Princeton Department of Politics

PrincetonUniversity

Department of Politics

SELECTED INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SCHOLARS

AT PRINCETON

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FACULTY IN THE

POLITICS DEPARTMENT

Gary Bass
Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs

Bass’s research interests include international security, ethics in international relations, American foreign policy, war crimes tribunals, and human rights. He is the author of Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals, as well as articles and book chapters on international justice. He is completing a book manuscript on the politics of humanitarian intervention and the origins of the modern human rights movement. He has won the Stanley Kelley teaching prize in the Politics Department, and has held fellowships from the CarrCenter for Human Rights Policy at Harvard, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Krupp Foundation. Before coming to Princeton, he was a reporter for The Economist. He has also written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and other publications. Ph.D., Harvard.

Thomas J. Christensen

Professor of Politics

Christensen researches international relations, international security policy, Chinese foreign policy and the international relations of East Asia. He is author of Useful Adversaries: Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization and Sino-American Relations, 1947-1958, as well as a number of important articles on alliance politics, grand strategy, and Chinese foreign policy. He participates widely in policy discussions. He has served as research director for the National Bureau of Asian Research and in 2002 he received a distinguished service award from the Department of State. He is currently serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia Affairs with responsibility for China, Taiwan and Mongolia. Until 2003, he taught at MIT. PhD. Columbia.

Christina L. Davis

Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs

Davis specializes in international political economy and Japanese politics. Her teaching and research interests include international relations, international political economy, the politics of Japan and the EU, and the study of international organizations. She is author of Food Fights Over Free Trade: How International Institutions Promote Agricultural Trade Liberalization (2003). She is a recipient of fellowships from the Harvard University Program on U.S.-Japan Relations and the MacArthur Foundation, and she was a Fulbright scholar in Japan. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is an associated faculty member of the East Asian Studies Department. PhD, Harvard

Aaron L. Friedberg
Professor of Politics

Friedberg’s areas of interest include international security studies and U.S. foreign and defense policies, with particular focus on East Asia, problems of national ascendancy and decline,and the political economy of national security. He is the author of two books, The Weary Titan: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895–1905 (which received the Edgar Furniss National Security Book Award), and In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America’s Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy. Friedberg has been a fellow at the Smithsonian Institution’s WoodrowWilsonInternationalCenter for Scholars, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and HarvardUniversity’s Center for International Affairs, and has served as a consultant to several agencies of the U.S. government. In 2001-2002 he was the first holder of the Henry Alfred Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress. In 2003-2005, he has served on the staff of Vice President Richard Cheney. Ph.D. Harvard.

Joanne Gowa
Professor of Politics
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Joanne Gowa’s interests include international relations, international political economy, and the relationship between democracies and international disputes. She is the author of Closing the Gold Window: Domestic Politics and the End of Bretton Woods; Allies, Adversaries, and International Tradeand Ballots and Bullets: The Elusive Democratic Peace, as well as numerous articles on political economy, trade and monetary policy, and democracy and disputes. She is a member of the editorial boards of World Politics and International Organization and is a trustee of TuftsUniversity. She has been a recipient of grants from the MacArthur Foundation and the National Science Foundation. PhD, Princeton.

Emilie Hafner-Burton

Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs

Hafner-Burtonwrites and teaches on international organization, international political economy, the global governance of gender, social network analysis, design and selection of international regimes, international human rights law and policy, war and economic sanctions, non-proliferation policy, and quantitative and qualitative research design. Her dissertation, Globalizing Human Rights? How Preferential Trade Agreements Shape Government Repression,1972-2000, won the American Political Science Association Helen Dwight Reid Award for Best Dissertation in International Relations, Law and Politics for 2004-2005, as well as the Best Dissertation in Human RightsPrize for 2003-2004. Her articles are published or forthcoming in International Organization, American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Feminist Legal Studies, EuropeanJournal of International Relations, Journal of European Public Policy, and Journal of Peace Research. joined the Princeton faculty in 2005 from Oxfordand StanfordUniversity, where she was Postdoctoral Research Prize Fellow, NuffieldCollege, and Senior Associate, Global Economic Governance Programme, and an Associated Fellow of the StanfordUniversityCenter on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. PhD. Wisconsin.

