoming.
  • Bernauer, Thomas, Vally Koubi and Fabio Ernst. 2009. Does Neutrality Make a Difference? Explaining Patterns of Swiss Defense Spending, 1975–2001, in: Defense and Peace Economics, forthcoming.
  • Bättig, Michèle B. and Thomas Bernauer. 2009. National Institutions and Global Public Goods: Are Democracies More Cooperative in Climate Change Policy? International Organization 63 (2): 281-308.
  • Bernauer, Thomas and Vally Koubi. 2009. Effects of Political Institutions on Air Quality, in: Ecological Economics 68 (5): 1355-1365.
  • Bernauer, Thomas, Vally Koubi and Fabio Ernst. 2009. Economic Consequences of Swiss Defense Spending, in: Journal of Peace Research 46 (4): 467-484.
  • Bernauer, Thomas and Tobias Siegfried. 2008. On Cooperation, Compliance and Performance in International Water Management, with an empirical application to the Syr Darya Basin, in: Global Governance 14 (4): 479–501.
  • Tobias Siegfried and Thomas Bernauer. 2007. Estimating the Performance of International Regulatory Regimes: Methodology and Empirical Application to International Water Management in the Naryn / Syr Darya Basin, in: Water Resources Research 43: W11406.
  • Aerni, Philipp and Thomas Bernauer. 2006. Stakeholder Perceptions of GMOs in the Philippines, Mexico, and South Africa and the Global Competition for Public Trust, in: World Development 34 (3): 557-575.
  • Bernauer, Thomas and Ladina Caduff. 2006. Managing Risk and Regulation in European Food Safety Governance, in: Review of Policy Research 23 (1): 153–168.
  • Bernauer, Thomas and Vally Koubi. 2006. On the Interconnectedness of Regulatory Policy and Markets: Insights From Banking, in: British Journal of Political Science 36 (3): 509-525.
  • Hostmann, Markus, Thomas Bernauer, Hans-Joachim Mosler, Peter Reichert and Bernhard Truffer . 2006. Multi-Attribute Value Theory as a Framework for Conflict Resolution in River Rehabilitation, in: Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 13: 91-102.
  • Rieckermann, Jörg, Helge Daebel, Mariska Ronteltap and Thomas Bernauer. 2006. Assessing the Performance of International Water Management at Lake Titicaca, Aquatic Sciences 68 (4): 502-516.
  • Bernauer, Thomas and Thomas Sattler. 2006. Are WTO disputes in the environmental and consumer protection area more likely to escalate ?, in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Zusammenarbeit 13 (1): 5-38.
  • Bernauer, Thomas. 2004. Causes and Consequences of International Trade Conflict Over Agricultural Biotechnology, in: International Journal of BioTechnology 7 (1-3): 7-28.
  • Bernauer, Thomas and Ladina Caduff. 2004. In Whose Interest? Pressure Group Politics, Economic Competition and Environmental Regulation, in: Journal of Public Policy 24 (1): 99–126.
  • Bernauer, Thomas and Vally Koubi. 2004. Banking Crisis vs. Credit crunch? A Cross-Country Compari-son of Policy Responses to Dilemmas in Banking Regulation, in: Business and Politics 6 (2).
  • Bernauer, Thomas and Vit Styrsky. 2004. Adjustment or Voice? Corporate Responses to International Tax Competition, in: European Journal of International Relations 10 (1): 61–94.
  • Bernauer, Thomas and Erika Meins. 2003. Technological Revolution Meets Policy and the Market: Explaining Cross-National Differences in Agricultural Biotechnology Regulation, in: European Journal of Political Research 42 (5): 643-683.
  • Bernauer, Thomas and Ronald Mitchell. 1998. Empirical Research on International Environmental Policy: Designing Qualitative Case Studies, in: Journal of Environment and Development 7 (1): 4-31.
  • Bernauer, Thomas. 1995. Theory of club goods and the eastward expansion of NATO, in: Journal for International Relations 2 (1): 79-105.
  • Bernauer, Thomas. 1995. The Effect of International Environmental Institutions: How We Might Learn More, in: International Organization 49 (2): 351-377.

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personal data
SURNAME Bernauer, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss political scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH London (Ontario) , Canada