James Bennett Associate Professor, Political Science Department Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Jim Bennett, professor of Political Science and International Relations at Maxwell, is famous among generations of IR students for his alien anthropologist who lends new perspective to the world from the back row of the Theories of IR classroom. As evidenced by his homepage, Dr. Bennett is a great storyteller, with years of experience as fodder. He has worked for the Peace Corps in Eastern Turkey , as a private sector consultant on national and corporate R&D policy, and for Senator Fullbright. He has taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, U Penn, Yale, and now Maxwell. He’s written articles on such topics as global political modeling, dynamical political-economic systems, the design and analysis of historical data, and methodologies for resource allocation. Dr. Bennett received his BA degree with honors in Government from Harvard College in 1968, and for his PhD dissertation in Political Science at MIT he won a national prize from the American Political Science Association. He lives on Seneca Lake near the site of a large Seneca Indian village, where he hosts big welcoming picnics for all of the International Relations students every year. » More Info...   Matt Bonham Professor, Chair of the International Relations program, Political Science, International Relations Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium G. Matthew (Matt) Bonham is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the International Relations Program. His research interests include information technology and the development of computer simulation models of foreign policy decision-making. He is currently working in the area of comparative e-government. Bonham offers courses on international relations theory and the analysis of political texts, as well as workshops on writing hypertext, policy advocacy through the Web, video-conferencing for global governance, and simulation design for conflict resolution. He earned a Ph. D. in Political Science from M.I.T. » More Info...   Stuart Brown Professor, Economics and International Relations Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Stuart Brown is a Professor of Economics and International Relations and Senior Research Associate of The Moynihan Institute at the Maxwell School. Professor Brown began teaching at Smith College before taking a position at Georgetown University as a specialist on centrally planned economies and the transition from socialism to capitalism in Eastern Europe. In 1993 he joined the International Monetary Fund, where he participated in negotiations on macroeconomic stabilization programs in Bulgaria, Macedonia and other Eastern European countries. He left the IMF to accept a position in London as the head of emerging market research at two leading investment banks where he worked on a bond trading floor for the last 6 years. At Maxwell he will be offering specialized courses in international economics including the macroeconomics of developing and transition economies and financial crisis in emerging markets. In addition to teaching and research at Maxwell, he directs two inter-disciplinary projects, one on non-government organizations and the other, involving a new dual masters degree program in economics and international relations. His current research interests include financial crisis in emerging markets and US global hegemony in international relations.   Bruce Dayton Assistant Professor, Political Science Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Bruce Dayton is the Associate Director of the Moynihan Institute and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School where he specializes in conflict studies, crisis management, and global environmental politics. He has been active in community-based advocacy work and was a practitioner with the Boston-based Center for Policy Negotiation. Dayton currently heads a project to evaluate the impact of third-party interventions on intractable identity-based conflicts, which received funding from the United States Institute of Peace. He also co-directs an initiative to train Maxwell graduate students in a comparative case-study methodology focusing on crisis management. In January of 2005 Dayton was elected to serve as the Executive Director of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP). Dayton recently published “Managing Crises in the Twenty First Century”. He has also authored “Policy Frames, Policy Making and the Global Climate Discourse,” and is the associate editor of Social Conflict and Collective Identity. Bruce holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Syracuse University and an MA in Political Science from the University of Nebraska.   Johan Eliasson Doctoral Student, Political Science Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Research Summary: Since 1999 the militarily neutral members of the European Union have begun to accept policies and engage in activities previously deemed unacceptable. His research uses a historical institutional framework focusing on institutions (rules, norms, habits) and how this favors certain groups and their ideas, leading to a path-dependent development. The Goekjian grant enabled him to do archival research and conduct interviews that provide support for two main arguments. First, Britain’s 1998 shift from opposition to support for common EU defense policies was a path-altering strategic decision, following which institutional developments gained pace. These developments have led neutral members’ altered defense policies. Secondly, differences in neutral members’ responses to similar external stimuli can be explained by looking at the nature of their respective neutrality. Distinguishing between ideologically rooted neutrality in Sweden, and pragmatic, realist-based neutrality in Finland, examples are given of how (formal and informal) institutional structures lead to different policy reactions. Johan hopes to expand this research to Ireland and Austria after completing his dissertation.   