G. John Ikenberry
Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politicsand International Affairs

Ikenberry’s areas of specialization includeinternational relations; American foreign policy; postwar settlements; international organizations; American foreign policy; international political economy; relations among the advanced industrial societies; theories of the state. Ikenberry is currently writing a book about the politics of international rules and institutions in the era of American unipolarity. He is author of After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (2001), which won the APSA 2003 Jervis-Schroeder award for the best book in International Politics and History, as well as Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government (1988). He is the co-author of State Power and the World Economy (2002) and The State (1989). He is co-editor of and contributor to The State and American Foreign Economic Policy (1988). He co-edited New Thinking in International Relations (1997), U.S. Democracy Promotion: Impulses, Strategies, and Impacts (2000),and International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific (2003). He has recently edited a book entitled American Unrivaled: The Future of the Balance of Power (2002). He has published in all the major academic journals of international relations and written widely in policy journals. He is also the reviewer of books on political and legal affairs for Foreign Affairs. Among many activities, Ikenberry has served as a member of an advisory group at the State Department, chaired a study group on "Democracy and Discontent" at the Council on Foreign Relations, served as a senior staff member on the 1992 Carnegie Commission on the Reorganization of Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy (the "Holbrooke Commission"). He co-authored a policy report entitled Atlantic Frontiers: A New Agenda for U.S.-EC Relations, (1993). He joined the Princeton faculty from GeorgetownUniversity in 2004. Ph.D., Chicago.

Robert O. Keohane

Professor of International Affairs

Keohane is the author of After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (1984), for which he was awarded the second annual Grawemeyer Award in 1989 for Ideas Improving World Order, Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World (2002), International Institutions and State Power: Essays in International Relations Theory (1989); co-author (with Joseph S. Nye, Jr.) of Power and Interdependence: World Politics in Transition (1977/2005), and (with Gary King and Sidney Verba) of Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research (1994). He is editor or co-editor of, and contributor to, eleven other books—most recently, Humanitarian Intervention (2003, with J.L. Holzgrefe). He has been president of both the International Studies Association (1988-89) and the American Political Science Association (1999-2000), and he was editor of the journal International Organization (1974-1980).He is a fellow of the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences, and has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the NationalHumanitiesCenter. In 2005 he was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize for Political Science. Keohane teaches at Princeton and is involved in the effort to foster cooperation between with NYULawSchool. He has taught at SwarthmoreCollege, Stanford, Brandeis and HarvardUniversities, and joined the Princeton faculty from DukeUniversity in 2005. He PhD. Harvard.

Jason Lyall
Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs

Lyall’sareas of research and teaching includeinternational security, the

origins of interstate conflict, the sources of grand strategy and military effectiveness, comparative democratization, and post-communist Russian politics and Russian foreign policy. He is particularly interested in the social construction of identities and ideas, as well as social network analysis. His dissertation, "Paths of Ruin: Why Revisionist States Arise and Die in World Politics," examines how collective identities shape, and often undermine, a state's grand strategy. Additional projects include a study of security dilemma dynamics in Central Asia, anti-Chechen War protest in post-communist Russia, and a collaborative study of ethnic separatism in post-communist Eurasia and Southeast Asia. He joined the department in 2004 from CornellUniversity. His PhD, Cornell.

Helen Milner
B. C. Forbes Professorof Politics and International Affairs

Director, Center for Globalization and Governance

Milner has written extensively on issues related to international trade, domestic politics and foreign policy, globalization and regionalism, and the relationship between democracy and trade policy. She authored Resisting Protectionism: Global Industries and the Politics of International Trade (1988) and Interests, Institutions and Information (1997), as well as dozens of scholarly articles. She is general editor of International Library of Writings on the New Global Economy, and co-edited Political Science: The State of the Discipline III (2002), Interests, Institutions and Information: Domestic Politics and International Relations (1997), The Political Economy of Economic Regionalism (1997), Internationalization and Domestic Politics (1996). She is currently working on the political economy of foreign aid, the global diffusion of the internet, the relationship between globalization and environmental policy, and related issues in the ethics of North-South relations.She also directs a joint research project on transatlantic relations with Prof. Michel Girard of the University of Paris, a joint colloquium and graduate training group on international political economy with HarvardUniversity’s Department of Government, and various research projects.In 2004, Milner joined the Princeton faculty from ColumbiaUniversity. PhD. Harvard.

