Joseph Grieco | Scholars@Duke

Joseph Grieco
Professor of Political Science

Professor of Political Science, concentrates on theories of international relations, issues of international political economy, and problems of international conflict. He is the author of Cooperation Among Nations: Europe, America, and Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade, and Between Dependency and Autonomy: India's Experience with the International Computer Industry; and the co-author (with G. John Ikenberry) of State Power and World Markets: The International Political Economy. Articles and notes by him have appeared in Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, Review of International Studies, the American Political Science Review, International Organization, the Journal of Politics, and World Politics. His teaching interests include theories of international relations and issues of international political economy. His appointments include: 1978-1979, Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for International Studies at Princeton University; 1981-1982, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Harvard Business School; 1985-86, a German Marshall and a Paul Henri Spaak Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He served with the Office of the United States Trade Representative and the International Monetary Fund as an International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, 1990-91. During the summer of 1994 he was the Karl W. Deutsch Visiting Professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin; and since 1996 he has been a Visiting Professor at the Post Graduate School of Economics and International Relations at the Catholic University of Milan. During 1998-2000 he received support from the National Science Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to conduct research, and to produce two articles (one co-authored with Christopher Gelpi), on the domestic and systematic sources of repetitive military challenges.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor of Political Science, Political Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1993

Contact Information

291 Gross Hall, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90204, Durham, NC 27708-0204
grieco@duke.edu (919) 428-0676

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Cornell University 1982
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Professor with Tenure, Political Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1989 - 1993
- Assistant Professor, Political Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1981 - 1989
Recognition
In the News
- DEC 13, 2022
  
  2022 in Review: Duke Expertise in the Opinion Pages
- JUL 16, 2015 WPR’s “Central Time"
  