James Glassman Assistant Professor, Geography Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Dr. James (Jim) Glassman is an assistant professor of geography at The Maxwell School. He is a scholar of international political economy and Pacific rim Asia. Before coming to the Maxwell School Jim received his B.A from St. Olaf College, and two PhDs in philosophy and geography from the University of Minnesota. He also was a faculty member at the philosophy department at Metro State University, Minneapolis, Minnesota and a research associate for the Minnesota Food Association. At Maxwell, he is a popular teacher of courses on development and urbanization. Dr. Glassman, in the past, was a jazz drummer. Jim Glassman is a committee member for The Moynihan Institute's East and South East Asia project, still in its early stages. » More Info...   Vernon Greene Professor, Public Administration Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Professor Greene’s research interests include health policy, program evaluation, quantitative methods, aging and social policy, administrative theory, and quantitative methods. He has written on a book entitled Economic Security and Intergenerational Justice: A Look at North America, as well as dozens of articles on social gerontology. Dr. Greene received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana University. He has also taught at the University of Arizona. Here at Maxwell, he's famous for his statistics course.   Wayne Grove Instructor, Economics Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Wayne Grove, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, is a specialist in economic history and economic development, with a particular interest in economic education research and technological change in labor-intensive processes. . He is an expert on the history of the American cotton industry and agricultural economic history.He teaches courses in managerial economics, American economic history, and international economics. Dr. Grove completed his Ph.D. at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2000, after completing an M.S. in International studies at American University with a focus on International economics and Latin America. He has also taught at Colgate University and the College of William and Mary. » More Info...   Margaret (Peg) Hermann Professor, Political Science Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Margaret (Peg) Hermann is Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs and Director of The Moynihan Institute of the Maxwell School. Her research focuses on political leadership, foreign policy decision making, and the comparative study of foreign policy. Hermann has worked to develop techniques for assessing the leadership styles of heads of government at a distance and currently has such data on 130 leaders. She has been president of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) and the International Studies Association (ISA) as well as editor of the journal, Political Psychology. At present she is editor of the International Studies Review, a journal of the ISA, and Advances in Political Psychology, an annual sponsored by ISPP. She developed the Summer Institute in Political Psychology and was its director for nine years. Her books include The Psychological Examination of Political Leaders; Describing Foreign Policy Behavior; Political Psychology: Issues and Problems; and Leaders, Groups, and Coalitions: Understanding the People and Processes in Foreign Policymaking. Among her journal articles are “Presidents, Advisers, and Foreign Policy,” “Leadership Styles of Prime Ministers,” “Rethinking Democracy and International Peace: Perspectives from Political Psychology,” “International Decision Making: Leadership Matters,” “Ballots, a Barrier Against the Use of Bullets and Bombs,” and “The US Use of Military Intervention to Promote Democracy: Evaluating the Record.” Hermann received her Ph.D. in psychology from Northwestern University.   Melvyn Levitsky Ambassador and Professor, International Relations and Public Administration Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Ambassador Melvyn Levitsky, Professor of International Relations and Public Administration, recently retired as a Career Minister in the U.S. Foreign Service and one of the country’s most senior diplomats. A Distinguished Fellow at The Moynihan Institute and a Professorial Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Ambassador Levitsky is a favorite among students interested in issues of national security. His courses have such intriguing titles as U.S. National Security: Defense and Foreign policy; Environment, Population, Refugees, and Human Rights; Drugs Crime and Terrorism (affectionately called “Drugs and Thugs” by his students); and Post-Cold War Issues in Diplomacy and Statecraft. During his 35-year career as a U.S. diplomat, Ambassador Levitsky was Ambassador to Brazil from 1994-98 and before that held such senior positions as Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters, Executive Secretary of the State Department, Ambassador to Bulgaria, Deputy Director of the Voice of America, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights. Ambassador Levitsky also served as Director of the State Department’s Office of UN Political Affairs and as Officer-in-Charge of U.S.-Soviet Bilateral Relations. Earlier in his career he was political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and a consul at U.S. Consulates in Belem, Brazil and Frankfurt, Germany. » More Info...   