PRINCETON - Key Persons
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- Faculty Associate
- Professor of Politics and International Affairs Department of Politics and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Abigail Vaughn received her Ph.D. from U.C. San Diego in 2019. Her research interests lie at the intersection of international and comparative political economy, with a particular focus on financial governance. In her dissertation, she demonstrates that central banks leverage the political ties of their home countries to induce cooperative behavior from currency swap recipients. By pairing a formal model with a new dataset that includes all swaps offered by major reserve-currency countries, she compares how the world's largest economies-the U.S., China, and Japan-contribute to global financial stability and manage financial risks. She previously published on the United States' use of conditional assistance to influence recipient states, while her current work examines how countries select among different methods for acquiring temporary liquidity, including reserve stockpiling, swap agreements, regional reserve pools, or IMF loans.
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- Assistant Professor in Political Science at University of Utah
Adam Leudtke, an Assistant Professor in political science at University of Utah, received his Ph.D. from University of Washington in 2006, where his dissertation committee was chaired by Jim Caporaso. Luedtke's research is on immigration, globalization and international organizations. He is co-author (with Lina Svedin) of the forthcoming book, Controlling Chaos: Risk Regulation in the European Union and the United States (Palgrave), and is editor of the forthcoming book, Migrants and Minorities: the European Response (Cambridge Scholars Press). He has also published articles in the following peer-reviewed journals: Governance, European Union Politics, Policy Studies Journal, International Migration, Comparative European Politics, and the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis.
Akachi Odoemene is a Social Historian trained at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria from where he obtained a Ph.D. in African History in 2008. He has interest in scholarly African issues related to the field of Social History, especially in the areas of Peace and Conflict Studies, Ethnic Studies, Development and Gender Studies, as well as global land governance and political economy in Africa. Dr. Odoemene is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and International Relations, Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.
Alberto Simpser will receive a PhD in Political Science and an MA in Economics from Stanford University this summer. His research focuses on the institutional foundations of socioeconomic development. Recently, he has studied corrupt elections and their consequences for democratic accountability, governance and development. While at the Center for Globalization and Governance, Alberto plans to develop the international dimension of his research on electoral corruption. He will explore the impact of international pressures such as those relating to aid, trade, and electoral observation on the quality of elections in developing democracies, focusing on recipients' incentives to engage in corrupt electoral practices.
Alexander F. Gazmararian is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. In the 2023-24 academic year, he will be a Prize Fellow in the Social Sciences. His research agenda examines the politics of economic disruption and climate change, with a focus on how the public's preferences on these issues form, change, and affect political behavior.
His first book, Uncertain Futures: How to Unlock the Climate Impasse, with Dustin Tingley is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press (The Politics of Climate Change Series).
Alexei Abrahams researches conflict in the Middle East from a mixed perspective of economics and political science. His work applies economic and game theory, econometric techniques, machine learning, natural language parsing, satellite imagery and internet data to analyze conflict between state and non-state actors and the economic consequences of their actions. While his past work has focused on violence in the Israel-Palestine Conflict, Alexei's ongoing projects address non-violent tactics, including cyber/informational attacks, and are relevant to the broader MENA region, including the Gulf. Alexei holds a PhD in Economics from Brown University and is an affiliate of Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC). He was previously a research fellow at the Middle East Initiative of Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center and the University of California at San Diego's Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation
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- Assistant Professor of Economics at Georgetown University School of Foreign
Alexis Antoniades is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, where he teaches courses in International Finance, Macroeconomics, and Money and Banking. Funded by a large three-year research grant by Qatar National Research Fund, Dr. Antoniades has undertaken the first micro-study on the economies of the Gulf countries, which is based on a massive set of scanner-level price data. The main objectives of his work are to raise the research profile of Qatar, and raise our understanding of how the economics of the Gulf countries work. A Fulbright/CASP Scholar, Dr. Antoniades holds a BA in Mathematics (concentration in Finance), a BA in Economics (Honors) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an M.A., an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in New York. Between 2001 and 2002 he served as an Assistant Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Allison Carnegie is a PhD candidate, pursuing a joint degree in Political Science and Economics at Yale University. She holds an M.Phil. in Economics from Yale University. She will be joining the faculty at the University of Chicago as an assistant professor of political science in July 2014. Her research interests include international relations, political economy, quantitative methods, and formal theory. Her book project identifies a central barrier to international cooperation, "political hold up problems," and demonstrates that international institutions can help to solve them. This observation allows her to generate new insights into several enduring puzzles in international relations including what types of cooperation problems international institutions are best suited to solve and who benefits most from participation. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, the Election Law Journal, and Political Analysis.
Alwyn Lim is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern California with research interests in globalization, organizations, and institutions. His research examines the moral regulation of the global economy, in which global actors attempt to shape the institutions that govern macro society-economy relationships. Currently, his research examines the convergence of state and non-state actors around the global corporate responsibility movement. He is also developing further research on globalization and early nation-state formation that examines international agreements and treaties in late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work has appeared in the American Sociological Review and the Annual Review of Law and Social Science. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2012.
Weiyi Shi is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of California, San Diego. Her research is at the intersection of international political economy and the comparative politics of authoritarian regimes. She is soon to defend a dissertation on the political economy of China's outward direct investment, where she investigates how the delegation of state objectives to firms influences the behavior of Chinese investors and China's foreign policy. Her ongoing collaboration with Tsinghua University and China Council for the Promotion of International Trade produces an annual firm-level survey that assesses key indicators of Chinese firms' internationalization and business environments in China and abroad (this effort is also joint with Boliang Zhu, an NCGG alum). After completing the fellowship at the Niehaus Center, Weiyi will begin at UCSD IR/PS as an assistant professor.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Research Associate at the Chair of International and Development
Andreas Fuchs is a research associate at the Chair of International and Development Politics at Heidelberg University. Under supervision of Professor Axel Dreher, he is writing his Ph.D. thesis on political determinants of foreign aid and international trade of emerging economies. His research focuses on the determinants of aid allocation decisions taken by emerging donors, notably China and India, and on the role of diplomatic tensions regarding trade ties with China. Andreas holds a Master's degree from Goethe University Frankfurt as well as from Dauphine University Paris and has worked as a trainee and consultant for the OECD.
Andreea S. Mihalache expects to receive her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Pennsylvania State University in the summer of 2009. Her research agenda centers on the interactions between politics and foreign direct investment (FDI) and is motivated by a broader concern with the impact of globalization on human welfare and political development. In her dissertation she examines the relationship between FDI and political violence, showing that investors across industries differ systematically in both reactions to and impacts on conflict. During her tenure of the NCGG fellowship, Andreea will explore U.S. multinationals' use of political tools to alleviate risks from conflict, asking how firm characteristics and the socio-political environment interact to determine firms' inclusion of political and social initiatives in their risk management portfolios. The project relies on cross-disciplinary insights and combines large-N analyses of industry-level FDI inflows with survey responses and investors' answers in open-ended interviews.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor
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- Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University
Andrey Tomashevskiy is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis and his M.A. from New York University. His research investigates the politics of foreign direct investment, political finance, and corruption. Andrey's recent work examines bribery by multinational firms and the political economy of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). He is also interested in social science applications of statistical, machine learning and network analysis methods. His research has appeared in International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Politics and Comparative Political Studies.
Anna Meyerrose's research focuses on the ways in which aspects of the international environment both condition and also create challenges for domestic democratic institutions, with a particular emphasis on parties. Her dissertation finds that international organizations have unintentionally made democratic backsliding more likely in new democracies by simultaneously increasing executive power and limiting states' domestic policy options, which stunts institutional development. Her current book project builds on this work to explore how other aspects of globalization contribute to democratic backsliding by further shifting policy-making decisions away from elected officials and toward unaccountable bureaucrats and technocrats. A related ongoing project explores the extent to which trade shocks drive elite-level polarization and populism in mature democracies. Anna holds a PhD in Political Science from the Ohio State University, and her work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Governance, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics.
Anna Meyerrose received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Ohio State University in 2019. Her research interests lie at the intersection of international relations and comparative politics, with a particular focus on the ways in which international organizations and other external actors both condition and also create challenges for domestic democratic institutions. Her current book project builds on her dissertation, which combines large-n analysis and an in-depth case study of the European Union to show that international organizations have unintentionally made democratic backsliding more likely in new democracies. This project finds evidence that these organizations contribute to backsliding by simultaneously neglecting to support important democratic institutions other than elections and elites, increasing relative executive power, and limiting domestic policy options via membership requirements.
Jeheung (Jay) Ryu is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Rochester. He holds M.P.P. in Public Policy and B.A.in International Relations and Economics from Seoul National University. His research interests include international political economy and quantitative methodology, and combines substantive topics in international trade politics, foreign direct investment, and economic sanctions with statistical methods, including Bayesian inference, text mining, and causal inference. In his dissertation, he explores how domestic actors influence the level of trade liberalization and who controls international trade regimes at the multilateral and bilateral/regional levels. His recent work has appeared in The Review of International Organizations.
Anne Jamison is finishing a joint Ph.D. in the Department of Political Science and the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests lie at the intersection of international political economy and management, with a special focus on the politics of foreign direct investment and political risk management. Anne's dissertation examines the consequences of political violence for firms investing in the developing world. She earned her MA in political science at UW-Madison and her BSFS from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. She also has two years of experience working in international development.
Arang Keshavarzian has been an assistant professor in the Department of Government at Connecticut College; he will move to NYU after his fellowship year. And he completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University in the fall 2003. Keshavarzian's research and teaching focuses on comparative politics, political economy of development, and Middle East politics, with a focus on Iran. He has published journal articles and book chapters on such topics as authoritarianism, clergy-state relations, and the Tehran Bazaar. His current research interests revolve around the political economy of free trade zones in the Persian Gulf, in particular in Dubai and southern Iran. His research on the Persian Gulf examines the processes of imperialism and globalization from the perspective of local circuits of trade and regional strategic conditions. He has also begun researching the political logics and consequences of the establishment of free trade zones in the Persian Gulf, in particular in United Arab Emirates and Iran, over the last four decades.
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- Oxford - Princeton Global Leaders Fellow
Arunabha Ghosh is an Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow, currently at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He is currently working on the governance of the climate change regime, including technology development and transfer, linkages between the trade and climate regimes, global energy governance, and national-level governance arrangements. Arunabha has expertise on monitoring, surveillance and compliance systems in international regimes, particularly global trade and climate change. Arunabha was previously Policy Specialist at the United Nations Development Programme in New York and co-author of three Human Development Reports, and has worked at the World Trade Organization in Geneva. He has led research on transboundary water basins, intellectual property and the rights of indigenous people, violent conflict and extremist movements, and has undertaken/advised research projects on aid, financial crises and trade negotiations for DFID (UK), IDRC (Canada), and the Commonwealth Secretariat. His advocacy efforts for human development span a documentary on the water crisis set out of Africa, presentations to the President of India, the Indian Parliament and other legislatures, training of ministers in Central Asia, public lectures in Australia, Germany, Spain, Sweden and the United States, and regular articles in the print media. Arunabha is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities.
Arunabha has a D.Phil. and M.Phil. in International Relations from the University of Oxford as the Marvin Bower Scholar at Balliol College. As Radhakrishnan Scholar, he earned a First Class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford. Arunabha graduated with Honours in Economics at the top of his class from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi. He speaks Bengali, English, Hindi and basic Spanish.
Ato Kwamena Onoma is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern and holds a BA in Philosophy with a minor in English from the University of Ghana, Legon. He is interested in exploring why global processes such as the circulation of goods, people and ideas are articulated in different ways and produce different social, economic and political consequences in different societies. His dissertation examines why ruling elites in African countries undertook different institutional reforms to secure property rights in land as they sought to exploit opportunities for wealth and power accumulation provided by rising land values. While at the Center for Globalization and Governance, he will examine how different ways of using resources affect elites' preferences for different property rights regimes in various resources.
Austin Carson recently completed his doctorate in political science, specializing in international relations, from Ohio State University. His research analyzes the sources and consequences of information restrictions, or secrecy, in international politics. His dissertation looks at how states use secrecy to manipulate outside perceptions and control conflict escalation, specifically in the context of covert vs. overt external military interventions. He also researches information restrictions in international organizations, both the logic of their inclusion and their impact on governance outcomes. Austin has been a Predoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at George Washington University and holds an MA from Ohio State (with distinction) and BA from Michigan State (with honors). He previously worked for the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. as a research analyst in weapons of mass destruction non-proliferation from 2002-2005.
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- Fellow in the Politics Department at the University of Virginia
Steven Liao is a Ph.D. Candidate and a Bankard Predoctoral Fellow in the Politics Department at the University of Virginia. His research interests lie at the intersection of International Political Economy and Quantitative Methodology, with a specific focus on migration. His dissertation leverages big data from government sources and different statistical methods for causal inference to understand the influence of states and politics on temporary labor market-driven migration. Aside from the dissertation, he is collaborating on a variety of projects that span Chinese Renminbi internationalization, the political economy of international child adoption, and international trade. Some of this collaborative work is forthcoming in International Studies Quarterly.
