Elliott School Professors Martha Finnemore and Michael Barnett were listed as the No. 1 and No. 11 scholars, respectively, who produced the most interesting scholarship in the past five years in the 2011 Teaching, Research and International Policy (TRIP) survey 
, which included responses from 1,582 international relations faculty members.
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Steven M. Suranovic
Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs;
Director, International Trade and Investment Policy Program
Office: 1957 E Street, NW Suite 501
Phone: (202) 994-7579
Fax: (202) 994-5477
E-mail: smsuran@gwu.edu
Web: http://home.gwu.edu/~smsuran/
Blog: Steve Suranovic's Blog
Education:
Ph.D., Cornell University
Expertise:
International Trade; Trade Fairness; China's Economy; Economics of Addiction
Background:
Steve Suranovic received his B.S. in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign and his M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University. He has been a faculty member at the George Washington University since 1988. He has served several terms and is the current Director of the International Trade and Investment Policy M.A. program at the Elliott School of International Affairs.
Professor Suranovic teaches principles of microeconomics, international trade and international finance theory and policy. In Fall 2002, he taught at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, as a visiting Fulbright lecturer. Since 2009 he has taught summer study abroad classes for GW students at Fudan University in Shanghai. He has also spoken to business, government and academic audiences in Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, China and Mongolia as part of the U.S. State Department's speaker's programs.
Professor Suranovic's research interests include international trade policy analysis, fairness in international trade, and the behavioral economics of cigarette addiction and dieting. His most recent research evaluates unfair trade policies with China, and examines the world's addiction to fossil fuels and the implications for global climate change.
Publications:
He has published in numerous academic journals, including the Journal of International Economics, the Canadian Journal of Economics, World Economy, and the Journal of Health Economics. His books include:
- A Moderate Compromise: Policy Choice in an Era of Globalization, Palgrave-Macmillan, January 2011, which offers a critique of current methods of policy evaluation and choice and suggests a simple, principled, and moderate alternative, and
- International Economics: Theory and Policy, Flat World Knowledge, May 2010, an international economics textbook.