Rosella Cappella Zielinski
Rosella Cappella Zielinski
Department of Political Science, Boston University
232 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Boston University
Assistant Professor of Political Science July 2013-present
Co-Director: Project on Political Economy of Security October 2014-present
Faculty Advisor: Boston University International Affairs Association March 2015-present
Dartmouth College
Post Doctoral Fellow, Dickey Center for International Understanding 2012-2013
EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., Political Science June 2012
M.A., Political Science May 2008
University of Southern California June 2006
B.A., International Relations (Honors)
B.A., Economics (Honors)
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
Basin Harbor Teachers’ Workshop, Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, Basin Harbor, VT June 2013
Public Policy and Nuclear Threats Summer Boot Camp, San Diego, CA August 2012
Summer Workshop on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy, Ithaca, NY July 2010
Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, Syracuse, NYJune 2010
Publications - Books
How to Pay for War.2016. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Publications - Other
Self-Interest, Partisanship, and the Conditional Influence of War Taxation on Support for War in the United States(with Douglass Kriner and Breanna Lechase).2015. Conflict Management and Peace Science.76: 521-534.
Cappella Zielinski, Rosella. “Political Economy of National Security.” In Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations. Ed. Patrick James. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
WORKING PAPERS
War Finance and Military Effectiveness (prepared for The Sword’s Other Edge: Tradeoffs in the Pursuit of Military Effectivenessed. Dan Reiter), under review.
What Goes Up, Must Come Down? The Asymmetric Effects of International Threat and Economic Growth on Military Spending(with Benjamin Fordham and Kaija Schilde), under review.
Sovereign-to-Sovereign War Loans(with Paul Poast), under review.
Targeted or Across-the-Board? US Military Spending Cuts, 1950-2014(with Kaija Schilde)
Allied in Combat: Alliance Organization and Battlefield Performance (with Ryan Grauer)
Privileging Procurement?: Understanding Procurement Trends in US Military Spending from 1950 to Today(with Benjamin Fordham and Kaija Schilde)
The Political Economy of Security in a Globalized and Austere World, JoGSS Forum Proposal (ed. with Kaija Schilde and Norrin Ripsman)
A Wartime Economy in a Globalized World
DATA SETS
Confronting the Cost of War Project: 1823-2003.
Measures war finance for interstate wars longer than six months from 1823 to 2003
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS, AND INVITED TALKS
What Goes Up, Must Come Down? The Asymmetric Effects of International Threat and Economic Growth on Military Spending(with Benjamin Fordham and Kaija Schilde)
Presented at ISSS-ISAC Joint Annual Conference, Springfield, MA, October 2015.
War Finance and Military Effectiveness
Presented at CeRPIC Kessler Foundation workshop on Military Effectiveness in Trento, Italy, June 2015
The Political Economy of Security: A New Research Agenda of Military Power, War, and Peace in an Era of Austerity (co-organized with Norrin Ripsman and Kaija Schilde)
Workshop held at the Annual International Studies Association Conference, New Orleans, LA, February 2015.
Financial Intervention in Conflict (with Paul Poast)
Presented at the Annual International Studies Association Conference, New Orleans, LA, February 2015.
Presented at the Annual Peace Science Conference, Philadelphia PA, September 2014.
A Framework of Military Spending Cuts: The US Experience from 1950-2014 (with Kaija Schilde)
Presented at the Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College, October 2015
Presented at the Annual International Studies Association Conference, New Orleans, LA, February 2015.
Presented at resented at the Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, March 2014.
Economic Coercion and Power Redistribution During Wartime
Presented at the Economic History Workshop at Rutgers University November 2013.
Paper, presented at the Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 2013.
Paper, Confronting the Cost of War Conference, Cornell University, April 2013.
Financing the Korean War: How the Fear of Inflation and Support for the War Created an Anomaly in United States’ History
Paper presented at the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism, Philadelphia, PA, April 2012.
The Political and Economic Determinants of War Finance
Revised versionpresented at the International Political Economy Society, Madison, WI, November 2011.
Paper, Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 2010.
Creating the Infrastructure of the American War Finance System, 1860 – 1953 (with Meredith Wooten).
Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, September 2011.
Delayed Sacrifice: Foreign Borrowing and Executive Dominance in US War Finance (with Meredith Wooten).
Paper, Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, March 2011.
BOOK REVIEWS
Paul A.C. Koistinen, State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, Fall 2013 Political Science Quarterly
OP-EDS
Reserve Currency and Military Power: Lessons from the Sterling Era and the Future of America’s Military Might (2014) -
Choosing the Price: How Leaders Pay for War (2014) -
Strong Dollar, Strong Defense (2013) -
RESERACH GRANTS
ISA Venture Grant (with Kaija Schilde and Norrin Ripsman) 2014
Boston University Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Course Innovation Grant 2014
Boston University Center for Law, Finance, and Policy 2013
Earhart Foundation Grant 2012
Harry S. Truman Presidential Library Grant 2011
Browne Center Research Grant, University of Pennsylvania 2011
Fontaine Summer Research Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania 2011 and 2007
TEACHING
Courses Taught – Undergraduate
Introduction to International Relations
Nuclear Security
The Causes of War and Peace
Concepts in International Relations
War and Society in the Modern Age
Courses Taught – Graduate
The Political Economy of National Security
Money, Guns and Power
International Relations Graduate Seminar
REVIEWER
American Political Science Review
British Journal of Political Science
Conflict Management and Peace Science
International Studies Quarterly
Journal of Conflict Resolution
Review of International Political Economy
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