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- Associate Professor at the University of California, San Diego
Barbara Walter is an Associate Professor at the University of California, San Diego. Barbara received her PhD from the University of Chicago. She is an authority on international security, with an emphasis on internal wars, conflict termination, and bargaining and cooperation. Her current research and teaching interests include civil wars, bargaining failures, self-determination movements and state building in the aftermath of war. Her publications include: Globalization, Territoriality, and Conflict (co-edited with Miles Kahler) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005); Committing to Peace: The Successful Settlement of Civil Wars (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001); "Sabotaging the Peace: The Politics of Extremist Violence," with Andrew Kydd, International Organization, Spring 2002; "The Critical Barrier to Civil War Settlement," International Organization, Summer 1997; "Designing Transitions from Violent Civil War" International Security, Summer 1999; and Civil Wars, Insecurity and Intervention (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999) co-edited with Jack Snyder. She is currently working on a book manuscript on self-determination conflicts, and one on strategies of extremist violence. Walter is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including awards from the National Science Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Guggenheim, and Smith Richardson Foundations.
Basak Kus received her PhD in Sociology from University of California-Berkeley in 2008. In the 2008-2009 Academic Year she was a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer at Yale University's MacMillan Center for International Studies.
Basak's main research interests are in the fields of economic sociology, political sociology, and comparative-institutional analysis. In her dissertation she examined how states affect the patterns of informalization in the economy through regulatory means, quantitatively, across a broad set of countries, as well as historically with an in-depth study of a developing country case that of Turkey. Basak has completed several articles from this research. She is currently working on her book manuscript, and at the same developing a new research project that will explore the political and social outcomes of social welfare provision by non-state actors, particularly religious ones, in Turkey and the Middle East.
Ben Shepherd is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques ("Sciences Po") in Paris, France, and expects to complete his degree in the spring of 2008. His research focuses on the role of trade costs and institutional factors, such as market entry costs, in shaping developing country trade integration through the extensive margin channel (i.e., new product varieties and new markets). Trade Costs, Corruption, and Economic Integration, his current research proposal, builds on both his dissertation work and research he has conducted since mid-2006 as a consultant in the World Bank's Development Research Group. The core of the proposal is a theoretical and empirical analysis of the links between trade costs, corruption, and international trade flows from a development policy point of view.
T. Camber Warren currently completing his graduate study in the Department of Political Science at Duke University is expected to defend his dissertation and complete his Ph.D. by May 2008. His research interests have been motivated by a desire to uncover patterns in the relationship between technologies of mass communication and the construction of national allegiances. Camber has several projects which he will be moving forward into article length publications during his time at the Center. The first (A House United) will be based on the civil conflict chapter of his dissertation; second project (Modeling Interstate Alliances as Evolving Networks) offers both a theoretical claim and methodological solution; and final project entitled When Preferences and Commitments Collide will seek to more rigorously connect domestic political competition with the international dynamics of treaty compliance.
Biniam Bedasso is a political economist with diverse interests in the economics, politics and institutions of African countries. Biniam was a Robert S. McNamara fellow of the World Bank as well as a Young African Professionals fellow of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Ethiopian Development Research Institute. Biniam received a PhD in Public Policy from Maastricht University in 2013.
Bo Qu is from China. He gained his doctorate at Peking University in 2007 and plans to work on international monetary cooperation, focusing on the role of China.
Don Leonard completed a PhD in Government at Cornell University in August 2013. His research concerns the international and comparative political economy of developing countries. It focuses on the impact of international trade and finance on development outcomes, both in Latin America and across the global south. He is particularly interested in understanding how the interaction between global forces and domestic coalitions shapes political institutions and social welfare. His dissertation examines the political origins of institutional continuity and change, identifying conditions under which international economic shocks lead to the emergence of a developmental state. Another project looks at the mechanisms by which international trade in natural resources affects the stability of democracies by altering the distributive preferences of voters. Prior to beginning his doctoral work at Cornell he served as a US Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia between 2004 and 2006.
Boliang Zhu is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and Asian Studies Program at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in 2012. His research addresses the politics of globalization and economic development in developing countries. In particular, he works on three major topics: the political economy of FDI and MNCs, globalization and domestic governance, and public opinion on economic integration. While at the Niehaus Center, he will work on a book manuscript examining the skill composition of FDI in developing countries as well as papers on corruption and public opinion towards globalization.
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- Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science
Bumba Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and the Department of Economics and Econometrics, University of Notre Dame. He received his PhD from Columbia University. His current research interests include studying how political institutions affect monetary policy and financial markets, the politics of trade liberalization, the design of international trade agreements and statistical methodology, especially time series analysis and Quantal Response Equilibrium models. His publications include: "Government Partisanship, Elections and the Stock Market: Examining American and British Stock Returns, 1930-2000," with David Leblang, American Journal of Political Science, Fall 2005; "Government Formation in Parliamentary Democracies and Foreign Exchange Markets," with Will Moore, International Studies Quarterly, Spring 2006; "Presidential Elections and the Stock Market: Comparing Markov-Switching and Fractionally Integrated GARCH Models of Volatility," with David Leblang, Political Analysis and "Minority Governments and Exchange Rate Regimes," with David Leblang, European Union Politics, Winter 2006. He is currently completing a book manuscript titled Globalization, Coalition Politics and Trade Liberalization (Cambridge University Press), and working on a second book manuscript that examines the impact of domestic political institutions on the design of international trade agreements.
Caleb Ziolkowski is a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science Department at UCLA. He has research interests that lie in international political economy, focusing on the causes and consequences of foreign economic policy. His book project, building on his dissertation, rethinks trade and immigration policymaking, arguing that legislators' personal preferences and firms' interests interact to influence both legislators' roll call votes and firms' lobbying decisions. Other streams of research focus on the implications that legislators' personal preferences have for representation and electoral accountability. His future research agenda includes leveraging breakthroughs in natural language processing to measure the populist content of text, enabling a close examination of the relationship between international factors like immigration and trade and the rise of populism.
Calvin Thrall received his Ph.D.in Government from the University of Texas at Austin in 2022. His research focuses on the role of private firms as actors of interest in the international political economy, with particular interests in firms' engagement with international economic institutions, diplomacy, and public-private governance. His current book project seeks to explain the "bilateralization" of global economic governance over the late 20th and early 21st centuries, in which issues such as foreign direct investment and international taxation have come to be regulated by large bilateral treaty networks rather than multilateral agreements. Thrall argues that corporate demand for treaties, as well as firms' preference for exclusivity, has played an underappreciated role in the evolution and design of modern international institutions. His work has been published in International Organization, The Review of International Organizations, and Business and Politics. In Fall 2023, Thrall will join the Department of Political Science at Columbia University as Assistant Professor.
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- Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University
Cameron Ballard-Rosa is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University, and also holds an M.A. in Economics from Yale. His research interests include political economy, international relations, comparative politics, and formal theory. Cameron is currently working on a book project on the political logic of international sovereign debt default, with particular emphasis on the ways that urban-rural conflicts, including sensitive food subsidies, may vary across different regime settings. He uses formal theory, large-n statistical analysis, and close case study reading of several countries to present substantive and robust evidence for his primary hypotheses explaining sovereign default in autocracies and democracies. His broader research interests exist at the intersection of international and comparative political economy, and include political responses to fiscal crises as well as the effects of economic change on political institutions and redistribution.
Nikhar Gaikwad is a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science department at Yale University. He will be joining the Political Science department at Columbia University as an Assistant Professor in 2017. His research interests span international and comparative political economy, with a focus on the politics of economic policymaking, business-state relations, and identity. He has a regional specialization in South Asia, which he studies in comparative perspective with Brazil and other democratic settings. His research focuses on two types of competition that recur in the political arena: economic contestation and identity conflict. A main line of inquiry studies how cultural divisions offset economic rivalry when actors contest distributive policies. A second stream of research investigates how conflicts of interest between economic agents influence the policymaking process. He uses this interplay between competing interests as a theoretical lens to study questions related to political representation, policy change, and development. His research has been published or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, and the Quarterly Journal of Political Science.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Robert Garrett Professor of Politics and Public Affairs Department of Politics and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
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- Professor of Anthropology Department of Anthropology
Christian Baehr is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics, specializing in International Politics and Quantitative Methods. His research is focused on natural resource politics and institutional development, as well as GIS methods and satellite imagery-as-data. He received his A.B. in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis, and worked as an analyst at the AidData research lab at William & Mary before coming to Princeton.
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- Fellow of International Relations at the Department of Politics
Christina Schneider is a post-doctoral fellow of International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford and an external research fellow at the Max Plank Institute of Economics in Jena, Germany. Her main research interests are in the field of international and comparative political economy, methodology, and international institutions. Thus far, Christina's research on strategic budgeting has focused on the conditions under which German state governments may rely on deficit spending in the pre-election period. She aims to conduct a more general theoretical and empirical analysis of the relationship between domestic and international budgeteering and electoral outcomes in EU member states.
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- Faculty Associate
- Assistant Professor of Politics Department of Politics
Christopher Rudolph is an assistant professor of international politics at American University, Washington, DC. He received his PhD in political science from UCLA, and he has taught previously at Georgetown University, the University of Southern California, and UCLA. His research and teaching interests focus on issues of international relations theory, security, nationalism & ethnic conflict, international law, and international political economy (particularly elements associated with globalization). He is also an authority on issues of immigration and border control. His publications include: National Security and Immigration (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006); "International Migration and Homeland Security," in James J.F. Forest, ed., Homeland Security: Protecting America's Targets (New York: Praeger, 2006); "Sovereignty and Territorial Borders in a Global Age," International Studies Review 7:1 (Spring 2005); "Globalization and Security: Migration and Evolving Conceptions of Security in Scholarship and Statecraft," Security Studies 13:1 (Fall 2003); "Security and the Political Economy of International Migration," American Political Science Review 97:4 (November 2003); "Constructing an Atrocities Regime: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals," International Organization 55:3 (Summer 2001); and he edited a special issue of the UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs entitled, Reconsidering Immigration in an Integrating World (Fall/Winter 1998).
Claas Mertens received his Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Oxford. Before joining the Niehaus Center, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government. His research focuses on international economic conflicts, such as economic sanctions and weaponized interdependencies, and the international political economy of climate change. It also explores intersections between these two areas. His work has been published in International Studies Quarterly and The Review of International Organizations. He holds an MPhil in Politics from Oxford and a BA in Business from the University of St. Gallen, and he was a visiting student at Harvard. Before his Ph.D., he worked as a management consultant. Claas was Rowing World Champion in 2015 and represented Oxford in the 2018 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race. Now, he enjoys surfing, where his passion far exceeds his skills.
Colin Chia is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government at Cornell University. His research focuses on the contestation of international orders, the politics of sovereignty, and social hierarchies in international politics, particularly in the areas of international security and political economy. His dissertation project, "Hegemony, Hierarchy, and the Contestation of International Orders", examines clashes over social position and visions of international order in the post-Cold War period. It questions why international actors challenge or defend the legitimacy of existing international orders, and examines how political efforts by a variety of actors seeking to define their identities and place on the world stage affects the rules of the game in international politics. He holds a BA from the University of British Columbia and an MA in political science from McGill University.
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- Professor of International Relations at the University
Costantino Pischedda is professor of International Relations at the University of Miami. His research interests cover a broad range of topics at the intersection between International Relations, Security Studies and Comparative Politics: civil war dynamics, counterinsurgency, civilian victimization and terrorism, coercion theory, non-violent resistance, natural resources and conflict.
At Niehaus, he is working on a book project on inter-rebel war, explaining why and under what circumstances insurgent groups pitted against a common enemy (the government) often fight each other.
Cristina Bodea received an MA in Economics from the Central European University, Budapest and is the recipient of numerous fellowship awards. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Rochester. Her research emphasizes integrating the study of open economies with the constraints of domestic political institutions. Cristina's dissertation examines the politics of exchange rates and central banks in Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union. Her latest project studies budget deficits in transition economies focusing on the role of independent central banks and democratic governance.
Daniel J. Blake will receive his Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the Ohio State University in December 2010. His research focuses on the international political and legal regime governing foreign direct investment and the role of domestic politics in the formation of international institutions. In his dissertation, he develops a general theory of government preference formation over international institutional design that stresses the role of leaders' time horizons and uses it to explain a range of design differences in the legalization of international investment agreements. While at the Niehaus Center, Daniel will expand an original data set of investment treaty design features in order to examine whether more stringent treaty protections for foreign investors alter the composition of FDI flows.
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- Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University
Daniel Kono is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Davis. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research focuses on the effects of international and domestic institutions on trade policy. His publications include "Optimal Obfuscation: Democracy and Trade Policy Transparency," American Political Science Review, August 2006; "Making Anarchy Work: International Legal Institutions and Trade Cooperation," The Journal of Politics, August 2007; "When Do Trade Blocs Block Trade?," International Studies Quarterly, March 2007; and "Are Free Trade Areas Good for Multilateralism? Evidence from the European Free Trade Association," International Studies Quarterly, December 2002. He is currently working on a book manuscript on the relationship between democracy and trade.
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- Graduate Student, Department of Politics
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- Faculty Associate
- Senior Political Scientist Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
David Lindsey is a PhD candidate at the University of California, San Diego. His research centers on the causes of international conflict, with a particular emphasis on the role played by information. His dissertation focuses on the ways that concrete policy choices about diplomacy, intelligence, and military strategy shape the informational context in which states make choices about war and peace. Additional ongoing research examines the role of delegation within the executive branch on the conduct of foreign policy. His work has appeared in the Journal of Politics and International Studies Quarterly.