Mary Lovely Associate Professor, Maxwell School Economics Department Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Mary Lovely, Associate Professor of Economics and International Relations Faculty Associate at the Maxwell School, teaches course in international trade and finance, trade theory and policy. Her fields are international and public economics, and her research interests include optimal policy with increasing returns, interregnal differences in wages. Prior to teaching at S.U., Lovely received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1989, and a Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from Harvard in 1980. In the interim, she worked with Charles River Associates as the principal investigator for evaluations of federally funded urban transportation demonstration programs. Dr. Lovely’s publications cover a range of topics, from cross-border tax evasion, to the implications of the Uruguay Round for federal tax policies, to trade flows and wage premiums. » More Info...   John McPeak Professor, Public Administration and Economics Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium John McPeak is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Administration, with a joint appointment in the Economics department. He joined the faculty in fall of 2002, after completing three years as a post doctoral research associate in northern Kenya with Cornell University and the Pastoral Risk Management Project of Global Livestock Collaborative Research Support Program. Prior to this he was a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin - Madison in the Applied Economics department. He has worked on agricultural and development issues in Kenya, Ethiopia, Mali, and Senegal. He is currently principal investigator on the USAID funded project "Livestock Marketing in Kenya and Ethiopia" (GL-CRSP), co-PI on the USAID funded project "Improving Pastoral Risk Management in East African Rangelands" (GL-CRSP), and team member of the USAID funded "Rural Markets, Natural Capital, and Dynamic Poverty Traps in East Africa" (BASIS-CRSP). To date, he has published four articles in refereed journals and five technical reports. As a graduate of Jordan-Elbridge High School who was born at St. Joseph's hospital, he continues to be amazed that his personal long and winding road has led him back to CNY!   Devashish Mitra Associate Professor, Economics Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Devashish Mitra is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA. He received his PhD in Economics from Columbia University in 1996. His research and teaching interests are in International Trade, Political Economy and Development Economics. He has worked on the role of politics in general and of interest groups in particular in the determination of trade policy and on the impact of trade on productivity growth and labor market outcomes. He is currently working on trade and inequality and issues relating to unilateralism versus reciprocity in freeing international trade. His work has been published in top journals like the American Economic Review, the Review of Economics & Statistics, the Journal of International Economics and the Journal of Development Economics » More Info...   Milton Mueller Associate Professor, School of Information Studies Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Professor Mueller is Program Director of the Graduate Program in Telecommunications and Network Management at the School of Information Studies, as well as Director of The Convergence Center. His research interests include international telecommunications policy and digital governance. He has also taught at Rutgers University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Dr. Mueller has consulted with New World Telephone, Hong Kong, on interconnection; AT&T Law and Government Affairs on access charges; The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on telecommunications and transportation; and The World Bank on the Telecommunications Supervision Mission in the Peoples Republic of China, among others. Dr. Mueller received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School of Communications, and a B.A. in Animation and Filmmaking from Columbia College, Chicago.   Beverley Mullings Assistant Professor, Geography Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Beverley Mullings is an Assistant Professor of Geography at The Maxwell School. Her research interests include globalisation and industrial change in developing countries; international trade in services; telecommunications and information technology in the Caribbean; and women, work and industrial change. Prof. Mullings completed a Ph.D. at McGill University in 1996, after earning a M.Sc. at the London School of Economics and a B. A., University of West Indies (Mona, Jamaica). She has also worked with The Open University, UK , and the World Bank. Professor Mullings teaches a standing-room-only course on theories of development, as well as a team-taught course with Prof. Susan Wadley on gender and development. She has published on topics ranging from tourism and the sex trade to Jamaica’s export information services. » More Info...   Mitchell Orenstein Associate Professor, Political Science Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Mitchell Orenstein teaches European and transnational politics, with an emphasis on democratic transitions in former communist Central and Eastern Europe. Orenstein has published widely on the politics of economic reform and welfare state development in the postcommunist countries. He is the author of Out of the Red: Building Capitalism and Democracy in Postcommunist Europe (University of Michigan Press 2001), co-author of Roma in an Expanding Europe: Breaking the Poverty Cycle (World Bank 2003) and co-editor of Pension Reform in Europe: Process and Progress (World Bank 2003). His articles have appeared in Europe-Asia Studies, East European Politics and Societies, SAIS Review, East European Constitutional Review, and Problems of Postcommunism. Orenstein's current research analyzes pension privatization as an example of global public policy development and diffusion. » More Info...   