  Joseph Grieco: How Iran deal could affect the United States
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
  - India (Country)
  - Iran (Islamic Republic of) (Country)
- Teaching
  - Italy (Country)
Research
Selected Grants
- Democratic States and Repeat Military Challenges, 1918-1994 awarded by National Science Foundation 1998 - 2001
- War and Wealth in the International System: China, Japan, and Germany awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1997 - 1998
- Josiah Charles Trent Speakers Series in International Law and Institutions awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1994
- Symposium on International Prosperity and Security in the 1990s awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1993 - 1994
- The Renaissance of the European Community and the Crisis of Realist International Theory awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1992 - 1993
- Support for Six Visiting Scholars to Participate in the Duke Symposium in International Relations awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1988
External Relationships
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- catholic university of milan
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Grieco, Joseph, and G John Ikenberry. State Power and World Markets: The International Political Economy. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.
  - Grieco, J. Cooperation Among Nations: Europe, America, and Non-tariff Barriers to Trade. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.
  - Grieco, Joseph M. Between Dependency and Autonomy. Univ of California Press, 1984.
- Academic Articles
  - Matsumura, N., A. Tago, and J. M. Grieco. “External Threats and Public Opinion: The East Asian Security Environment and Japanese Views on the Nuclear Option.” Journal of East Asian Studies 23, no. 1 (March 2, 2023): 23–44. https://doi.org/10.1017/jea.2022.40.
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  - Gelpi, C., and J. M. Grieco. “Competency Costs in Foreign Affairs: Presidential Performance in International Conflicts and Domestic Legislative Success, 1953-2001.” American Journal of Political Science 59, no. 2 (April 1, 2015): 440–56. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12169.
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  - Grieco, J. M., C. Gelpi, J. Reifler, and P. D. Feaver. “Let's Get a Second Opinion: International Institutions and American Public Support for War.” International Studies Quarterly 55, no. 2 (June 1, 2011): 563–83. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2478.2011.00660.x.
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  - Grieco, J. M. “Liberal International Theory and Imagining the End of the Cold War.” British Journal of International Relations 11, no. 2 (May 2009): 192–204.
  - Grieco, J., C. Gelpi, and C. Warren. “When Preferences and Commitments Collide: The Effect of Relative Partisan Shifts on International Treaty Compliance.” International Organization, March 2009.
  - Gelpi, C. F., and J. M. Grieco. “Democracy, interdependence, and the sources of the liberal peace.” Journal of Peace Research 45, no. 1 (January 1, 2008): 17–36. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343307084921.
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  - Christopher Gelpi, Joseph M. “Democracy, Interdependence, and the Liberal Peace.” Journal of Peace Research 45 (2008): 17–36.
  - Grieco, J. “The U.S. Presidential Election and Unilateralism: What the Public Wants.” The World Today 60 (April 2004): 15–16.
  - Grieco, J. “Repetitive Military Challenges and Recurrent International Conflicts, 1918-1994.” International Studies Quarterly 45 (June 2001): 295–316.
  - Gelpi, C., and J. M. Grieco. “Attracting trouble: Democracy, leadership tenure, and the targeting of militarized challenges, 1918-1992.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 45, no. 6 (January 1, 2001): 794–817. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002701045006005.
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  - Grieco, J. “State Interests and International Rule Trajectories: A Neorealist Interpretation of the Maastricht Treaty and European Economic and Monetary Union.” Security Studies 5 (March 1996): 176–222.
  - Grieco, J. M. “State interests and institutional rule trajectories: A neorealist interpretation of the Maastricht Treaty and European Economic and Monetary Union.” Security Studies 5, no. 3 (January 1, 1996): 261–306. https://doi.org/10.1080/09636419608429281.
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  - Grieco, J. “The Maastricht Treaty, Economic and Monetary Union, and the Neorealist Research Programme.” Review of International Studies 21 (January 1995): 21–40.
  - Grieco, Joseph, Robert Powell, and Duncan Snidal. “The Relative-Gains Problem for International Cooperation.” American Political Science Review 87, no. 3 (September 1993): 729–43. https://doi.org/10.2307/2938747.
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  - Grieco, J. “Realist Theory and the Problem of International Cooperation: Analysis with an Amended Prisoner's Dilemma Model.” Journal of Politics 50 (August 1988): 600–625.
  - Grieco, J. “Anarchy and the Limits of Cooperation: A Realist Critique of the Newest Liberal Institutionalism.” International Organization 42 (July 1988): 485–508.
  - Grieco, J. “Between Dependency and Autonomy: India’s Experience with the International Computer Industry.” International Organization 36 (1982): 609–32.
  - Grieco, J. “The Concorde SST and Change in the British Polity.” World Politics 31 (July 1979): 518–38.
- Book Sections
  - Grieco, J. M. “Realist international theory and the study of world politics.” In New Thinking in International Relations Theory, 163–201, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429498688.
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  - Grieco, J. M. “Nuclear weapons, state bellicosity, and prospects for an East Asian security architecture.” In Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Architecture and Beyond, 43–64, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203118443-8.
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  - Grieco, J. M. “Modern realist theory and the study of international politics in the twenty-first century.” In Realism and Institutionalism in International Studies, 42–59, 2009.
  - Grieco, J. M. “Structural realism and the problem of polarity and war.” In Power in World Politics, 64–82, 2007. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203944691-9.
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  - Grieco, J. “Economic Interdependence, the Democratic State, and the Liberal Peace.” In Economic Interdependence and Military Conflict: New Perspectives on an Enduring Debate, edited by Edward D. Mansfield and Brian M. Pollins. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003.
  - Grieco, J. “China and America in the New World Polity.” In The Rise of China in Asia: Security Implications, edited by Carolyn W. Pumphrey, 21–48. Carlisle: Strategic Studies Institute, 2002.
  - Grieco, J. “China, Japan, and Germany in the New World Polity.” In Peace, Prosperity, and Politics. Boulder: Westview Press, 2000.
  - Grieco, J. “Realism and Regionalism: American Power and German and Japanese Institutional Strategies During and After the Cold War.” In Unipolar Politics: Realism and State Strategies After the Cold War, edited by Ethan Kapstein and Michael Mastanduno. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
  - Grieco, J. “Political-Military Dynamics and the Nesting of Regimes: An Analysis of APEC, the WTO, and Prospects for Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific.” In APEC and Regime Creation in Asia and the Pacific, edited by Vinod Aggarwal and Charles Morrison. New York: MacMillan, 1998.
  - Grieco, J. “Realist Theory and the Study of World Politics.” In New Thinking in International Relations Theory, edited by Michael Doyle and G John Ikenberry. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997.
  - Grieco, J. “Systemic Sources of Variation in Regional Institutionalization in Western Europe, East Asia, and the Americas.” In The Political Economy of Regionalism, edited by Helen Milner and Edward Mansfield. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
  - Grieco, J. “Understanding the Problem of International Cooperation: the Limitations of Neoliberal Institutionalism and the Future of Realist Theory.” In Neorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debate, edited by David Baldwin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
  - Grieco, J. “Introduction (two parts).” In The International System and the International Political Economy, edited by Joseph M. Grieco. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1993.
  - Grieco, J. “Foreign Direct Investment and Third World Development: Theories and Evidence.” In Investing in Development: New Roles for Private Investment?, edited by Theodore H. Moran. New Brunswick: Transaction Books for the Overseas Development Council, 1986.
  - Grieco, J. “American Multinationals and International Order.” In Institutions for Projecting American Values Abroad, Vol. 32. Lanham: University Press of America, 1983.
- Other Articles
  - Gelpi, C., and J. M. Grieco. “Economic interdependence, the democratic state, and the liberal peace,” December 1, 2003.
  - Grieco, J. “op-ed piece on the Iraq and North Korean Crises.” Durham Herald Sun, 2003.
  - Grieco, J. “op-ed piece on the Afghanistan Crisis.” Raleigh News and Observer, 2003.
- Conference Papers
  - Grieco, J. M. “The schools of thought problem in international relations.” In International Studies Review, 21:424–46, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viy005.
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Education, Training, & Certifications

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In the News

Global Scholarship

Expertise

Teaching

Selected Grants

External Relationships

Selected Publications

Books

Academic Articles

Book Sections

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Conference Papers

Recent Courses

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