Dennis Quinn is the Powers Professor of International Business, at McDonough School of Business, and a Professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. He is also a Senior Associate Dean at McDonough. His research specialties include international political economy, international business, and international economics. Recent topics include the effects of trade exposure and exchange rate changes on election outcomes in the US and abroad. Financial globalization, its origins and consequences, is an ongoing interest.
Dima Noggo Sarbo joined the Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship program in 2009. He is currently a research scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. He spent a year at the Global Economic Governance Program, Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford in the UK. His main area of work is on the role of regional organizations in global governance with a specific research focus on the challenges of regional integration in Africa. His research interests include the institution of the state, governance, democratization, human rights, development, identity, nationalism, and social movements.
Dima Noggo Sarbo was born and raised in Ethiopia, and did primary and secondary education in Gore, in the South West of the country. He went to university in Addis Ababa and graduated with a B.A. in Political Science. He joined Ethiopian government service as a civil servant working in three ministries, Community Development and Social Affairs, Land Reform, and Agriculture, before going on to the United Nations Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) in Dakar, Senegal, from where he graduated with a Post Graduate Diploma in Economic Development and Planning in 1978. He briefly worked as a researcher with the United Nations Environment Training Programme (ENDA) and the Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA), both based in Senegal.
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- Professional Specialist for Data and Statistics
Elif Kalaycioglu will receive her PhD from the University of Minnesota in June 2019. Her research interests lie in world orders and global governance, with a focus on the possibilities of cooperation in a pluralizing world order. Her dissertation, "Possibilities of Global Governance: World Heritage and the Politics of Universal Value and Expertise"centers on the important but underexplored UNESCO world heritage regime to analyze the possibilities of governance in a key area of plurality in the world order, that is, culture. Kalaycioglu has a forthcoming book chapter "Governing Culture ‘Credibly:' Contestations of Expertise at the World Heritage Regime," in Cultural Diversity and International Order, edited by Christian Reus-Smit and Andrew Phillips. At the Niehaus Center, Kalaycioglu will work on turning her dissertation into a book manuscript to make an empirically informed theoretical contribution to the challenges of governance in a pluralizing world order. Moving forward, she will expand her research and analytical framework to other domains of governance, including environmental policy and humanitarianism. Kalaycioglu holds a B.A. in Political Science from Vassar College and an MSc in European Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Eric B. Arias is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University. Eric's research interests lie in international and comparative political economy, focusing on the international sources of domestic politics and political economy of development (with a regional specialization in Latin America). He combines experimental and observational methods at different levels of analysis to explore two lines of inquiry: (1) how international flows of capital affect development and political accountability, and (2) the role of information in those and other dynamics.
Erica Owen received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota in August 2010. Her current research focuses on the relationship between democratic politics and foreign direct investment (FDI). In her dissertation, she theorizes that although FDI tends to benefit economically skilled labor at the expense of unskilled labor in developed democracies, it is necessary to take into consideration which groups have the greatest potential to influence policy. Thus it is the combination of economic and political skills that leads to the presence of barriers to FDI in some industries and not others. She then examines how domestic political institutions affect this interaction, and consequently, FDI policy outcomes. Her other research interests include international economic organizations and the politics of international finance.
Erin Graham will receive her Ph.D. in Political Science from The Ohio State University in August 2011. Her research interests focus on the evolving role and relative effectiveness of international organizations (IOs) in global politics. In her dissertation project she theorizes how the relationship between IO bureaucracies and powerful donor states influences the effectiveness of IO efforts to build capacity and provide services in developing countries. The theory is tested in the areas of global health and climate change. Her other research interests include IO accountability and legitimacy, and domestic and international policy diffusion.
Erin Snider recently finished her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge where she was a Gates Scholar in the Department of Politics and International Studies. Her dissertation focused on the political economy of U.S. democracy assistance in the Middle East through an examination of USAID efforts in Egypt and Morocco since 1990. She was previously a Fulbright scholar in Egypt and has conducted fieldwork in Egypt, Morocco, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Afghanistan. Erin earned her MSc in Middle East Politics at SOAS, University of London and her BA in International Relations at James Madison University. Prior to graduate studies, she worked for several years on the landmine issue for the U.S. Department of State and the United Nations Association in New York. Her research interests include the political economy of development in the Middle East, Egyptian politics, democratization, and foreign assistance.
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- Research Fellow at the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School
Erin York is a research fellow at the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School and a PhD candidate in Political Science at Columbia University. Her research addresses institutions under autocracy, with a focus on legislative institutions and opposition participation. Additional research interests include the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa as well as ethnicity and migration. Beginning in Fall 2021, she will be Assistant Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University.
Faisal Z. Ahmed received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in June 2010. His dissertation examines how governments, especially those in autocracies, can manage and often harness various forms of international capital to their political advantage. Faisal's broader research interests are in political economy, empirical international trade, law and public policy. Before returning to academia, Faisal served on the Council of Economic Advisers as a staff economist for international finance, trade, and macroeconomics and as an associate macroeconomist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Faisal has a BA/MA in economics and BA in mathematics from Northwestern University.
Fiona Bare is a PhD candidate in Politics at Princeton University. She studies the political economy of climate change using game theory, statistical inference, and qualitative methods. Fiona's research explores the politics of uncertainty around climate change, looking to understand drivers of cooperation versus conflict. Another area of research examines the role of non-state actors in climate policymaking. She is also affiliated with the Princeton Sovereign Finance Lab and the High Meadows Environmental Institute as a Princeton Energy and Climate Scholar. Fiona holds a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Claremont McKenna College, and previously worked as a strategy consultant for a boutique social impact firm.
Florian Hollenbach is a PhD Candidate in Political Economy and Methods in the Department of Political Science at Duke University. His dissertation research is concerned with fiscal policy in non-democratic regimes and the development of fiscal capacity by authoritarian elites. In addition, he is interested in the study of conflict and economic development, as well as quantitative methods. He is the author of an article entitled, "Technology and Collective Action: The Effect of Cell Phone Coverage on Political Violence in Africa", published in the American Political Science Review and "Stepping Into The Future: The Next Generation of Crisis Forecasting Models", published in the International Studies Review.
Francesca Parente will receive her PhD from UCLA in June 2019. Her research interests include international law, international organizations, and human rights. Francesca's dissertation analyzes compliance with rulings of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and focuses primarily on the domestic political incentives for non-compliance that exist in Latin America when current governments are asked to confront the human rights abuses of the past. Beyond her work on compliance, Francesca is also interested in the consequences of institutional design on state behavior; in particular, she examines the design of international laws on state responsibility and of the Inter-American system of human rights protection. Francesca received her B.A. in Classics and the interdisciplinary Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law program from the University of Virginia, where she was also an Echols Scholar.
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- Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs Department of Politics and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Gabriele Magni received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research lies at the intersection of political economy and political psychology, with a focus on immigration, inequality, and redistribution. He examines how the economic context affects views on group membership, and how these changing perceptions in turn influence preferences and behavior. His dissertation shows how economic inequality in advanced democracies intensifies competition with outgroups and makes people less generous toward immigrants, thereby favoring populist actors. Another stream of his work explores representation, with a focus on sexual identity, gender and political elites. His work combines survey analysis, experiments, and elite interviews, and has been published in the American Political Science Review and in Electoral Studies.
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- Faculty Associate
- Professor of Politics and International Affairs Department of Politics and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Gavin Medina-Hall is a 3rd year Ph.D. student in politics at Princeton University. His research interests are the intersection of international political economy and race and ethnic politics. His current work centers on how the U.S. general public processes information on various international policies.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science
Geoffrey Wallace is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He received his PhD in government from Cornell University as well as an MA and BA from the University of Toronto. His research focuses on wartime violence, the design and effectiveness of international institutions, and public attitudes toward foreign policy. His research has been published, or is forthcoming, in International Organization, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and International Studies Quarterly, among others. His first book is entitled, Surrendering the Higher Ground: The Abuse of Prisoners during War and is currently under contract at Cornell University Press. While at the Niehaus Center, he will continue work on a second book manuscript, which employs a series of survey experiments to examine the domestic underpinnings of international legal commitments.
George Gray Molina is from Bolivia. He gained his doctorate in Politics at Oxford University in 2004 and plans to work on how trade and labor policies affect growth and inequality, focusing on Bolivia.
Gerda Hooijer is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. She also holds a M.Sc. in Comparative Social Policy from Oxford and a M.Sc. in Political Science from Radboud University Nijmegen. Her research interests include comparative political economy, comparative social policy, and the politics of immigration in advanced democracies. Gerda's current research examines the effects of immigration and increased diversity on voters' support for generous and inclusive welfare states. It draws on survey analysis and experiments. At the Niehaus Center, she will focus on turning her dissertation into a book manuscript. She will also work on ongoing collaborative projects on the politics of immigration, and the long-term political consequences of famines. Her work has appeared in Comparative Political Studies.
Gino Pauselli is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science and Master's candidate in Statistics. His research examines how multiple actors contribute to human rights progress and backlash around the world. In his dissertation, he studies how criticism from states leads to the expansion and contraction of rights granted to the LGBT community. In another set of projects, he explores the role of NGOs in the promotion and protection of human rights in the Inter-American human rights system, how rising powers shift states' preferences toward human rights, and how anxieties about territorial sovereignty negatively affect the enjoyment of basic human rights. His work has been published or is forthcoming in International Studies Quarterly, PS: Political Science & Politics, Latin American Politics and Society, Human Rights Review, and Oxford University Press.
Giovanni Mantilla received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on "historical global governance," seeking to understand the origins, design, development and effects of international law, particularly in the fields of humanitarian law and human rights. His current work examines the history and politics of the international humanitarian law of internal armed conflicts, including Common Article 3 to the 1949 Geneva Conventions, and the Additional Protocols to those Conventions, from 1977. Why and how did international standards of humane conduct emerge in an area so sensitive to states? Despite the well-known gravity of civil war violence around the world, little systematic theory-driven research has been devoted to these questions, which Mantilla tries to answer through in-depth archival work.
Grace Zeng is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics. She studies international political economy, trade, and regulations. Her research focuses on labor and environmental provisions in international trade agreements. She holds an M.A. in the Social Sciences (MAPSS) from the University of Chicago and a B.Sc. in mathematics and physics from the University of Hong Kong.
Gökçe Göktepe is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics at NYU and holds a MA in economics from Stanford University. Previously she studied economics at Bosphorous University, Istanbul and attended Robert College, Istanbul. Her research areas are comparative political economy, international political economy and quantitative methodology. Her doctoral theses empirically analyses the role of the military in the economic decision making in developing countries (Turkey, Pakistan and Thailand) where de facto democratization has not accompanied these countries' de jure democratic transitions. While at the Center for Globalization and Governance, Gökçe will focus on turning her dissertation into a book manuscript. She will also be working on a project that seeks to explain the lack of democratization in the Middle East by constructing a new dataset to test hypothesis derived from a game-theoretic model of democratic transition in construction. This project focuses on the military-state alliance as a rational ruling coalition strategy that has not yet received attention in the IR literature.
Hao Zhang is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include international political economy, Chinese politics, and political methodology. His book project examines how the rise of global production networks reshape trade coalitions within and across national borders, with regional focuses on U.S. and China. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science and The Chinese Journal of International Politics, and he has also won multiple awards, including the Best Paper in International Relations from the Midwest Political Science Association and the Best Paper in Political Economy from the American Political Science Association. Before MIT, he received a B.A. in International Political Economy from Renmin University of China, an M.A. in International Politics from Tsinghua University, and a second M.A. in International Economics and China Studies from Johns Hopkins SAIS.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies Professor of History and International Affairs Department of History and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Heather E. McKibben a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh is working on her dissertation which addresses why, and the conditions under which, states will adopt bargaining strategies that are cooperative in nature, when they are often assumed to adopt non-cooperative types of strategies. Her research addresses the relationship between institutional design and international bargaining cooperation analyzed in terms of state bargaining strategies, a linkage as yet unexplained in the IR literature. During the tenure of this fellowship, Heather's dissertation project will be expanded from her studies of the EU to highlight and focus on additional theoretical and empirical contributions. Ms. McKibben is expected to receive her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in May 2008.
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- Director
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Forbes Professor of Politics and International Affairs Director, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance
Director Helen Milner is pleased to announce that the new cohort of Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance (NCGG) fellows chosen from a large pool of applicants from all over the globe will be in residence from September 2023 through June 2024. Niehaus Fellows pursue their own research projects and contribute to the intellectual life of the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.
Hoda Youssef received her Ph.D. in Economics from Sciences Po Paris in February 2010. Her research work focuses on monetary and fiscal policy, more specifically on the economic, political and institutional preconditions that are necessary for a successful adoption of an inflation targeting framework. Her broader research interests are in macroeconomics and political economy of the MENA region. Before joining the NCGG, Hoda has worked as an Economic Research Analyst at the World Bank Cairo office. She also acquired experience through her work and internships in many other international and multicultural institutions, including the European Commission, the Global Development Network, l'Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), the Free University of Brussels ULB, as well as local organizations in Egypt. She is also a lecturer at Cairo University. Hoda speaks English, French and Arabic and has publications on growth and economic policies in both English and French.
