Christina Davis is an Assistant Professor with theDepartment of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Her research focuses on the study of international organization and trade negotiations. She is especially interested in the politics of Japan and the EU. Her book, Food Fights Over Free Trade: How International Institutions Promote Agricultural Trade Liberalization, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press. In a study of U.S. agricultural trade negotiations with Japan and Europe, the book explains how the institutional context of international negotiations alters the balance of interests at the domestic level to favor trade liberalization despite opposition from powerful farm groups.

Publications on the process of international economic negotiation:

Davis, Christina. Winter 2009. Linkages in Economic and Security Bargaining: Evidence from the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902-23. International Security, 33(3): 143-182.

Davis, Christina. 2006. Do WTO Rules Create a Level Playing Field? Lessons from the Experience of Peru and Vietnam. In Negotiating Trade: Developing Countries in the WTO and NAFTA, edited by John Odell. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Davis, Christina. 2003. Food Fights Over Free Trade: How International Institutions Promote Agricultural Trade Liberalization. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Davis, Christina. 2002. How International Institutions and Issue Linkage Promote Liberalization: Evidence from Agricultural Trade Negotiations. Paper presented at APSA, Boston MA.

Contact Information:
Department of Politics
Woodrow Wilson School
324 Bendheim Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: (609) 258-0177
Fax: (609) 258-5349
Email: cldavis@princeton.edu
Web: http://www.princeton.edu/~cldavis/