Education

Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2006 Academic Appointment Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Rice University, July 2009 - Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota, August 2005 - May 2009 Research Interests International Institutions International Conflict Formal Modeling Current research focuses on how international institutions influence state behavior using both game-theoretic modeling and empirical analysis. Awards and Fellowships W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 2012-2013. Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University, 2012-2013. Princeton Center for Globalization and Governance Fellowship, 2007-2008 Theories of International Political Economy and China Conference University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, Fall 2007 (declined) University of Minnesota Grant-in-Aid 2006-2008 W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy Fellowship, 2004 - 2005 EITM Best Poster Award, MPSA, 2004 (with Kristopher W. Ramsay) University of Rochester Fellowship, 2000 - 2004 Publications The Informational Role International Institutions and Domestic Politics American Journal of Political Science 52 (2) Pp. 304–321, 2008 Outside Options and Burden Sharing in Nonbinding Alliances (with Kristopher W. Ramsay) Political Research Quarterly 63 (2) Pp. 188–202, 2010 The Strategic Use of International Institutions in Dispute Settlement (Online Appendix) Quarterly Journal of Political Science 5(2) Pp. 107–131, 2010 International Institutions and Credible Commitment of Non-democracies (with Erica Owen) Review of International Organizations 6:141-162, 2011. International Organizations as Policy Advisors (with Randy Stone) International Organization 66(4) Pp.537-569 , 2012 To Concede or To Resist: The Restraining Effect of Military Alliances (with Johnson and Leeds) International Organization (Conditional Accept) Compromised Peacebuilding (Online Appendix) (with Michael Barnett and Christoph Zurcher) International Studies Quarterly (Conditional Accept) Under Review/Working Papers Institutional Opposition, Regime Accountability, and International Conflict (with Daina Chiba) Mixed Signals: Crisis Lending and Capital Markets (with Terry Chapman, Xin Li, and Randy Stone) New Alignments? The Geopolitics of Gas and Oil Cartels and the Changing Middle East (with Amy Jaffe and Ted Temz) Others Will of Minority: Rule of Four on United States Supreme Court (with Tim Johnson and Jason Roberts) Seminar Presentations 2010 University of Pittsburgh, Rice University Economics, University of Rochester, UC-Berkeley (EITM), University of Notre Dame 2008 Rice University, UC-Davis, Princeton University 2007 Princeton University, Rice University 2006 University of Wisconsin-Madison 2004 California Institute of Technology, UNC - Chapel Hill, Texas A&M -College Station, University of Minnesota Publications in Chinese Book Market Economy and Government Intervention. The Commercial Press (商务印书馆), Beijing China 1998 (Co-authored). Translation Modern Business Cycle Theory (Edited by Robert Barro, Harvard Press 1989). The Commercial Press (商务印书馆), Beijing China 1997. Association Memberships American Political Science Association , 2000 - Present Midwest Political Science Association , 2002 - Present International Studies Association , 2002 - Present Peace Science Society , 2003 - Present   http://www.princeton.edu/~pcglobal/conferences/beijing08/agenda.htmlAssistant_Professor_files/AJPS_version.pdfAssistant_Professor_files/Alliance.pdfAssistant_Professor_files/Fang%200501.pdfAssistant_Professor_files/bargaining_QJPS%204.0_add%20material.pdfAssistant_Professor_files/Nondemocracy.pdfAssistant_Professor_files/IOs%20as%20policy%20advisors.pdfAssistant_Professor_files/FangJohnsonLeeds.pdfAssistant_Professor_files/BarnettFangZuercher.pdfAssistant_Professor_files/Online%20Appendix.pdfAssistant_Professor_files/ChibaFang_IO%20opposition.pdfAssistant_Professor_files/Crisis%20Lending.pdfAssistant_Professor_files/Oil%20and%20Gas%20Dec%202012.pdfAssistant_Professor_files/conflict_9.5.pdfAssistant_Professor_files/rule4_fa07_fang.pdfhttp://www.cp.cn/scrp/bookdetail.cfm?iBookNo=4644&sYc=1-1http://books.google.com/books/about/%E7%8E%B0%E4%BB%A3%E7%BB%8F%E6%B5%8E%E5%91%A8%E6%9C%9F%E7%90%86%E8%AE%BA.html?id=0c1zAAAACAAJAssistant_Professor_files/Nondemocracy_1.pdfshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2shapeimage_1_link_3shapeimage_1_link_4shapeimage_1_link_5shapeimage_1_link_6shapeimage_1_link_7shapeimage_1_link_8shapeimage_1_link_9shapeimage_1_link_10shapeimage_1_link_11shapeimage_1_link_12shapeimage_1_link_13shapeimage_1_link_14shapeimage_1_link_15shapeimage_1_link_16