Binnur Ozkececi-Taner Post Doctorate Fellow, European Programs Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Binnur Ozkececi-Taner completed her Ph.D. in Political Science at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University and holds an MA in Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies from the Kroc Institute for Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame. Binnur received her BA in International Relations from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1998. In her research, Binnur focuses on the role of ideas in International Relations and Comparative Politics, European integration, coalition government policymaking and foreign policy decision-making. Her dissertation, titled, The Role of Ideas in Coalition Government Foreign Policymakign: Turkey as an Example, 1991-2002, examined the role of institutionalized ideas in coalition foreign policymaking. Specifically, her dissertation revealed the importance of 'battle of ideas' in foreign policymaking where the authority to decide was within the collective leadership of autonomous actors. Binnur's research has been published in Foreign Policy (Ankara, Turkey), Turkish Studies and Perceptions. She has numerous bookreviews appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies and Turkish Studies. Binnur has also been the assistant editor of the International Studies Review since 2002 (her term ends in December 2004). In addition to her research and service activities Binnur has taught undergraduate courses, including Political Conflict, and led sections, including Political Theory, Introduction to International Relations, Philosophy of Law, Negotiation, and Introduction to Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and the Syracuse University. She will be teaching Introduction to International Relations (freshmen level) and European Integration (junior level) at the Syracuse University in the Spring of 2005. » More Info...   Craig Parsons Assistant Professor, Political Science Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Craig Parsons is Director of the Maxwell European Union Center and Assistant Professor of Political Science. After receiving a B.A in international relations from Stanford University, he studied at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris, France and earned his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley, California in 1999. His research interests concern the institutionalization of ideas in political arenas, and to date have largely focused on these processes in the construction of the European Union. His new work addresses similar themes in European democratization in the 19th and early 20th centuries. His first book, A Certain Idea of Europe,was published by Cornell University Press's Political Economy series in 2003. He has also published work in International Organization, the Journal of Common Market Studies, the European Journal of International Relations, German Politics & Society, and other journals.   Robert Rubinstein Professor, Anthropology and International Relations Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Robert Rubinstein is Professor of Anthropology and of International Relations, as well as Director of the Maxwell School’s Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts. Professor Rubinstein's research interests are in three areas: (1) political anthropology, especially the study of international security, cross-cultural negotiation and conflict resolution; (2) medical anthropology, focusing on integrating anthropological and epidemiological approaches in the context of international health; and, (3) anthropological theory and method, especially in philosophy of science and the history of anthropology. He has done fieldwork on multilateral peacekeeping and on community-based health initiatives in urban and rural Egypt, urban United States, Belize, Central America, Yucatan, Mexico. In the Maxwell School, Dr. Rubinstein teaches a wide variety of courses, including Culture and Conflict Resolution, Multilateral Peacekeeping, Anthropology and Epidemiology, and Anthropology of Peace and War. He’s also Director of the Institute on Multilateral Peacekeeping and the Co-Director of the Summer Institute on Creative Conflict Resolution. He is the author or editor of five books and more that 50 journal articles and book chapters. Rubinstein received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the State University of New York, Binghamton in 1977. He also received a Ms.P.H. from the University of Illinois School of Public Health in 1983. » More Info...   Tod Rutherford Assistant Professor, Geography Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Dr. Rutherford is an economic geographer with an interest in restructuring, particularly industrial restructuring with a focus on manufacturing (in particular, the automobile industry) and regional change; and on labor market change and policy. He is currently completing a three year project comparing the decentralization of labor market policy in the UK and Canada which addresses the debate on institutions, governance and scale in economic geography. He’s also beginning a project on whether increased free trade under NAFTA is leading to convergence in labor market policies and governance in Canada and the United States. Dr. Rutherford completed his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning at the University of Wales, Cardiff, and his M.A. and B.A at Queens University. » More Info...   