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- Associate Professor of Politics and Public Affairs Department of Politics and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Hyeon-Young Ro is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include the politics of foreign direct investment, trade, global business strategy, and the intersection of security and economic activity. Hyeon-Young's dissertation focuses on the policy preferences of domestic firms seeking protection from foreign multinational corporations in the home market. By employing formal theory and quantitative empirical methods, she finds that the industrial structures of host markets and market entry strategies of multinationals play critical roles in shaping preferences of domestic producers on foreign direct investment regulations. She has other ongoing works on trade's progressive opponents and the effect of security alliances on cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Hyeon-Young holds an MA from Georgetown University and a BA from Korea University.
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- Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois
Ian Hurd is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. His research is on the ways that governments and international organizations interact with and shape each other, both directly (through negotiations and treaties) and indirectly (through legitimation, authority, and social construction). His most recent book is International Organizations: Politics, Law, Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He is currently writing a book on the strategic manipulation of international law which examines how states use, interpret, and are changed by the rules, norms, and practices of international law.
In Song Kim is an Associate Professor of Political Science and a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University. His research interests include International Political Economy, Formal and Quantitative Methodology. Dr. Kim's research examines firm-level political incentives to lobby for trade liberalization. He also develops methods for dimension reduction and visualization to investigate how the structure of international trade around the globe has evolved over time. He maintains two databases for social science research: LobbyView and TradeLab. His work has appeared and forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, Annual Review of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, Political Analysis, The Journal of Politics, and The Review of International Organizations.
James Ashley Morrison received a Ph.D. in political science and an MA in history from Stanford University in 2008. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College in Vermont. He is particularly interested in international political economy and the history of political and economic ideas. His book manuscript analyzes the influence of three seminal theorists--John Locke, Adam Smith, and JM Keynes--on pivotal shifts in Britain's foreign economic policy. A portion of this project is forthcoming in International Organization under the title "Before Hegemony: Adam Smith, American Independence, and the Origins of the First Era of Globalization."
James R. Hollyer is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. During the 2015-2016 academic year, I am also a visiting research fellow at the Niehaus Center on Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. My research interests include patronage and corruption, transparency, and the effects of international institutions on domestic politics. I conducted my doctoral studies in the Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University (PhD, May 2012). My work has been published in such journals as the American Political Science Review, Political Analysis, the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and International Studies Quarterly.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor
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- Lecturer in International Political Economy
Jeffrey Kucik is Lecturer in International Political Economy and Director of the MSc International Public Policy programme. He holds a PhD from Emory University (2010) and an MA from the University of Manchester (2005). He lectures on international organization and political economy. He joined UCL in the fall of 2010. His research explores issues in international political economy. He focuses primarily on the legal architecture of the global trade regime. His recent work seeks to explain variation in the design of preferential trade agreements as well as the distributional consequences of agreement membership. Beyond trade institutions, Jeffrey is also interested in the politics of global economic governance, the determinants of foreign investment flows and the intersection conflict and the market.
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- Faculty Associate
- Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Department of History
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- Research Fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization
Jiakun Jack Zhang is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. His research explores the political economy of trade and conflict in East Asia. His dissertation examines when and why China uses military versus economic coercion in its foreign policy disputes with economically interdependent neighbors. He also has projects on the impact of trade competition with China on domestic politics in the United States and the political economy of disengagement. Jack holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California San Diego and a B.A. from Duke University. Prior to coming to UC San Diego, he worked as a China researcher for the Eurasia Group in Washington, DC. Follow Jack on Twitter @HanFeiTzu.
Jiseon Chang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, focusing on international relations and methods. She completed two degrees from Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea): a B.A. in economics and international studies at Underwood International College and a master…
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- Research Fellow at Zhejiang University
Jiyong Jin has previously worked as a research fellow at Zhejiang University, China where he conducted two national projects supported by China's Ministry of Education and China's Post-doc Foundation. In June 2009 he obtained his PhD in International Relations from Fudan University, China. He has also studied as a Fox Fellow at Yale University from 2008 to 2009. His research areas cover health diplomacy, global health governance, and U.S. health policy. Currently, he is conducting research on China's capacity building in implementing the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and its implications for global health governance.
Joe Wright will receive his PhD in political science at UCLA in June 2007. He also holds an MA in political economy from Washington University (St. Louis, MO). His research interests lie in comparative political economy and international development. His dissertation explains how political institutions, in both dictatorships and democracies, impact the relationship between foreign aid and economic growth in recipient countries, and how aid influences democratization. During his fellowship year, Joe will begin a project that explains why dictators create different types of political institutions, and then examines the impact of authoritarian political institutions on growth, investment, repression, and regime survival.
Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl will receive his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 2011. His dissertation research examines how support that external states provide to domestic armed actors can increase the length of civil wars. His dissertation tests this theory of external support as a subsidy using interviews with former commanders who participated in the civil war in Lebanon from 1975-1990, cross-country statistical evidence, and focused comparisons of other civil wars. While at the Niehaus Center, Jonah will expand his research on the implications of this theory for alliance behavior and the operational aims of violence during civil wars, and pursue its implications for security and development in the Middle East. His research interests, in addition to the conduct of civil wars, include economic growth and development in the Middle East.
Jorge Bravo received his Ph.D. from Duke University and is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. He is interested in Comparative Politics, Political Economy (domestic and international), and Political Behavior. His research revolves around Latin America (and in particular Mexico) and aims to contribute to the growing scholarship on globalization and domestic politics by highlighting a little studied area of inquiry: how migration may influence the relationship between politicians and citizens in a country of emigration. He is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Mexico without (some) Mexicans: Migration, Remittances, and Politics. He is also working on several papers that address some of the consequences of migration and remittances on a wide variety of outcomes - from economic evaluations and presidential approval to lop-sided sex-ratios and women's political participation.
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- Graduate Student, Department of Politics
Joshua Busby holds a PhD in Government from Georgetown University and is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. His research interests include IPE, American foreign policy and grand strategy, and transnational social movements. Among his many publications are "The Security Implications of Climate Change For The UN System" with Nigel Purvis and "Listen! Pay Attention! Jubilee 2000 and Transnational Advocacy". Joshua is also currently working on publishing his dissertation into a book titled "States of Grace: Debt Relief, Climate Change and Moral Action in Foreign Policy."
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- Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University
Joshua D. Kertzer is Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University. His research explores the intersection of international security, foreign policy, political psychology, and experimental methods. He is the author of Resolve in International Politics (Princeton University Press, 2016) along with articles appearing in a variety of outlets, including the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and World Politics. His work has also received a number of awards, including the American Political Science Association's Helen Dwight Reid and Kenneth N. Waltz awards, as well as recognitions from the Peace Science Society, International Society of Political Psychology, and Council of Graduate Schools.
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- Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University
Julia Gray is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in international relations with a focus on international political economy. She received her PhD in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles and an MSc with distinction in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics. Her research centers on international economic relations and economic organizations in emerging markets. Her work in international political economy and international organization has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, the European Journal of Political Research, Political Science Research Methods, and the Review of International Organizations. Her first book, The Company States Keep: International Economic Organizations and Investor Perceptions is forthcoming at Cambridge University Press. She is currently working on a second manuscript that focuses on the lifespans of both functional and dysfunctional regional economic organizations.
Junghyun Lim will receive her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in July 2021. Her research explores the effects of globalization on domestic politics, with a focus on the political impacts of international migration both in sending and receiving countries. In her dissertation, she examines how international migration flows affect nationalist backlashes and democratic backsliding in sending countries. Junghyun is also interested in studying the impacts of technological changes on local labor markets and individual political preferences. She uses a diverse set of data and methods including surveys, experiments, and computational tools, such as machine learning, Bayesian statistics, and text analysis. Her work has appeared in Electoral Studies and Democratization.
Katherine Beall is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the expansion of regionalism in the Global South and on North-South contestation over norms of non-interference, human rights, and development. Her dissertation examines the decision by leaders in Latin America and Africa to delegate authority for enforcing human rights to their regional organizations, arguing that this was a way of trading sovereignty, in the sense of national autonomy and exclusive authority, for self-determination, or the ability to participate in decision-making that affects them. She finds that this objective united dictatorships and democracies, while pushing authoritarian leaders to open themselves up to challenging regional enforcement. Katherine holds an M.A. from Columbia University and a B.A. from the University of Kansas.
Kevin L. Young received his PhD from the London School of Economics in August 2010. His dissertation was an extensive empirical study of the role that banking associations and business lobbyists have played in the formation of global regulatory standards in banking. A key finding, arrived at through mixed methods, is that transnationally organized lobbyists are less successful at achieving regulatory policy change than national lobbyists are. Kevin's broader research interests include how the system of global financial governance is changing, the political economy of international negotiation, and the transformation of private sector power in contemporary politics. His current research focuses on how private sector groups and regulators have changed their policy shaping strategies in response to the recent global financial crisis. Kevin has a BA from Trent University, an MA from Carleton University, and an MRes from the London School of Economics.
Kevin Morrison is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Duke University. His dissertation focuses on political regime stability and explores the effect of a variety of different revenue sources which are all derived without taxation of society. The argument is that these "non-tax revenues" -- such as foreign aid and income from state-owned oil enterprises -- reduce redistributional pressures in society and therefore lead to greater stability in both dictatorships and democracies. At Princeton, Morrison will be working on converting his dissertation into a book manuscript. He has an M.A. in economics (Duke University), an M.Sc. in development studies (London School of Economics), and a B.A. in political science (Emory University). He also has a background in development policy research, having worked for the Overseas Development Council, the World Bank, and the Center for Global Development.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of Politics Department of Politics
Krzysztof J. Pelc is a Ph.D. Candidate at Georgetown University. His current research considers how specific aspects of international economic rules advantage some actors over others, and how such distributional effects determine the evolution of these rules, and the resulting prospects for international cooperation. This has led him to examine, among other topics, escape clauses in economic agreements, unilateralism in international trade, and labor and environmental standards at the GATT/WTO. His work appears in International Organization, the International Studies Quarterly, the Transition Studies Review, and Democracy and Society, and is supported by research and travel grants from the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council, the American National Science Foundation, and Georgetown University. He is expecting to defend his dissertation in August 2009.
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- Graduate Student, Department of Politics
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- Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh
Laura Paler is an Assistant Professor in the political science department at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Paler's research is on the political economy of development. Her main interest is in studying how different sources of revenue (natural resource rents, foreign aid, and taxes) affect political behavior, governance, and development. She also has ongoing projects on post-conflict reintegration and identity politics. Her work employs a variety of experimental methods, original survey and behavioral data collection, and extensive field research, most recently in Indonesia, Colombia, Uganda, Lebanon, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Dr. Paler completed her Ph.D. in political science at Columbia University in 2012 and she is a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C.
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- Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis
Lauren Peritz is an assistant professor at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on the effectiveness of international organizations in promoting economic cooperation. While at Niehaus, Lauren will work on a project that examines domestic political barriers to compliance with legal rulings from the World Trade Organization and European Court of Justice. Beyond her work on international courts, Lauren is also interested in the proliferation of preferential trade agreements, especially network effects.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor
Le Thanh Forsberg is from Vietnam. She obtained her Bachelor Degree in International Studies from Vietnam National University in 1998. In 2000, she completed the Uppsala Master Program in International Studies, with major in Peace and Conflict Research, in Sweden. Her research focused on regionalism and security cooperation in Southeast Asia. In 2007, she received her Doctorate in development studies and institutional economics from Lund University through the fellowships of the Swedish School of Advanced Asia-Pacific Studies and the European Institute of Japanese Studies at the Stockholm School of Economics. Her research area was the politics of foreign aid and the defining of ownership in development planning of recipient countries, with a particular geographical reference to Vietnam.
She is now a fellow of the Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Program. Her research interests in this program are how domestic politics and international interactions shape public policies in developing countries. The year in Oxford was to define to what extent political constraints and economic interests influence healthcare reforms and the rapid commercialization of healthcare services in Vietnam. She plans for the year in Princeton to focus on to what extent development cooperation with international donors has influenced the institutional design and policy outcomes in the Vietnamese healthcare.
Apart from her academic affiliations, Le Thanh has conducted policy analysis and consultancies for international and think-tank organizations on development strategies such as UNDP, OECD, FRIDE; and government agencies in Sweden and Vietnam.
Rahmane Idrissa was born 1971 in Niger and first went to University in Senegal, at the University Cheikh Anta Diop, taking courses in Philosophy and Political Science. He wrote a Philosophy Maîtrise thesis in 1998 on the political geography of Jean-Jacques Rousseau before beginning his research into the decade-long democratic transition of Niger in the 1990s. In 2001 he won a Fulbright fellowship to study in the Political Science program of the University of Kansas and then began a PhD at the University of Florida in 2003. His current research focuses on the political economy of regional integration in West Africa. His doctorate examined the relations between the liberal democratic civil society and the Islamic civil society (or ‘clerical society') in the ways in which they shape Nigerien governance agendas within a much-weakened state. Alongside this work, Rahmane has also written and published on other issues, such as maternal health care.
Le Thanh Forsberg is from Vietnam. She obtained her doctorate from Lund University in Sweden in 2007 and plans to work on how institutional inequality in developing countries shapes and affects the outcomes of public health policies and what role international donors can play in the governance of public health-care.
