Ronald Mitchell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oregon and was a visiting associate professor with the Program on International Policy Studies and the Center for Environmental Science and Policy at Stanford University from 1999 through 2001. He has a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. His Intentional Oil Pollution at Sea: Environmental Policy and Treaty Compliance (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1994) received the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for 1995 from the International Studies Association for the best book on international environmental issues. He is currently working on a book manuscript on the strategies by which international institutions influence the behavior of states and nonstate actors, looking in particular at the relative effectiveness of different policy approaches and is editing a volume with William Clark, Frank Alcock, and David Cash on the conditions under which information produced by international environmental assessments influence international policy-making. He has published articles in International Organization, Journal of Theoretical Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and Journal of Environment and Development. He teaches courses on international relations theory, international environmental politics, and international regimes. He can be contacted at: Department of Political Science, University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284;

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Email: rmitchel@oregon.uoregon.edu
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