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Our full-time faculty of 167 — award-winning authors, former ambassadors, and international affairs practitioners from around the world — allows us to provide students an innovative, cross-disciplinary curriculum.

Recent Faculty Books


  • book cover: The Politics of Nation-Building

    The Politics of Nation-Building

  • book cover: China Goes Global

    China Goes Global: The Partial Power

  • book cover: SGlobalization and Austerity Politics in Latin America

    Globalization and Austerity Politics in Latin America

  • book cover: Tangled Titans

    Tangled Titans: The United States and China

  • book cover: Security and Development in Global Politics

    Security and Development in Global Politics

  • book cover: When Victory Is Not an Option

    When Victory Is Not an Option: Islamist Movements in Arab Politics

The Politics of Nation-Building
Harris Mylonas injects international politics into the study of nation-building, connecting international relations and the comparative politics of ethnicity and nationalism.

China Goes Global: The Partial Power
David Shambaugh charts China's growing prominence on the international stage.

Globalization and Austerity Politics in Latin America
Stephen Kaplan examines the effect of financial globalization on economic policymaking.

Tangled Titans: The United States and China
David Shambaugh, (ed.)

Tangled Titans offers a current and comprehensive assessment of the most important relationship in international affairs — that between the United States and China. How the relationship evolves will have a defining impact on the future of world politics, the Asian region, and the citizens of many nations.

Security and Development in Global Politics: A Critical Comparison
Joanna Spear and Paul D. Williams

Security and development matter: they often involve issues of life and death and they determine the allocation of truly staggering amounts of the world's resources. Particularly since the start of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there has been momentum in policy circles to merge the issues of security and development to attempt to end conflicts, create durable peace, strengthen failing states, and promote the conditions necessary for people to lead healthier and more prosperous lives.

When Victory Is Not an Option: Islamist Movements in Arab Politics
Nathan Brown

Throughout the Arab world, Islamist political movements are joining the electoral process. This change alarms some observers and excites other. In recent years, electoral opportunities have opened, and Islamist movements have seized them. But those opportunities, while real, have also been sharply circumscribed.

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