Rahmane Idrissa is currently a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Florida. He was born 1971 in Niger and first went to University in Senegal, at the University Cheikh Anta Diop, taking courses in Philosophy and Political Science. He wrote a Philosophy Maîtrise thesis in 1998 on the political geography of Jean-Jacques Rousseau before beginning his research into the decade-long democratic transition of Niger in the 1990s. In 2001 he won a Fulbright fellowship to study in the Political Science program of the University of Kansas and then began a PhD at the University of Florida in 2003. His research focuses on democratization in West Africa. His doctorate examines the relations between the francophone elite in Niger and other social groups (including the West African Muslim community) and their alternative visions of political and social order - and the way alternative notions of legitimacy and social order have gathered force in the context of democratizing efforts within a much-weakened state. Alongside this work, Rahmane has also written and published on other issues, such as maternal health care.
Leany Barreiro Lemos has a Masters in Political Science and a Doctorate in Comparative Studies on the Americas, both granted by the University of Brasilia, Brazil. Her dissertation "Legislative Control in Presidential Democracies: Brazil and United States in Comparative Perspective" was twice awarded: it won the Best Doctoral Dissertation Prize 2005-2006, by the Latin American Political Science Association, and Honor Mention at the 2006 Great Prize of Doctoral Dissertation, awarded by Capes, the Brazilian Agency for Higher Education and Research. She was an APSA/ Fulbright Congressional Fellow in 2003-2004; Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University (2003-2004); and Visiting Research Associate at the Centre for Brazilian Studies and St. Antony´s College, University of Oxford (2006). She has edited the book "The Brazilian Federal Senate after the 1988 Constitution" (2008), and has published several articles on Legislative Studies. Leany Barreiro Lemos has been a permanent staffer of the Brazilian Federal Senate since 1993, where she has served as senior advisor or chief of staff to a number of influential senators. Currently, she is also an Associate Professor at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Brasilia. She is married to Carlos Pio and the mother of Phillipo Gomes (20), Paola Gomes (18) and Thiago Gomes (13).
Leonardo Baccini earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin in September of 2009. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy at New York University (2008-2009) and assistant professor at IMT Lucca (2009-2011). While at the Niehaus Center, Leonardo will work on a book project on north-south trade agreements. The book's core argument is that the formation of EU and US trade agreements is driven by the willingness of new leaders in developing countries to implement and lock in economic reforms. This thesis is tested using a combination of qualitative data from interviews and analytical case studies with quantitative data from an original dataset on the scope of trade agreements. His other research interests include the design of international institutions and diffusion of international organizations in sectors as diverse as trade, labor standards, and energy. His work has been published or is forthcoming in the British Journal of Political Science, European Union Politics, and European Journal of International Relations. Leonardo will join the department of international relations at LSE in July 2012.
Leslie Johns earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Politics at New York University in May of 2008. She is an assistant professor of political science at UCLA. Her research focuses on the rational design of international organizations and law. While at the Niehaus Center, Leslie will work on projects that examine the design of international trade agreements and the role of third parties in WTO dispute settlement. Her work has been published in International Organization and the Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Lindsay Dolan is a Niehaus fellow with research interests in international political economy and comparative politics in developing countries. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University and will be an Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University beginning in 2019. Her research draws on experimental and observational methods to explore the role of international organizations, foreign aid, and political accountability in the context of global changes in the distribution of wealth and power. Her most recent work investigates how international organizations formally classify developing countries and how these classifications themselves shape development and political trajectories.
Lotem Bassan-Nygate is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a predoctoral research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Middle East Initiative. Her research explains the domestic consequences of foreign criticism in the target and sender states. Lotem's ongoing work examines how human rights shaming shapes attitudes at home; the role of racial rhetoric in shaping dynamics of foreign criticism; and the generalizability of international relations experiments beyond the U.S. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Experimental Political Science, World Trade Review, and International Relations.
Luara Ferracioli holds a Bachelor Degree in International Relations, a Masters in Applied Ethics and a PhD in Philosophy, the latter completed at the Australian National University, Research School of Social Science. In her PhD thesis, she developed a new model of migration, one that accepts the right of states to control their border but simultaneously requests that they allocate membership in ways that are attentive to the needs of vulnerable members of the international community.
At Oxford, she he is conducting research on immigration and global governance. Her broader research interests include gender theory, philosophy of education and political reform in Brazil.
Apart from her academic interests, Luara has coordinated two national projects for the YWCA of Australia and has served on community boards while undertaking her PhD in Australia.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University
Lucy Martin is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. She has a Ph.D. in Political Science and an M.A. in Economics from Yale University. Her research interests include comparative politics, the political economy of development, African politics, experimental methods, and formal theory. Lucy is currently working on a book project examining the relationship between taxation and political accountability in sub-Saharan Africa. In recent work she provides new experimental evidence from Uganda that taxation has a behavioral effect on citizen preferences, decreasing toleration of corruption and increasing the demand for accountability. The book expands on the experimental results, analyzing when and how governments will tax citizens, given that doing so may increase accountability pressures. Beyond her work on taxation, Lucy is interested in corruption and accountability more generally. She is currently conducting research on when corruption will induce citizens to take part in collective action, and how citizens decide whom to blame for accountability failures. She is also interested in the psychological mechanisms that affect when citizens will take part in elections or protests. Her work has been covered in The Economist.
Marco Martini received his Ph.D. from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in February 2018. His interests lie at the intersection of international political economy, strategic bargaining, and political methodology. His research investigates how industry-specific government preferences affect bargaining and dispute behavior in international trade relations. Specifically, Marco's research examines how bilateral preference constellations shape the degree of dispute escalation and the terms of an eventual agreement. To compile previously unavailable data on trade barriers, dispute events, and dispute outcomes, Marco draws on a variety of methods, including automated text analysis, mathematical simulations, and statistical modelling. Marco has won the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS) Award 2018 for the best PhD thesis submitted at a Swiss University on a subject related to International Studies.
Maria A. Gwynn. PhD, (magna cum laude) Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany (2015). Magister Juris, University of Oxford, UK (2008). LLB (Honours) Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay (2004). Further postgraduate diplomas: International Practice Diplomas in International Arbitration and Merger & Acquisitions from the College of Law of England and Wales & International Bar Association (2005/6). Researcher at UNIDROIT (June-July,2007); Visiting Scholar, Center for International Legal Education, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh (2012-2013); Junior Academic Visitor, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford (2013-2014); Admitted to law practice in Asuncion, Paraguay by the Supreme Court of Justice since 2005; passed the Multi-State Professional and Responsibility Examination of the National Conference of Bar Examiners in the US (2016). Publications: "Contratos Internacionales para el Sector Privado" El Lector, Asunción-Paraguay, 2007; "South American Countries' Bilateral Investment Treaties: A Structuralist Perspective". Journal of International Dispute Settlement (2015) 6(1): 97-117; and "Power in the International Investment Framework", Palgrave Mcmillan, UK, forthcoming 2016.
Maria Nagawa is a joint Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University specializing in the political economy of development. She studies the dynamics of governance and development including the role of bureaucrats, international actors, and traditional institutions. The main strand of her research explores the effects of aid on the incentives of bureaucrats in aid-recipient countries. Her other research interests include the role of traditional leaders in political participation and in public service provision in the African context and NGO responses to state repression. Nagawa blends quantitative and qualitative methods in her work, including survey experiments that draw from in-depth interviews. She has held various research positions with the Embassy of France in Uganda, the Trade Facilitation Office in the Canada Department of Global Affairs, the BRICS Policy Center in Brazil, the Economic Policy Research Centre in Uganda, and the University of Colorado Denver in the United States. Maria has also taught Ugandan Economy, Regional Integration, and International Business Economics at Makerere University Business School in Uganda. While at Princeton, Maria will continue to study institutional efficacy in the Global South including the role of bureaucrats in development.
Mark Copelovitch holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University and will begin teaching at the University of Wisconsin after his fellowship year. He studies the politics of international financial and monetary relations. Mark's dissertation focuses on the political economy of International Monetary Fund lending over the last two decades. His research interests also include European monetary integration, the domestic politics of international cooperation, and the politics of financial regulation. He is the author of Private Debt Composition and the Political Economy of IMF Lending, and has taught The Politics of Global Financial Relations at Harvard University.
Job Titles:
- Faculty Associate
- Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics Department of Politics
Job Titles:
- Faculty Associate
- Professor of Politics Department of Politics
Matt Malis is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at New York University, and an incoming Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University. His research focuses on diplomacy and the bureaucratic politics of foreign policy, using game-theoretic and quantitative methods. Ongoing work examines the strategic use of face-to-face diplomatic visits; the informational role of presidential advisors in crisis bargaining; and the consequences of U.S. ambassadorial vacancies. His work has been published in International Organization, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Theoretical Politics, and multiple edited volumes.
Job Titles:
- Class of 1943 Professor of Politics Department of Politics
Job Titles:
- Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Moneta
Michael D. Bordo is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Monetary and Financial History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He has held previous academic positions at the University of South Carolina and Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He has been a visiting Professor at the University of California Los Angeles, Carnegie Mellon University, Princeton University and a Visiting Scholar at the IMF, Federal Reserve Banks of St. Louis and Cleveland, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England and the Bank for International Settlement. He also is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has a B.A. degree from McGill University, a M.Sc.(Econ) from the London School of Economics and he received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1972. He has published many articles in leading journals and ten books in monetary economics and monetary history including: with Claudia Goldin and Eugene White, The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century, University of Chicago Press, 1998; Essays on the Gold Standard and Related Regimes, Cambridge University Press, 1999 and with Alan Taylor and Jeffrey Williamson, Globalization in Historical Perspective, University of Chicago Press, 2003. Professor Bordo is also editor of a series of books for Cambridge University Press: Studies in Macroeconomic History.
Michael-David Mangini is a Ph.D.candidate in Political Economy and Government at Harvard University and expects to receive the degree in May 2022. His work studies the circumstances under which a mutually beneficial international economic relationship transforms into a political vulnerability. His dissertation uses quantitative and qualitative methods to show how the design, scope, prevalence, and effectiveness of economic coercion all depend on the believability of threats to interrupt market access. He also has research interests in the political economy of trade policy and state formation. In addition to the Ph.D. he also holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Michihito Kojima is a Visiting Professional Specialist at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He was a former senior advisor for WTO (World Trade Organization) Affairs in the Customs and Tariff Bureau of Japan's Ministry of Finance, in particular being engaged in the intensive negotiation on the recently-concluded Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA). He joined the Ministry in 1994 and for the most of his professional career has been engaged in the issues on customs, tariff and trade policy or on international development, including drafting amended domestic customs laws and regulations, negotiating FTA and WTO legal texts, examining financial aid for infrastructure development in developing countries and providing technical assistance to customs authorities. His research is centered on trade and development. At Princeton, he will research the followings: past, present and future of global trade facilitation in the context of negotiation, implementation and review of the TFA; the role of global tariff policy in the age of Mega-FTA negotiations: GVC (global value chain), trade in value-added and their corresponding trade and development policy.
Job Titles:
- Faculty Associate
- Musgrave Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Minh Ly's research in political theory focuses on questions of democratic theory, global justice, ethics and public policy, and the justice of international finance. He is currently working on a book manuscript, Global Deliberation: A Human Right to Deliberative Democracy that examines how states and international organizations can be held democratically accountable for respecting human rights. It argues for a participatory theory of accountability, called deliberative justification that would more strongly protect human rights than accountability through states, while being more feasible than global democracy. He has published in the Review of International Political Economy (2012) and the Routledge Handbook of Global Economic Governance (2013). Ly holds a Ph.D. in political science from Brown University and an A.B. in social studies from Harvard University.
Mitchell Watkins is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His research lies in the political economy of development and explores how foreign aid affects policy reform, electoral outcomes, and accountability in developing countries. One stream of his research examines the effect of Chinese development assistance on recipient country compliance with Western aid conditionality. Other streams of research examine the effect of foreign aid on the incidence of political cycles in expenditures and taxation in developing democracies and the impact of foreign aid on institutional trust. His future research agenda will explore the impact of elections on the subnational allocation of foreign aid.
Monica Widmann is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research explores economic reform, sovereign debt politics, and the politics of global economic governance. Her book project analyzes the role of US courts in settling disputes between creditors and debtor states. It examines the change in US foreign policy from one of recognizing absolute sovereignty to that of restrictive sovereignty, and why US courts gained the power to adjudicate over disputes involving sovereign states from the State Department. The book also explores the factors influencing judicial decision-making and the unintended consequences of judicial decisions on the debtor state's economy. To examine the development and role of US courts in disputes involving sovereign states, she collected and utilized three new data sets covering a time frame from 1811 until March 2022 that provide detailed information on sovereign litigation cases.
Job Titles:
- Faculty Associate
- Assistant Professor, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Department of Politics
Nancy Brune is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. Her focus is on the political economy of the macroeconomy. Nancy's research examines the global diffusion of privatization and the regulatory bodies and legal frameworks created to support privatization programs. She is also interested in the institutions that mediate economic policy outcomes in developing countries. She is the author of The IMF and the Global Spread of Privatization and The Globalization Rorschach Test: International Economic Integration, Inequality, and the Role of Government, which is forthcoming in 2005.
