About

Terrence Chapman is a professor in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on international organizations, international conflict, international law, and international political economy. He specializes in formal modeling within these areas, contributing to the understanding of complex international relations and legal frameworks. His academic work aims to analyze and interpret the dynamics of global political and economic interactions through rigorous theoretical approaches.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Law
• Computer Science
• Mathematics
• Business
• Economics
• Biology
• Finance
• Advertising
• Political economy
• International economics
• World Wide Web
• Public relations
• Psychology
• International trade
• Criminology
• Macroeconomics

Selected publications

• America and international institutions in the twenty-first century

  Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2026-04-16

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• Can “Soft” Advice from International Organizations Catalyze Natural Resource Sector Reform?

  International Studies Quarterly · 2024-03-14 · 7 citations

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  Abstract Can international organizations improve natural resource governance? The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is most noted for its role in crisis lending, where it can wield the “teeth” of loan suspensions to push for reforms. But IMF officials also spend a large amount of time conducting routine surveillance through Article IV consultations, which assess a country’s economic developments and provide non-binding recommendations. Do governments follow this “toothless” advice? To answer this question, we examine the content of all Article IV staff appraisals published between 2004 and 2019. Using text analysis and a difference-in-differences estimator, we find that resource-rich developing countries are more likely to adopt legislation reforming the oil, gas, and mining sectors in the wake of an Article IV appraisal that extensively discusses the natural resource sector and recommends natural resource governance reforms. Our results suggest that technocratic advice—a tool often overlooked in international organization scholarship—can lead to the adoption of policies that help ameliorate the resource curse.

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• Can IOs influence attitudes about regulating “Big Tech”?

  The Review of International Organizations · 2023 · 8 citations

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  • Political Science
  • Political Science
  • Public relations
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• The United Nations After 75: Assessing Current Understandings, Charting Fruitful Research Agendas

  International Peacekeeping · 2022-07-29 · 3 citations

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  From its capacity for deploying joint operations in conflict zones to its status as a standard-bearing forum for international behaviour, the United Nations has asserted its relevance in a diverse array of issues and conflicts around the world. Equally as diverse has been the scholarship surrounding the United Nations over the past several decades. This collection of essays provides a snapshot of these diverse lines of scholarship, highlighting existing scholarship on a range of topics, as well as identifying areas of opportunity for future scholarly work on these topics. Taken as a whole, this forum more broadly provides insight into core pillars of the United Nations' mission--including the maintenance of peace and security; fostering friendly relations between nations; promoting human rights and humanitarian goals; and encouraging cooperation and harmonization of interests between nations. Moving forward, it is our hope that this collection will serve as a springboard for inspiring future work to both build and expand upon the insights from the past several decades of scholarship on the United Nations.

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• 2020 Fiscal Year Contributors

  Political Science Today · 2021

  • Computer Science
  • Computer Science
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• “Leakage” in International Regulatory Regimes: Did the OECD Anti-bribery Convention Increase Bribery?

  Quarterly Journal of Political Science · 2021 · 17 citations

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  • Political Science
  • Political Science
  • International trade

  When do well-intended regulatory regimes have unintended consequences? We examine one obstacle to successful regulation, “regulatory leakage,” in the context of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention (ABC). Leakage occurs when regulated behavior decreases for actors under a regime’s jurisdiction, but increases among those outside of it. We analyze a formal model that demonstrates how the ABC may simultaneously reduce bribery among firms from member countries, while increasing bribery by firms from non-ABC member countries. We also show how the ABC may lead firms from ABC member countries to shift to bribery through intermediaries. New empirical evidence of MNC activity in Vietnam shows evidence of both regulatory leakage and bribery through intermediaries.

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• Public Reactions to International Legal Institutions: The International Criminal Court in a Developing Democracy

  The Journal of Politics · 2020 · 49 citations

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  • Political Science
  • Political Science
  • Law

  We examine public attitudes concerning a possible investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC). We hypothesize that citizens tend to display lower levels of support for investigations in their own country than hypothetical ones abroad. We further argue that this decrease in support is moderated by a citizen’s “proximity” to the investigation. Both perpetrators and victims of alleged crimes can be hesitant about legal interventions, with the former fearing prosecution and the latter fearing the loss of a fragile peace. We use a survey experiment about the ICC in Kyrgyzstan that randomly assigned respondents to a control group, asked about foreign investigations, and a treatment group, asked about an investigation into recent local violence. Treatment lowered otherwise relatively high approval for investigations. This effect was strongest in regions most proximate to the violence, especially among coethnics of victims. Our findings help explain why support for international law can vary widely across subnational constituencies.

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• 5. International Organizations and Coalition Building

  2019-12-31

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  Harvard Dataverse · 2019-01-01

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• Replication Data for: "Public Reactions to International Legal Institutions: The ICC in a Developing Democracy"

  Harvard Dataverse · 2019-04-03

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  These are the replication data and scripts for "Public Reactions to International Legal Institutions: The ICC in a Developing Democracy".

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Frequent coauthors

• Stephen Chaudoin

  Harvard University

  12 shared

• Patrick J. McDonald

  University of Manitoba

  3 shared

• Scott Wolford

  3 shared

• Songying Fang

  Rice University

  2 shared

• Randall W. Stone

  University of Rochester

  2 shared

• Scott Moser

  2 shared

• Xin Li

  2 shared

• Lynne Flickinger

  Carnegie Corporation of New York

  1 shared

Labs

• The Texas Politics ProjectPI

  The Texas Politics Project conducts regular, non-partisan, statewide polls of registered voters in Texas, and makes the results and data available for public use.

Education

• Ph.D., Political Science

  Emory University

  2007