Positions

Selected Publications

Academic Article

Year Title Altmetric
2022 US Military Aid, Political Risk Insurance, and Foreign Direct Investment: Overcoming Obstacles to US Foreign Policy.  Journal of political & military sociology : JPMS.  49:87-119. 2022
2020 Confronting human trafficking: The role of state capacity.  Conflict Management and Peace Science.  37:471-489. 2020
2018 The Gendered Consequences of Financial Crises: A Cross-National Analysis.  Politics and Gender.  15:941-970. 2018
2017 Neoliberal Policies and Human Trafficking for Labor: Free Markets, Unfree Workers?.  Political Research Quarterly.  70:673-686. 2017
2016 Globalization and Collective Labor Rights 2016
2015 Financial crises and labor: Does tight money loosen labor rights?.  World Development.  76:1-12. 2015
2015 Is Foreign Direct Investment “Gender Blind”? Women's Rights as a Determinant of US FDI.  Feminist Economics.  21:61-88. 2015
2015 The Impact of IMF and World Bank Programs on Labor Rights.  Political Research Quarterly.  68:324-336. 2015
2012 Rights, Institutions, and Foreign Direct Investment: An Empirical Assessment.  Foreign Policy Analysis.  8:431-452. 2012
2012 Labor Rights and Foreign Direct Investment: Is There a Race to the Bottom? 2012
2009 A sectoral analysis of human rights and FDI: Does industry type matter?.  International Studies Quarterly.  53:469-493. 2009
2007 Human Rights and Trade: Beyond the “Spotlight” 2007
2007 Human rights and trade: Beyond the "spotlight" 2007
2007 What attracts foreign investors? An examination of human rights and foreign direct investment 2007
2006 Human rights and foreign direct investment: A two-stage analysis.  Business and Society.  45:464-485. 2006
2005 Foreign policy in transition? Human rights, democracy, and U.S. arms exports.  International Studies Quarterly.  49:647-668. 2005
2001 The role of arms transfers in the quest for human security.  Journal of political & military sociology : JPMS.  29:240-258. 2001
2001 Democracy, human rights, and U.S.‐Africa trade 2001
2000 Promoting human rights and democracy in the developing world: U.S. rhetoric versus U.S. arms exports.  American Journal of Political Science.  44:123-131. 2000
1999 Examining the impact of arms transfers on human development.  Journal of Third World Studies.  16:75-93. 1999
1999 Instruments of security or tools of repression? Arms imports and human rights conditions in developing countries 1999
1999 The transfer of arms and the diffusion of democracy: Do arms promote or undermine the "third wave"? 1999
1997 Guns and governmental reform: U.S. arms exports and the Clinton administration's promotion of democracy abroad.  Mediterranean Quarterly: a journal of global issues.  8. 1997
1996 Images in conflict: The case of Ronald Reagan and El Salvador.  International Studies Quarterly.  40:23-44. 1996
1994 Impact of human rights on u.s. foreign assistance to latin america 1994

Book

Year Title Altmetric
2020 World Politics Trends and Transformation 2020
2016 World Politics: Trend and Transformation, 2016 - 2017 2016
2014 World Politics: Trend and Transformation, 2014 - 2015 (Book Only) 2014
2013 World Politics: Trend and Transformation, 2013 - 2014 Update Edition 2013
2009 World Politics: Trends and Transformations, 2009-2010 Update Edition 2009

Chapter

Year Title Altmetric
2020 Global Economic and Political Causes of Human Trafficking 2020
2012 Human rights.  406-419. 2012
2009 Virtuous or Vicious Cycle? Human Rights, Trade, and Development.  89-103. 2009
The Global Economic and Political Causes of Human Trafficking

Education And Training

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina System : Spartanburg 1996
  • Master of Arts, University of Georgia 1991
  • Bachelor of Arts, Georgia College 1989

    • Full Name

  • Shannon Blanton