Navid Hassanpour came to the U.S. from Iran as a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at Stanford (Ph.D. 2006). Later he pursued his interest in political theory (M.A. 2009, Philosophy, Stanford) and contentious politics and competitive authoritarianism in the Middle East (Ph.D. May 2014, Political Science, Yale). He is currently working on projects enabled by the recent digital revolution: micropatterns of urban conflict in Cairo and Damascus, dynamics of online electoral conversation during the 2013 Iranian elections, and network experiments of collective risk-taking on Amazon Mechanical Turk. At Princeton he will study the prospects of electoral politics in contemporary Iran while finishing his book manuscript "Communication and Conflict" (under consideration at Cambridge University Press). The book proposes a logic of contagion--instead of coordination--for collective action, and examines the theory in the context of recent Middle Eastern urban uprisings past 2011.
Job Titles:
- Research Associate at the Crawford School of Public
Nematullah Bizhan is a research associate at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Development Policy Centre, at the Australian National University. Dr. Bizhan completed his PhD at the Australian National University; his thesis examined the impacts of foreign aid on state building and in particular looked the case of Afghanistan between 2001 and 2009.
Bizhan contributed to state building and development efforts in Afghanistan for a decade and has worked with civil society, development organizations and the government. Dr. Bizhan has served in positions such as Director General for Policy, Monitoring and Evaluation of ANDS, head of the Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board Secretariat (JCDB) and Deputy Minister for Youth.
Bizhan has a MA in development economics from Williams College, MA. He was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship (2005 -2006) and the Australian Leadership Award (2009 - 2013).
Nicole Weygandt is a Ph.D. Candidate in Cornell University's Department of Government. Nicole's research centers on legal regimes and their role in the international political economy. In particular, Nicole studies the mechanisms by which diffusion and legal transplantation occur in different contexts. She emphasizes the role of developing countries as sources of legal innovation and promoters of diffusion. One area in which this is particularly pronounced is in oil and gas law. Nicole's dissertation explores the case of petroleum regimes, which determine the allocation of ownership and risk between host countries and investors.
Nicole Wu is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Michigan. Her research examines the political consequences of two of the most important changes in the contemporary world economy: technological change and the rise of China. Using surveys, experiments, and in-depth interviews, her dissertation explores mass attitudes toward workplace automation and globalization in the United States, China, and Japan. She has other published and ongoing work on trade related to China. She holds a MA in Political Science from Michigan and a BSSc (First Class Honors) in Government and Public Administration from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Previously, she was a visiting student at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Berkeley.
Nikhil Kalyanpur researches how global rules can serve as both a channel for economic protection and a mechanism to target political competition. Using original datasets and elite interviews, his book project analyzes why plutocrats from some emerging markets sue each other in foreign courts. Prior to pursuing a PhD at Georgetown, he received a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Brown University and worked as a Research Associate at Harvard Business School. His work is published in the European Journal of International Relations, International Organization, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Global Security Studies, and the Review of International Political Economy.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science
Nimah Mazaheri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Tufts University. His research and teaching interests center on comparative political economy with a focus on oil and mineral wealth and government-business relations. His primary regions of interest are the Middle East (Iran/Gulf region) and South Asia (India). His research has been published in World Development, Journal of Development Studies, Middle East Journal, Middle Eastern Studies, and Iranian Studies. In 2011, he was a Research Fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. From 2010 to 2011, he worked at the World Bank in Washington, DC, conducting political economy research on natural resources, public financial management, and public goods provision in India. He received training in quantitative methodology at the University of Washington, the EITM Institutes, and ICPSR. He received his PhD from the University of Washington in 2011.
Noah Zucker is a Ph.D.candidate in Political Science at Columbia University and an incoming Assistant Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics. Noah primarily studies global climate politics. His current research considers how ethnic, racial, and gender divisions interact with climate-induced economic transitions and other instances of economic change. He employs a range of quantitative and qualitative methods in his work, including field experimentation, geospatial analysis, historical records linking, and elite interviews. His work is published in the Journal of Politics and has received APSA's McGillivray Award for Best Paper in Political Economy, Sage Paper Prize for Best Paper in Comparative Politics, and Best Paper Award in Democracy and Autocracy. Prior to beginning his graduate work, Noah received a BA summa cum laude from the University of Southern California.
Job Titles:
- Research Associate at the Minda
Noam Gidron is a research associate at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. Noam received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in May 2016. Noam's research focuses on political economy and electoral politics in advanced democracies. It draws on multiple methods, including survey analysis, experiments, text analysis, and elite interviews. Geographically, Noam's work covers member states of the European Union, the United States and Israel. Noam's dissertation research examines the variety of right-wing ideologies in Western Europe and their implications for the strategic dilemmas of center-right parties.
Job Titles:
- Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs Department of Politics and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Job Titles:
- Oxford - Princeton Global Leaders Fellow
Omobolaji Olarinmoye is an Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow currently based at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, New Jersey. Nigerian and political scientist, Dr. Olarinmoye holds a doctorate in Comparative Politics from the University of Ibadan (2007), an M. Phil/D.E.A in African Politics from the Institut d' etudes Politique /Centre d'etudes d 'Afrique Noire, Bordeaux (2001), an M.sc (1998) and B.sc (1996) in Political Science from University of Ibadan. His areas of research interest are: Comparative Politics, African Politics/ Nigerian Government and Politics, Development Studies and Peacekeeping/Post conflict peace-building. Dr. Olarinmoye doctoral thesis on the "Politics of Ethnic Mobilization Amongst the Yoruba of South-western Nigeria" was awarded the Best Thesis Prize in Nigerian Politics and Government from the Department of Political Science University of Ibadan (2007). His M. Phi l/ D.E.A dissertation titled « Programme RECAMP: La Nouvelle Politique de Coopération Militaire Française en Afrique Noire » focused on France's Post-Cold War Military Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is competent in the use of English, French and Yoruba languages. Dr. Olarinmoye was programme coordinator, South-South Research Exchange Programme on History of Development, SEPHIS in the office of the Executive Secretary, CODESRIA Secretariat, Dakar and programme manager in the Training, Grants and Fellowship programme of CODESRIA with primary responsibility for Africa Capacity Building Foundation funded programmes of CODESRIA from November 2007-June 2010. Before then, he lectured in Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science, Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State, Nigeria (2006-2007). He is a recipient of numerous national and international awards/fellowships and grants: Thomas Torries Research Paper Award of the Mineral Economics and Management Society, USA, (2008); Cadbury Fellowship of the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham (2006); Commended Paper Award of the International Sociological Association (2005); Letter of Commendation for Academic Excellence from the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics), University of Ibadan (2006); the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE), University of Oxford research grant (2006); Institut Française de Recherché en Afrique research grant (2004); SEPHIS/CSSSC International Research Programme Fellowship (2004) and the Government of France Scholarship for Postgraduate Studies in France, 2000 -2001.
Ousseni Illy is a Burkina Faso national, and has joined the Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship Program in September 2011. After a year in Oxford, his is currently based in Princeton, at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance. His research interest focuses on international trade law and policy, especially on how to strengthen African countries' capacity within the Multilateral Trading System of the WTO. His current project deals with trade remedies (Anti-dumping, Countervailing and Safeguards) in Africa. Ousseni holds a PhD in International Trade Law from Geneva University and a Master in Public Law from the University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. He worked, among other things, as research assistant for Professor Gabrielle Marceau at Geneva University and for the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Furthermore, he has been an intern and a consultant for the UN (Legal Affairs, Codification Division) and PhD visiting researcher at the WTO Secretariat, Geneva. He speaks French, English, More and Dioula.
Ousseni Illy was born in 1977 in Burkina Faso. He did his primary education in Banwalé, a small village in the West of the country. He went to University in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, where he graduated with a Master (Maîtrise) in Law in 2003. In 2002 he won a scholarship from the Swiss Government for a short exchange programme at Geneva University. He came back to Geneva University in 2003 on his own for a Master (DEA) programme and then started a PhD programme in International Economic Law in 2005 at the same University. He obtained his doctorate in 2010. His research interests include international trade law (WTO, regional trade agreements, etc.), investment law, and international financial and monetary law. His PhD thesis dealt with the problematic of regionalism in WTO, with special focus on Africa's RTAs.
Peace A. Medie is a Research Fellow in the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD) at the University of Ghana and an Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow. Her research centers on the dynamics of violence during and after conflicts and the steps that state and non-state actors take to address this violence. Her book manuscript, Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence against Women in Africa, examines how international organizations and the women's movement have influenced the implementation of gender-based violence norms in Liberia and CÔte d'Ivoire. Peace's research has been supported by grants from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the American Political Science Association. Her work has been published in African Affairs, International Studies Review, and Politics & Gender and has won several awards, including the 2012-2013 African Affairs African Author Prize. She delivered the Royal African Society's 2015 Mary Kinglsey Zochonis Lecture. Prior to joining LECIAD, she was a Dissertation Fellow in the African and African Diaspora Studies program at Boston College. She earned a Ph.D. in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh.
Pia Raffler is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at Yale University. Her work lies at the intersection of comparative politics and political economy. Pia studies the politics of development, focusing on governance, bureaucracy, and electoral politics in Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular Uganda. She is interested in how theories on democratic political accountability travel to settings where many of their core assumptions - informed voters, political checks and balances, and a Weberian bureaucracy are not met. Her dissertation research focuses on political oversight of bureaucrats and implications for public service provision in local governments in developing states. She uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to measure causal relationships and disentangle the underlying mechanisms. During her time at CSDP and NCGG, Pia will work on turning her dissertation into a book and continue working on three extensions, each focusing on a different link in the accountability cycle: candidate selection, retrospective voting, and direct accountability. Pia holds an M.A. and M.Phil. from Yale University and a Master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia University.
Pichamon May Yeophantong is a Global Leaders Fellow based at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, having been previously based in the Global Economic Governance Programme, University College, Oxford. Pichamon completed her PhD and MA (First-Class Honors) in International Relations as an inaugural China Institute Scholar and Hedley Bull Scholar at the Australian National University, and has held visiting positions at Peking University and National Taiwan University, among others. Her research interests center broadly on Chinese foreign policy and history, theories of power and responsibility, and global environmental governance. She is currently working on two book manuscripts, one on China's ‘responsibility' in global governance and another on Chinese resource investments in mainland Southeast Asia.
Job Titles:
- Oxford - Princeton Global Leaders Fellow
Pooja Sharma is an Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs. Her current research is focused on international trade governance where she is investigating the diversity in trade agreements from a governance perspective. She argues that international trade agreements tend to vary not only in terms of their economic implications but also along their governance dimension. The aim of the research is to explore strategies for better aligning global institutions with the interests of people in developing countries. Her previous research includes the political economy of trade policy (published in the Review of Development Economics), regional integration (published in National Strategies for Regional Integration, Anthem Press for the Asian Development Bank, 2009), multilateral trade liberalization (available in the World Trade and Development Report, Oxford University Press, 2007) and trade transaction costs (available at the GTAP website). Pooja Sharma was previously a Fellow at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi, Visiting Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), New Delhi and Consultant, National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi. Pooja Sharma was educated at the University of Delhi (BA (Hons) and MA in economics) and received her Ph.D. in economics at the University of Cincinnati.
Qu Bo is from China. He gained his doctorate at Peking University in 2007 and plans to work on international monetary cooperation, focusing on the role of China.
Quynh Nguyen is a Niehaus fellow with research interests in international political economy and public opinion. Quynh received her PhD in International Relations and International Political Economy from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). In her current work, Quynh examines drivers of the relative allocation of consumption-based environmental footprint, focusing on the implications of preferential trade agreements (PTA) and key design characteristics of PTAs for the distribution of environmental burdens among trading countries. In addition, using survey experiments, she investigates the micro-level foundations of the environment-trade nexus by examining how citizens evaluate patterns of environmental footprint allocation, how this affects their trade policy preferences, and what their attitudes and preferences concerning policies that could mitigate their country's foreign environmental footprint are.
Rachel Schoner is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. Her research explores non-state actor access in international institutions and the role individuals play in global politics. Her dissertation analyzes how political actors mobilize in international legal institutions to change the behavior of repressive governments and improve respect for human rights. She uses a variety of methods in her research including collection of original data, elite interviews, qualitative case studies, and cross-national quantitative analysis. Before pursuing her Ph.D. at UC San Diego, Rachel received a B.A. in Mathematics & Political Science and M.A. in Political Science from Emory University.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Rachel Stein is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Her research interests include public opinion about foreign policy, the domestic politics of international conflict in democratic states, the role of culture and norms in political processes, and experimental methods. During 2015-2016, as a Visiting Scholar at both the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics and the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, she will be working on a book project examining the American culture of revenge and its effects on public support for the use of military force. A related project, demonstrating that democracies with more vengeful populations are more likely to initiate military conflicts, is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review.
Rachel Wellhausen will receive her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in June 2012 and will start as an Assistant Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin and a faculty affiliate at the McCombs School of Business in 2013. Rachel's primary field of interest is the political economy of international investment and finance. Her dissertation examines the conditions under which emerging economy governments maintain or break the contracts they enter into with foreign investors. She finds that investor nationality is a key determinant of contract sanctity. Governments that host investors from a greater diversity of countries gain space to trade off contract sanctity in favor of domestic goals. Rachel's regional expertise is in Eastern Europe, and she has published on the political economy of emerging technologies. Rachel earned an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and three B.A. degrees from the University of Arizona.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of Politics and Public and International Affairs Department of Politics and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Ralph Ossa will receive a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science this summer. He will be a joint fellow of the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance and the International Economics Section. Ralph's research focuses on international trade and economic development. Currently, he is working on a new theory of the World Trade Organization (WTO) which helps in evaluating some core WTO principles from an economic perspective.
