We live in a world of porous borders, in which relations among people, groups, firms, non-governmental organizations, and states create an intricate web of connections. The International Politics program tackles difficult questions about power and rules in this complex environment. The program equips students with theoretical and substantive knowledge about the causes, processes, and consequences of conflict and cooperation as played out on the global stage. The course of study stresses the role of the state and other agents both in traditional diplomatic interactions and in increasingly salient transnational problems and processes.
International Politics faculty:
Tamar Gutner
Program Director
(PhD, MIT)
The performance of international organizations; international financial institutions.
Amitav Acharya
(PhD, Murdoch)
Multilateralism, Southeast Asia, International Relations Theory
Boaz Atzili
(PhD, MIT)
International Security, Territorial Conflicts, Middle East
David Bosco
(JD, Harvard, M.Phil, Cambridge University)
International Governance, International Law, UN Security Council
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
(PhD, Columbia)
Director of General Education
Social and Political Theory, Philosophy of Science, Identity, Agency
Benjamin Jensen
(PhD, AU, ABD)
International Security, Intelligence Studies, and Historical Sociology
Sarah Cleeland Knight
(PhD, Georgetown)
International Political Economy, Trade and Exchange Rate Policy, Research Methods
Daniel Masis-Iverson
(PhD, AU)
International Relations, International Law
Chris Rudolph
(PhD, UCLA)
International Security, International Migration, IPE, International Law
Daniel Schneider
(JD, U. of Wisconsin)
Corruption and Development, Transnational Crime
Celeste Wallander
(PhD, Yale)
International Security, Institutions, Eurasian Security
Paul Williams
(PhD Cambridge, JD, Stanford)
International Law
AFFILIATE FACULTY
C. Randall Henning
(PhD, Tufts)
Politics and institutions of economic policymaking; international and comparative political economy; comparative regionalism.
Arturo C. Porzecanski
(PhD, Pittsburgh)
International finance; emerging markets, finance; Latin American economic and financial issues.
Robert Pastor
(PhD, Harvard)
U.S. foreign policy to the Americas, the Middle East, China, Congress and Foreign Economic Policy
Sharon Weiner
(PhD, MIT)
International and U.S. national security, U.S. foreign policy, institutions and public policy