Andrew Moravcsik
Professor of Politics

Moravcsikwrites on European integration, global human rights, negotiation analysis, international organization, international relations theory, US and West European foreign policy, transatlantic relations, and defense-industrial globalization. His analytical history of the European Union, The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht(1998), has been called “the most important work in the field.” (American Historical Review) He edited and contributed to Europe beyond Illusions (2005) and Between Centralization and Fragmentation (1998). He has published over 125 scholarly articles, chapters and reviews. Forthcoming books include a volume of essays, an analytical history of international human rights regimes, a study of the democratic legitimacy of international organizations, an analysis of the current state of European integration, and a reader on European politics. His policy commentary appears regularly in Newsweek and occasionally in other public affairs publications in 17 languages, including Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy. He is a Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution,and has served on various policy panels and commissions—most recently the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on the Future of Transatlantic Relations (the “Kissinger-Summers Task Force”). He has received awards from the Fulbright Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, the Krupp Foundation and other institutions. Before entering academia, he served as trade negotiator for the US government, special assistant to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea, and editor of a foreign policy journal in WashingtonDC. He holds a public policy degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He writes occasionally on opera history and performance. Moravcsik joined the Princeton faculty in 2004 from HarvardUniversity, where he taught for 12 years. PhD, Harvard.

Kristopher Ramsay
Assistant Professor of Politics

Ramsay’s areas of specialization include international relations, political economy, bargaining theory, and statistical methods.His current work examines bargaining in international politics, and its relationship to international organization. Ramsay has won awards from the National Science Foundation, Midwest Political Science Association, International Studies Association (Carl Beck Award for best paper, 2003), and the University of Rochester. He is author of “Politics at the Water's Edge: Crisis Bargaining and Electoral Competition" Journal of Conflict Resolution (2004). He joined the Princeton faculty in 2004 from the University of Rochester. PhD, Rochester.

Anne E. Sartori
Assistant Professor of Politics

Sartori’s specialties include international security, as well as applied game theory and statistics. Her research interests include international conflict and cooperation and the empirical testing of game-theoretic models. She is the author of a book manuscript, Deterrence by Diplomacy, as well as articles on international conflict and statistical methodology. She has held Fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation and the Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences. Sartori joined the Princeton faculty in 2001 from the University of Michigan. PhD, Michigan.

Jacob Shapiro

Assistant Professor of Politics

Shapiro’s research focuses on economic motivations and organizational challenges of terrorist organizations, using principal-agent analysis to understand how terrorist groups are constructed and how to combat them. He also specializes in the analysis of primary documentation relating to terrorist groups. His publications include co-authorship of Homeland Security: A New Strategic Paradigm? and Harmony and Disharmony: Exploiting al-Qa’ida’s Organizational Vulnerabilities, and a chapter in Terrorist Organizations’ Vulnerabilities and Inefficiencies: A Rational Choice Perspective. He has served as a fellow of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford. As a Naval Reserve Officer, to the Office of Naval Intelligence and the Naval Warfare Development Command. Shapiro will be joining the Princeton faculty in 2007-8 from StanfordUniversity. PhD., StanfordUniversity.

Anne-Marie Slaughter
Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs

Dean, WoodrowWilsonSchool of International and Public Affairs

Slaughter’s work lies at the juncture of political science and law, where she pioneered the current emphasis on cross-fertilization between international relations and international law. She has written over fifty scholarly articles and written or edited four books on subjects such as the effectiveness of international courts and tribunals, the legal dimensions of the war on terrorism, building global democracy, international law and international relations theory, and compliance with international rules. In her recent book, A New World Order, she identifies transnational networks of government officials as an important component of global governance. She also edited Legalization and World Politics (with Judith Goldstein, Miles Kahler, and Robert O. Keohane). Slaughter is former President of the American Society of International Law and serves on the boards of a number of organizations, including the McDonalds Corporation, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the New America Foundation. She contributes frequently to national and international news media, as well as a regular lecturer to academic audiences and civic groups. She co-chairs the Princeton Project on National Security, a multi-year research project aimed at developing a new, bipartisan national security strategy for the United States. Until 2003, Slaughter was the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign and Comparative Law and Director of International Legal Studies at HarvardLawSchool. She has also taught at the University of Chicago Law School. JD HarvardLawSchool, D.Phil (International Relations) Oxford.

SELECTED POLITICS DEPARTMENT FACULTY IN OTHER

SUB-DISCIPLINES RESEARCHING INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

Christopher H Achen
Professor of Politics

Chris Achen's research interest is Political Methodology, particularly in its application to empirical democratic theory, American Politics, and International Relations. He is the author of two books, Interpreting and Using Regression and The Statistical Analysis of Quasi-Experiments, and co-author of a third, Cross-Level Inference. His next two books, for which he is a co-editor and contributor, will be The European Union Decides, and Voter Turnout in Multi-Level Systems—both drawing on analyses of the European Union. He was the first president of the Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association, and is a member of the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences. He has received fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Science Foundation, and Princeton's Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. Achen joined the Princeton faculty in 2004 from Michigan, where he was recipient of an award for lifetime achievement in training graduate students.PhD, Yale.

Mark Beissinger

Professor of Politics