Rana B. Khoury is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science and graduate fellow of the Buffett Institute at Northwestern University. Her research interests include contentious politics, displacement, international aid, and Middle East politics. Her dissertation examines the impacts of international assistance on trajectories of civilian activism in the course of the Syrian conflict. Rana has studied or conducted fieldwork in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey, and uses multiple methods to answer her research questions. Her work has been published in Perspectives on Politics, Middle East Law and Governance, and Forced Migration Review. She has received support for her research from the Social Science Research Council, the Council for American Overseas Research Centers, and the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius Foundation. Rana holds an M.A. in Arab Studies from Georgetown University and a B.A. in Political Science from American University.
Ranjit Lall is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. Ranjit's research interests are in the areas of international relations and international political economy, with a focus on international institutions, global governance, financial regulation, and quantitative methodology. Ranjit graduated from the University of Oxford (Merton College) with a first-class degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE), winning the Gibbs Prize for best undergraduate thesis in politics. Before coming to Harvard, Ranjit worked as an economist at the Bank of England and an editorial writer at the Financial Times. His research has been published in International Organization, Political Analysis, Comparative Political Studies, Regulation & Governance, and the Review of International Political Economy.
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- Economist at the International Research Unit
Raphael Auer is an economist at the International Research Unit of the Swiss National Bank, which he joined in 2006 after receiving his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT. His research interests cover international trade, open macroeconomics, and economic growth. His recent research analyzes how industrial composition and within-industry firm reallocation respond to trade liberalization when firm's output is differentiated by product characteristics such as quality. A second branch of his research analyzes pricing-to-market decisions of international firms and the effect of import competition on inflation dynamics. Raphael is also a member of the advisory board of walras.org and a research associate at the Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
Raphael Cunha is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at The Ohio State University and currently holds a dissertation fellowship from Brazil's CAPES Foundation/Ministry of Education. Raphael's interests cover international and comparative political economy, with a focus on the politics of financial globalization and sovereign credit risk. His research examines how and why global capital mobility conditions national political and economic events by investigating multiple forms of contagion in the global political economy. Raphael analyzes contagion dynamics from domestic to international investors in global capital market reactions to politics, diffusion processes in governments' decisions to default on sovereign debt, as well as contagion in market assessments of sovereign credit risk induced by investors' use of decision heuristics.
Ren Hongsheng has joined the Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow Programme in 2010. He is working on the "Chinese companies engagement the United Nations Global Compact" in the GLF programme. His research interests include the political economy of FDI, China's Political and Economic Transition, and Asian geopolitics. He holds a PhD in Economics from Nankai University, China. He has worked as a postdoctoral fellow in China University of Political Science and Law from 2005 to 2008. He has been as a visiting scholar at Columbia University in the city of New York, 2008-2009. Prior to coming to Oxford, Ren Hongsheng was an associate professor of International Political Economy at China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing.
Ren Hongsheng is from China. He obtained his doctorate at Nankai University in 2003 and plans to work on the relations between developing countries and multinational enterprises and devising strategies that could enhance the interests of countries and corporations alike.
Renard Sexton is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics at New York University. Renard studies local level conflict across the developing world. Before graduate school, Renard worked for the United Nations and NGOs in Switzerland, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Ecuador, as well as contributing to journalistic outlets. Renard researches how local actors respond strategically to outside intervention, such as development projects, extractive industries projects, aid infusions, or peacekeepers. Renard's work shows how political institutions moderate the effects of such interventions on conflict.
Richard Clark is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University and an incoming Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell University. His research interests include international organizations and the domestic politics of global economic governance. Richard employs mixed methods in his work, including large-n analysis of original data, elite interviews, text analysis, and experimental research designs. His book project entitled "Better Together? How International Organizations Combat Complexity Through Cooperation" investigates the conditions under which overlapping international organizations cooperate and how such cooperation affects their policymaking. His research is published or forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, the Journal of Conflict Resolution and The Washington Post. Before pursuing his Ph.D. at Columbia, Richard received a B.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame.
Sabrina Arias is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in International Relations. Beginning in Fall 2024, She will be an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University. Her research focuses on international organizations, diplomacy, and climate politics. Her research is published in the Journal of Politics and International Studies Quarterly,and her dissertation examines why some small states-like Ireland, Costa Rica, and Liechtenstein-are effective at shaping the United Nations (UN) agenda, even in the face of powerful states' opposition.
Sam van Noort is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge. His research interests lie at the intersection of comparative politics and international political economy, with an emphasis on the domestic and international causes of democratization and democratic backsliding. Ongoing work examines the causal effect of industrialization on transitions to democracy, the conditions under which voters do and do not hold state executives electorally accountable for democratic backsliding, and the influence of the global rise of China, and the relative decline of the US, on democratization prospects in the developing world. Van Noort uses both qualitative and quantitative methods, with a somewhat greater focus on the quantitative tools of causal inference.
Samuel Houskeeper is a Ph.D. candidate in Columbia University's Political Science Department. His work focuses on international political economy, particularly international environmental politics. His dissertation focuses on climate change as an international cooperation and bargaining problem. He is a methodological pluralist, but specializes in quantitative empirics. He holds an M.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from Northwestern University.
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- Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University
Sarah Brooks is a Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University (Ph.D., Duke University) in the Department of Political Science. In the field of international political economy, her research examines the political economy of sovereign risk and global capital flows, most recently focusing on the interaction between investor behavior and government actors in sovereign debt markets. Other recent projects include a series of analyses of the "resource curse," which challenge conventional views of the political and economic effects of natural resource wealth. Her newest extension of this research examines the role of critical minerals and the politics of their development in the green transition. She also has a series of papers on the political effects of risk and insecurity on democratic citizenship in South Africa.
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- Assistant Professor of Political Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business
Saumitra Jha is assistant professor of political economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He received his PhD in Economics from Stanford University in 2006. Saum will be a joint fellow at Princeton during 2012-2013 in both the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP) and the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance. His work this upcoming year will focus on the role of financial innovation and innovators in reducing violent resistance to beneficial reforms. Saum plans to complete a series of papers that culminate in a book, which focuses on the role financial innovations and innovators might play in theory and have played in practice in aligning interests and reducing the incentives for conflict.
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- Assistant Professor and Researcher at Université Ouaga II, Burkina Faso
Seydou Ouedraogo is Assistant Professor and Researcher at Université Ouaga II, Burkina Faso, and Coordinator of FREE Afrik, an independent research institution based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. He is an economist who received his training in African (Burkina Faso and Benin) and French (Université d'Auvergne/CERDI) Universities. His research concerns banking and monetary economy, development strategies, and economy of culture. He co-founded, with other economists, the Institute FREE Afrik, an independent research institution on West African economies, where he leads the research team of the Institute. Dr Ouedraogo also acts as a consultant for international and African public and private institutions, offering his expertise, on a volunteer basis, to cultural and civil society actors and cultural organizations.
Shahrzad Sabet received in May 2014 her Ph.D. from the Department of Government at Harvard University. She is an associate of Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science. She specializes in international political economy, with an emphasis on political psychology and experimental methods. Her dissertation research investigates the micro-foundations of public opinion toward economic globalization. She is especially interested in identifying the role and effect of non-material factors such as prejudice and nationalism in the formation of public opinion, and in reconciling the effect of these symbolic factors with conventional, self-interest-based models of individual preferences in political economy. One of her recent papers, "Feelings First: Non-Material Factors as Moderators of Self-Interest Effects on Trade Preferences," was awarded the 2013 Carl Beck Award for best graduate student paper presented at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA).
Shana R. Marshall is a PhD Candidate in International Relations and Comparative Politics at the University of Maryland with a concentration on political economy of the Middle East. Her dissertation, "From Oil to Offsets: Rentier State Innovation and the Endurance of Authoritarianism in the Middle East" examines how the region's regimes are tapping into their trade with Western defense firms in order to secure new rents and deliver crucial patronage to pro-regime constituencies. Her work has appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle East Policy and Political Studies. Research interests include Comparative and International Political Economy, Middle East Politics, U.S. Foreign Policy, and the Politics of Military and Security Institutions. Shana is a 2003 graduate of Hanover College.
A. Kadir Yildirim obtained his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Ohio State University in August of 2010. His main research interests center around economic liberalization, democratization and political Islam. Kadir's dissertation, entitled Muslim Democratic Parties: Economic Liberalization and Islamist Moderation in the Middle East, explores the socioeconomic origins of the different pathways that Islamic parties pursue as viable political parties. In his research, Kadir analyzes the distinctive forms that economic liberalization has taken in the Middle East, and offers a new theory on the impact of such distinctive liberalizations over the moderation of Islamist parties by focusing on Egypt, Morocco and Turkey. Currently, he works on two ongoing projects examining the Muslim democratic JDP government's effect on the level of anti-Americanism in Turkey, and the implications for the trading patterns of Turkey globally.
Sichen Li is a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. Her scholarly interests are centered on the politics of trade and cross-border investment, with a particular focus on how great power competition shapes governments' role in trade and investment policymaking. Li's dissertation…
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- Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University
Sigrun Kahl is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Sigrun studies how long-term comparative historical factors such as religion shape current policies and institutions for addressing, among other things, poverty, unemployment, education, and abortion. Among courses Sigrun teaches are Welfare States Across Nations, Religion and Politics, and Historical and Archival Methods. Sigrun is co-director of the MacMillan Center Initiative on Religion, Politics, and Society and co-runs the Yale Political Science Department's Comparative Politics Workshop.
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- Associate Professor in Political Science
Simone Dietrich is Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Professor Dietrich studies foreign aid and the role of international organizations in world politics. Her book, States, Markets, and Foreign Aid, appeared with Cambridge University Press in 2021. Her current research project examines whether powerful donors can push their political objectives through seemingly more technical processes like the OECD DAC`s peer review system and whether peer review can exert an independent influence on member state practices. She is a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University (2011-2012). She received her PhD from the Pennsylvania State University in 2011.
Simone Dietrich received her Ph.D. in political science from Penn State University in 2011. In her research, she is working on developing a general theory about the politics of aid giving among OECD donors and how it has changed over time. At the heart of the theory is the decision-calculus of donors whose goal is to maximize aid success in the recipient country. Specifically, she explores donor decisions about how to deliver aid, with possible delivery channels including recipient governments, NGOs, multilateral organizations, and private contractors. Her argument posits that outcome-oriented donors opt for delivery channels that increase aid effectiveness ex ante: while they prefer to cooperate with governments in countries with good governance, they bypass governments in poorly governed aid receiving countries. Her research also shows that donor selectivity in aid delivery channels reduces poverty in developing countries, as measured by infant health.
Sonal Pandya will recieve a PhD in Political Science from Harvard University in the summer of 2007. Following her fellowship year she will join the faculty of the University of Virginia. Sonal's research examines the intersection of international integration and economic development. Her current research focuses on the regulation of foreign direct investment; other research interests include political risk and financial crises, firm-level studies of political behavior, and global public health.
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- Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota
Xun Cao is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. His dissertation research studies networks of international political economy such as trade, transnational capital flows, IGO connections, migration, and how network dynamics at international level can be used to explain behaviors of embedded national economies such as convergence and divergence of domestic economic policies. His substantive research interests also include inter and intra state conflicts and political geography. Xun's research in quantitative methodology focuses on latent space model of network analysis and spatial models. His publications include: "Protecting Jobs in the Age of Globalization: Examining the Relative Salience of Social Welfare and Industrial Subsidies in OECD Countries," with Aseem Prakash and Mike Ward, International Studies Quarterly, June 2007, and "Disputes, Democracies, and Dependencies: A Re-examination of the Kantian Peace," with Mike Ward and Randolph Siverson, American Journal of Political Science, July 2007.
Songying Fang is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. Her research areas are international relations, political economy, applied game theory, and quantitative methodology. Her current research focuses on how international institutions, without strong enforcement mechanisms, can nevertheless influence state behavior. She is also interested in institutions more broadly, and is working on projects that explore security alliance, state building, and US Supreme Court. While at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, she will examine the mechanisms through which international institutions could influence the behavior of non-democracies.
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- Assistant Professor of Government and Politics at the University
- Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science
Soo Yeon Kim is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University and a B.A. in Political Science and International Studies from Yonsei University. Professor Kim's research and teaching areas are International Political Economy, International Political Economy of Asia, and Research Methods, with a specialization in trade politics. She is the author of Power and the Governance of Global Trade (2011, Series in Political Economy, Cornell University Press). Her current research focuses on free trade agreements in Asia and on rising powers in the global economy.
Soo Yeon Kim is an Assistant Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. Soo Yeon received her Ph.D. from Yale University and B.A. from Yonsei University. Her research areas are IPE, international security, quantitative methodology, and East Asian security and political economy. Her current research focuses on the impact of power politics on the evolution of the GATT/WTO. While at the Center for Globalization and Governance, Soo Yeon will work on a project on trade multilateralism, analyzing measures of multilateralism, the diversion effects of preferential trading arrangements, and U.S. trade patterns since the end of the Cold War.
