Campus Program Directors
Background: Steven Weber, a specialist in international
relations, is director of the Institute of International
Studies, professor of political
science at UC Berkeley, an associate with the International Computer
Science
Institute, and affiliated faculty of the Energy and Resources Group.
His areas of special interest include international and national
security; the
impact of technology on national systems of innovation, defense,
and deterrence; and the political economy of knowledge-intensive
industries,
particularly
software and pharmaceuticals.
Trained in History and International Development at Washington University,
and Medicine and Political Science at Stanford, Weber joined the Berkeley
faculty in 1989. In 1992 he served as special consultant to the president
of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London. He has
held academic fellowships with the Council on Foreign Relations and the
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is a member of
the Global Business Network in Emeryville, California, and actively consults
with government agencies, private multinational firms, and international
non-governmental issues on foreign policy issues, risk analysis, strategy,
and forecasting.
Weber’s major publications include Cooperation and Discord in
U.S.-Soviet Arms Control (Princeton University Press); the edited
book Globalization
and the European Political Economy (Columbia University Press); and
numerous articles and chapters in the areas of U.S. foreign policy, the
political
economy of trade and finance, politics of the post-Cold War world, and
European integration. His newest book, The Success of Open Source,
was published in April 2004 by Harvard University Press.
Prof. Weber's home page
Background: Alan Olmstead is a professor in the UC Davis Economics
Department and Director of the UCD organized research unit at the Institute
of Governmental
Affairs. IGA serves as a research base for social science faculty in
eight departments and schools on the UC Davis campus as well as visiting
scholars from throughout the United States and from around the world.
Olmstead and IGA agreed to house the UC Davis IGCC campus program beginning
in 1994. Olmstead’s research interests include economic history,
technological change, financial markets, and public policy economics.
His current research examines American agricultural history, agricultural
productivity, induced innovation, economics, and transition economics.
Prof. Olmstead's home page
Background: Cecelia Lynch is associate professor
of political science at UC Irvine and director of the Global Peace
and Conflict Studies
Program.
Her research lies at the intersection of international relations theory,
international organization and law, social movements and religion, peace
and security issues, and social theory and ethics. Lynch is the author
of Beyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in World
Politics (Cornell, 1999), and coeditor, with Michael Loriaux, of Law
and Moral Action in World Politics (University of Minnesota Press,
2000). She has also written numerous journal articles on subjects ranging
from
the use of E. H. Carr and Immanuel Kant in international relations theory,
to the UN, the role of peace movements in security issues, the normative
meaning of the contemporary anti-globalization movement, the changing
interpretations of internationalism over the twentieth century, contemporary
religious humanitarian movements and the ethical tensions involved in
their stances on intervention and the use of force, and the insights
that contemporary theological constructs can provide to our understanding
of religion in world politics. She received her Ph.D. in political science
from Columbia University in 1993.
Prof. Lynch's home page
Background: Kal Raustiala
teaches courses in international law and international relations. He holds
a
joint appointment between the UCLA Law School and the UCLA International
Institute,
where he teaches in the Program on Global Studies, a multidisciplinary
undergraduate program on globalization.
Raustiala was a fellow in the Foreign
Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.;
a Peccei Scholar at the International Institute
for Applied Systems in Vienna, Austria; and a fellow in the Program on
Law and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton. He
is a member
of the American Society of International Law and the Council on Foreign
Relations and has served as a consultant on legal matters to numerous
international organizations.
Professor Raustiala's recent publications
include "The Piracy Paradox:
Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design" (with Chris
Sprigman), forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review (December 2006).
His article "Form
and Substance in International Agreements", American Journal of
International Law (July 2005), won the 2005 Francis Deak Prize from
the American Society of International Law.
Prof. Raustiala's home page
 Gregg
Herken
Director
Program on Global Peace and Security Issues
UC Merced
Background: Gregg Herken is professor of history
at the University of California, Merced. Between 1988 and 2003, Herken
was a senior historian and the curator of military space at the Smithsonian
Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
Previously, he taught at Oberlin College, Yale University, and Caltech.
Herken is the author of four books, The Winning Weapon: The Atomic
Bomb in the Cold War (Knopf, 1981; Princeton, 1988), Counsels
of War (Knopf, 1985; Oxford, 1986), Cardinal Choices: Presidential
Science Advising from the Atomic Bomb to SDI (Oxford, 1992; Stanford,
1999), and Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties
of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller (Henry
Holt, 2002; Holt, 2003), which was a finalist for the 2002 Los Angeles
Times Book Prize.
Herken received a Ph.D. in modern American diplomatic history from Princeton
University in 1974, and thereafter taught at California State University,
San Luis Obispo. In 1978, he was the Fulbright-Hays senior research scholar
at Lund University, Sweden. In October 1988, Herken joined the Smithsonian
staff as curator and chairman of the Department of Space History. During
1994–1995, he was detailed as a senior research and policy analyst
to the President's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments,
at the request of the U.S. Department of Energy, as a result of the research
done for Brotherhood of the Bomb.