Hans Peter Schmitz Assistant Professor, Political Science, Maxwell School Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Hans Peter Schmitz received his Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Before joining the Maxwell faculty he was a lecturer in the Human Rights Program at The University of Chicago. His research interests include the role of non-state actors in global affairs, the transnational dimensions of democratization, and the emergence of human rights as a global issue area. He is the author of ‘Transnational Mobilization and Domestic Regime Change. Africa in Comparative Perspective’ (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006). His articles have appeared in the International Studies Review, the Zeitschrift fuer Internationale Beziehungen, Vereinte Nationen as well as several edited volumes. His current research focuses on the legitimacy and accountability of transnational non-governmental actors. » More Info...   Larry Schroeder Professor, Public Administration Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Larry Schroder is a professor of Public Administration, whose research focuses on local government finance, tax analysis and financial management in developing countries. He has written extensively on infrastructure policies, government decentralization, tax reform , budgeting and public finance in developing countries. He has had an illustrious professional background being associated with Georgia State University, Indiana University and Universiti Sains Malaysia. He has extensive international field experience in a variety of countries in Asia. He is affiliated with American European Association, American Society for Public Administration and many other associations. Schroder is also in the International Education committee of National Association of schools of Public affairs and administration. He is also in the editorial board of Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. Schroder has an M A in economics from Northern Illinois University and a PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin. » More Info...   Richard Sherman Assistant Professor, Political Science Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Richard Sherman is an assistant professor of political science whose research focuses on international political economy, international relations theory, comparative political institutions, quantitative methods, and formal theory. Professor Sherman has experience as a consultant in decision analysis and has also thought English in China. After receiving a B.A in political science from the University of Oregon, he earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. » More Info...   Jeremy Shiffman Assistant Professor, Public Administration Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Jeremy Shiffman is assistant professor of public administration. His research focuses on the political dynamics of public health and population policy-making in developing countries. He has published on maternal mortality, family planning, reproductive rights, infectious disease control and health sector reform. Before teaching at Maxwell, he worked in a UNHCR-funded refugee relief agency with Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong, and with the Asia Division of the international public relations firm Burson-Marsteller. He received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Yale University, a master’s degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan in 1999. » More Info...   John Short Professor, Geography Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium John Short is professor of geography who specializes in contemporary environmental issues in the U.S., urban issues, globalization, and Australia. He has written a number of books and many articles on these themes, including Imagined Country (1991), Human Settlement (1993), The Urban Order (1996), Environmental Discourse and Practice (1999), Alternative Geographies (1999), and Globalization and The City (1999). Short’s recent book, Representing The Republic (2001), looks at the mapping of the U.S. from 1600 to 1900. His forthcoming book, The Dialectics of Globalization, to be published in 2001, provides a comprehensive and accessible account of globalization. Short has lived in Australia and written about the Sydney property market as well as on Aboriginal landrights. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Bristol in 1976. » More Info...   Vitor Trindade Assistant Professor, Economics Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Vitor Trindade , an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Maxwell School, is a native of Portugal whose fields are international and development economics. With research interests in networks, coordination failures and exports, and trade and wages, Professor Trindade has focused particularly on China. After completing a B.A. in Modern Chinese at the Beijing Language Institute, he worked as Cultural and Press Attaché at the Embassy of Portugal in Beijing. He then went on to earn an M.S. in Physics from Brown and a Ph.D. in Economics from University of California, San Diego in 2000. Here in Maxwell he teaches courses on international trade and the world economy. » More Info...   Hongying Wang Associate Professor, Political Science Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium Hongying Wang is associate professor of political science at the Maxwell School. Educated at Peking University (BA) and Princeton University (Ph.D), she teaches and writes about East Asian politics and political economy, with an emphasis on China. Her current research projects include 1) the diffusion of international governance norms in China and 2) the concept of soft power in East Asia. » More Info...     Eric Young Graduate Student, SUNY ESF - Forest Resource Management Participant, Global Political Economy Research Consortium