Soohyun Cho is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science with a graduate minor in Applied Statistics from Ohio State University. Her research interests are at the intersection of international political economy, gender politics, and political methodology. Specifically, she explores the relationships between economic globalization and domestic labor markets, with a focus on firms' and workers' responses to economic globalization and the diffusion of social responsibility norms in supply chains. She is currently investigating gender gaps in attitudes towards trade, automation, and refugees, and corporate social responsibility and firms' obfuscation in supply chains. Her work has been supported by the Fulbright Fellowship, Presidential Fellowship at Ohio State, and APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in Political Science from Seoul National University. In the fall of 2024, Soohyun will be joining Bowdoin College as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and Legal Studies.
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- Senior Research Scholar Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Stephen Kaplan will receive his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in August 2009. The guiding question shaping his research agenda is whether markets and democracy are compatible in an age of financial globalization. His dissertation, entitled From Spendthrifts to Misers: Globalization and Opportunistic Politicians, examines this question by exploring Latin American economic policymaking behavior in a globalized world. Stephen offers a new theory, based on a structural change in global finance, to explain the demise of "economic populism" and political business cycles in the region. To test his theory, he employs a multi-method approach, using both large-N statistical work and a comparative case study analysis of three South American countries: Argentina, Chile, and Venezuela. Before returning to academia, Stephen worked as an economist in the Development Studies and Foreign Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Following his fellowship year, Stephen will join the faculty of George Washington University's Department of Political Science and Elliott School of International Affairs.
Stephen Wertheim is a doctoral candidate in History at Columbia University. He specializes in the history of international society and U.S. foreign relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with an emphasis on concepts of politics and law.
He is currently completing his dissertation, entitled Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy in World War II. It examines how American policy elites first conceived that their nation should attain political and military preeminence across the globe and retain it as long as possible, even though such an objective had previously seemed all but unthinkable and certainly un-American and anti-internationalist. Stephen has published scholarly articles in Diplomatic History, Journal of Global History, Journal of Genocide Research, and Presidential Studies Quarterly, in addition to writing for The Nation and other journalistic venues. Stephen received an MPhil from Columbia University in 2011 and an AB summa cum laude from Harvard University in 2007.
Steven Han is a PhD student in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He is interested in the politics of technological change, automation, and climate change. Before coming to Princeton, he received a BA and MA in Political Science from the University of Toronto.
Susan Hyde is currently in her second year as an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. Her broader research agenda explores how international politics influence domestic politics with the majority of her research thus far focusing on international democracy promotion, which represents a direct attempt by international actors to change the course of domestic politics. In addition to her book project on international election monitoring, Susan will spend time on two other projects: (1) examining the global spread of elections and (2) running field experiments that test whether international election observers reduce election day fraud or otherwise influence the electoral process.
Tana Johnson (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is working on a book manuscript, Rethinking Non-State Actors: The Role and Impact of International Bureaucrats in Institutional Design. It points out that design suggestions, and even initial demands for new institutions, frequently come from staff of existent intergovernmental organizations. International bureaucrats participated in creating prominent organizations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations Development Program, the International Energy Agency, and many others. Johnson was a research fellow in Vanderbilt University's Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in 2009-2010, and in summer 2011 she will join Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy as an assistant professor.
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- Assistant Professor in the Government Department at the University
Terrence Chapman is an assistant professor in the Government Department at the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently working on a book manuscript titled Securing Approval: the Politics of Multilateral Authorization, which investigates why governments frequently seek multilateral approval for foreign policies. His other work examines the relationship between international financial markets and civil unrest and the strategic uses of international organizations in crisis bargaining. His work has been published or is forthcoming in International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Tetsekela Anyiam-Osigwe is a Ph.D. student in the Politics Department at Princeton, specialising in International Relations. Before Princeton, she received a BSc in Politics and International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and an MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy from the…
Theo Serlin is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Stanford University, studying international and comparative political economy. His research integrates economic geography into political economy models of policy preferences and electoral politics. Accounting for variation in the efficiency of government provision between rural and urban areas and migration as a mechanism of economic adjustment generates new and often counter-intuitive predictions about political alignments and reactions to economic change. He tests these theories using newly-digitized historical data and modern causal inference methods. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review and received the David A. Lake Award for best paper presented at the 2022 meeting of the International Political Economy Society. Theo graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 2018 with an A.B. in History and received a M.A. in Economics from Stanford in 2022.
Thomas Flaherty is a Ph.D. candidate and NSF Graduate Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He received a B.A. in political science from UCLA in 2014. His research applies economic geography theories and big data to understand the politics of globalization. His dissertation shows how voters' limited geographic mobility drives populist responses to trade shocks. He has published in International Organization, Economics & Politics, and The Review of International Organizations.
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- Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indiana University
Tim Bartley is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indiana University-Bloomington. He received his PhD from the University of Arizona. His research examines the rise of transnational private regulation of labor and environmental conditions. Comparing across cases, this work seeks to explain the emergence of new regulatory fields and to untangle the complex and evolving relationships between public and private forms of governance. His publications include "Certifying Forests and Factories: States, Social Movements, and the Rise of Private Regulation in the Apparel and Forest Products Fields" (Politics & Society), "Corporate Accountability and the Privatization of Labor Standards: Struggles over Codes of Conduct in the Apparel Industry" (Research in Political Sociology), and "Regulating American Industries" (with Marc Schneiberg, American Journal of Sociology).
Tobias Hofmann is a PhD candidate at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin and an associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. His research focus is on the political economics of regional integration and macroeconomic policy. Tobias' dissertation examines how national political institutions constrain policy change induced by Regional Integration Agreements, econometrically testing the empirical implications of theoretical modeling. He also works on violations of international legal commitments, connecting issues of intergovernmental bargaining and decision-making to subsequent domestic implementation and compliance problems.
Tonya Putnam has a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Her dissertation, "Courts Without Borders: The Politics and Law of Extraterritorial Regulation" explores the role of domestic courts and regulatory institutions in the development of international regulatory rules and regimes. Her other current research interests include understanding how international law affects the formation of identities and preferences in international relations, and the challenges associated with establishing justice institutions in post-conflict transitions.
Tuan-Hwee Sng is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University. His research interests include economic history and political economy. His dissertation examines how geographic size shaped fiscal possibilities and the quality of governance in late imperial China, and whether this can help to explain China's developmental trajectory during the age of industrialization. Tuan-Hwee earned his B.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and his M.A. in Economics from Northwestern University. Between 2002 and 2005, he worked in China as a foreign correspondent for a Singapore newspaper.
Valéria Guimarães de Lima e Silva, a Brazilian national, is an Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. Her current research focuses on International Economic Law and Policy analysis, more specifically on the intersection between International Trade, Intellectual Property Rights, Competition Law and Health. She is currently researching the politics and law of border measures for the protection of Intellectual Property Rights. During the first year of the Fellowship at the University of Oxford, Valéria researched abusive ('sham') litigation in the pharmaceutical sector. Valéria's fields of expertise are International Trade Law, Competition Law, Intellectual Property Rights and Public International Law. Before joining the GLF Programme, Valéria worked for the Brazilian Competition Authority (CADE) as Chief of Staff and International Adviser, where she assisted the Presidency in various matters and was in charge of the International Department of the authority. She previously served as a Blue Book trainee in the European Commission's DG Competition in Brussels. She has also worked in Taipei as a legal counsel for a Taiwanese biotechnology company, and as a lawyer and team manager for a branch of a business law firm in Rio de Janeiro. She started her career as a lawyer in the second largest Intellectual Property Law firm of Latin America. Valéria received her PhD in International Law from the University of Sao Paulo in 2004. Her PhD thesis undertook a comparative analysis of extraterritorial jurisdiction in competition laws of the US, European Union and Brazil, and assessed the viability of regulating competition law internationally in the WTO. Her thesis was unanimously recommended for publication by the Board of Examiners and was published as a book in Brazil in 2006. She also holds a Masters in International Trade Law and Economics from the World Trade Institute, in Berne, Switzerland, where she has graduated with a Summa cum Laude degree. Valéria is fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish and has a working knowledge of French and German, as well as a basic knowledge of Italian.
Valéria Guimarães de Lima e Silva is from Brazil. She holds a PhD degree in International Law from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and a Masters in International Law and Economics from the World Trade Institute, Switzerland. More recently, she was in charge of the International Advisory Department of the Brazilian competition authority CADE, where she has previously held the position of Chief of Staff. She worked as a Bluebook Trainee at the European Commission, DG Competition. She has previously worked as an attorney for the second largest Intellectual Property law firm of Latin America, as well as branch manager of a law firm in the city of Rio de Janeiro. While living in Taiwan she has worked as legal counsel for a Taiwanese biotechnology company. She plans to work with International Economic Law, focusing on competition and international trade issues.
Vincent Heddesheimer is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He studies the politics of economic change in established democracies. More specifically, Heddesheimer works on the party politics and electoral consequences of capital ownership, housing financialization, and labor market…
Vineeta Yadav holds an MA in Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and will receive a PhD in Political Science from Yale University this summer. Her research interests are in comparative politics, international economics, and the political economy of economic development. Her dissertation research focuses on the institutional foundations and political and policy impact of special interest group behavior in information-poor developing countries. She is currently working on an empirical study of interest group behavior in Brazil, China, and India, using original data from a survey of business groups in these countries. She will be extending her study to the micro-foundations of policymaking for trade, taxation, labor and credit policies for these countries. She will also explore the role that institutional incentives and informational asymmetries play in driving the choice of interest groups to engage in legitimate lobbying or corrupt practices.
Yonatan Lupu will receive his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California - San Diego in June, 2012. His research interests include international law and institutions, courts, interdependence, and network theory. His dissertation analyzes how domestic political institutions condition the effects of commitments to international agreements on government policy. His work has been published or is forthcoming at the British Journal of Political Science, American Journal of International Law, International Security, and Security Studies. Lupu holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. In the summer of 2013, he will join the department of Political Science at the George Washington University as an assistant professor.
Yueyi Li is a PhD candidate in Politics at Princeton University. Her research focuses on industrial policies, and geopolitical risk within the broader field of international political economy, employing causal inference as her primary method alongside survey experiments, text analysis, social network analysis, and other quantitative techniques. Yueyi's work delves into trade politics, economic statecraft, and state repression, with a particular emphasis on how political aid cycles and censorship diffusion influence both international and domestic policies, especially in relation to China's strategic approaches. Her research has received grants from the Center for International Security Studies (CISS) and the Program for Quantitative and Analytical Political Science (QAPS). Previous to Princeton, she has interned at Xinhua News Agency and the Financial Times. Yueyi holds a double B.A. in Journalism and International Relations from Renmin University of China and an M.A. in Political Science from Duke University.
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- Graduate Student, Department of Politics
Zarlasht M. Razeq received her Ph.D. in Political Science (IR) from McGill University in the Fall of 2023. Her research interests are in the IPE of trade, GVCs, and FDI. Her dissertation examined the effect of trade institutions (deep PTAs) on global value chains (GVCs) at the country and firm levels. Her current projects expand on her dissertation research and focus on MNCs' supply chain networks, FDI and climate change, and the role of international trade institutions in supply chain resilience. In 2022, her work won the UNCTAD & the Academy of International Business Award for Best Research on Investment and Development(Link is external). In the 2023/2024 academic year, she was a Research Fellow at the Warwick Business School U.K., where she worked on the analysis of supply chains and FDI. In 2023, she served as a consultant for UNCTAD's Division on Investment and Enterprise in Geneva. Zarlasht also holds an M.A. in International Development and an M.A. in International Affairs, specializing in global political economy (GPE).
Ze Han is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. His research interests include foreign direct investment (FDI), populism, China, and text analysis, with a focus on the political consequences of economic globalization. He earned a B.A. in International Politics from the University…
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- Assistant Professor at the School of International and Public
Zheng Chen is an Assistant Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a second year Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow. His current research centers on China and other rising powers' efforts in reforming regional orders and global economic governance. His book, Rising Power and the Construction of International Human Rights Norms (Shanghai Renmin Publishing House, 2017, in Chinese), examines the status incentive and rhetoric strategies of rising powers in promotion of international human rights norms developments. His work has been published in International Studies Review, Chinese Journal of International Politics and Journal of Contemporary China. Chen earned his PhDs from the Double Doctoral Degree Program between Peking University (China) and Waseda University (Japan).
Zoe Ge is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at New York University. She studies international political economy and international organizations (IOs), using formal models and a range of quantitative methods. The first strand of her research examines the institutional design of global health governance with an emphasis on the World Health Organization (WHO). Drawing on fieldwork at the WHO headquarters, Zoe investigates whether weak IOs like the WHO can facilitate deeper cooperation from their members. The second strand of her research explores how global value chains (GVCs) affect the evolution of international institutions. Her other research considers firms' influence in the era of rising trade barriers.
Zuhad Hai is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Stanford University and an incoming Assistant Professor of Politics at New York University. He studies how societies manage -- or fail to manage -- industrial and technological change in a globalized world. One stream of his research agenda looks at how political institutions mediate the politics of industrial rise and decline. Another stream looks at how scientific change affects international cooperation over environmental issues such as climate change. His research has been published in the Journal of Politics and Science Advances. Before his Ph.D., Zuhad worked at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He holds a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Grinnell College and an MA in International Relations from the University of Chicago.