While at the Air and Space Museum, Herken served as one of the organizers
of a MacArthur Foundation-funded symposium series, "The Legacy of
Strategic Bombing," and was chief curator of "Trust but Verify," a
1990 exhibit on the end of the Cold War. Between 1988 and 1996, while
serving as chair of the Department of Space History, he was also the
responsible curator for "Space Race,” an exhibit which opened
at the Museum in May 1997. In July 2002, Herken accepted a position as
a founding faculty member of the University of California’s new
tenth campus, at Merced.
Prof. Herken's home page
Background: Christopher Chase-Dunn, co-director
of the IGCC-affiliated Program on Global Studies, serves as Distinguished
Professor of Sociology
at UCR. His current research focuses on structural globalization, agricultural
biotechnology as a new lead industry, and the historical development
of world-systems as reflected in the growth/decline sequences of cities
and polities. Chase-Dunn's research and theorizing has focused on major
topics in international relations: the causes of national development
and the historical development of systems of societies. In the 1970s
and 1980s he was among the founders of what has become a cottage industry
in comparative social science. His cross-national comparative research
on the effects of international economic dependence stimulated a flood
of research by sociologists and political scientists. In 2000 he moved
from Johns Hopkins University to the University of California, Riverside
to teach and found the Institute for Research on World-Systems.
Background: Juliann Emmons Allison is co-director
of the Program on Global Studies at UC Riverside. She is assistant
professor in Political
Science
at UC Riverside, where she directs the department’s Honors
Program and teaches international relations theory, political economy,
and environmental
politics and law. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from
UCLA in 1995. Her central research projects employ a range of methods
to describe
and explain the process and outcomes of international negotiations,
particularly those devoted to resolving disputes over the natural
environment, the
role of domestic political processes in shaping international cooperative
arrangements, and women's contributions to the world's political
economy.
Allison’s most recent work has appeared in Energy
Policy, The Journal of Peace and Change, Policy Studies Journal, Journal
of Conflict Resolution and Flashpoints in Environmental
Policymaking: Controversies
in Achieving Sustainability, edited by Sheldon Kamieniecki, George
A. Gonzalez, and Robert O. Vos. She is currently a fellow at UC Riverside’s
Center for Ideas and Society.
Prof.
Allison's home page
Background: Dr. Adams runs the UCSF division
of the joint (with UC Berkeley) graduate program in medical anthropology.
She teaches core
theory courses on the history and development of medical anthropology,
social studies of science, technology and medicine, and ethnographic
field methods. Her research interests include the social conditions
and epistemological framings of integrative medicine, international
health development, women's health and health care in Tibet, and
theories of modernity in relation to morality. She has worked for 22
years
on medical anthropology topics such as medical pluralism, medicine and
social change, and more recently on the politics of clinical trials
research in the Himalayan region ( Nepal and Tibet). She is also
interested
in global studies of science, technology and medicine, and particularly
the postcolonial exchange of scientific activities (from labs to
field sites, informed consent procedures to the residual problem of
spirit-caused
disorders).
Prof. Adams' home page
Background: Gershon Shafir received his
B.A.s in economics, political science, and sociology from Tel Aviv
University, his M.A. from the University of California, UCLA, and his
Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author
of Land, Labor, and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1982-1914
(1989, and updated edition 1995), Immigrants
and Nationalists (1995), and the editor of The Citizenship
Debates (1998) and co-editor
of The New Israel: Liberalization and Peacemaking (2000).
His articles have appeared in many journals, including the American
Journal of Sociology, the British Journal of Sociology, and
the International
Journal
of Middle
East Studies. His current research projects include: "Decolonization
and Peacemaking in South Africa and Israel/Palestine" and "Was
the Yom Kippur War Unavoidable?" His major area of interest is
comparative-historical sociology, with emphases on nationalism, ethnicity,
and citizenship
rights.
Prof. Shafir's home page
Background: Mark Juergensmeyer is director of the Global and International
Studies Program and professor of sociology and religious studies at UC Santa
Barbara, He is an expert on religious violence, conflict resolution and
South Asian religion and politics, and has published more than two hundred
articles and a dozen books. His widely-read Terror in the Mind of God:
The Global Rise of Religious Violence (University of California Press, 2000)
is based on interviews with violent religious activists around the world,
including individuals convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing,
leaders of Hamas, and abortion clinic bombers in the United States. It was
listed by the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times as one of the best
nonfiction books of the year. A previous book, The New Cold War? Religious
Nationalism Confronts the Secular State (University of California Press)
covers the rise of religious activism and its confrontation with secular
modernity. It was named by the New York Times as one of the notable books
of 1993.
Juergensmeyer has received research fellowships from the Wilson Center
in Washington, D.C., the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the U.S. Institute
of Peace, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Since the events
of September 11 he has been a frequent commentator in the news media, including
CNN, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, Fox News, PBS, National Public Radio, and ABC's Politically
Incorrect.
Prof. Juergensmeyer's home page
Background: Ronnie Lipschutz is Professor of Politics and co-director (with Nirvikar Singh) of the Center for Global, International, and Regional Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Prof. Lipschutz' current research interests are diverse, but they tend to focus on the sources and processes of social change in contemporary political collectivities under conditions of what is often called "globalization." Within this broad context, he is studying the constitution and fragmentation of old and new political units and movements (states, social movements, non-governmental organizations, civil society) in the areas of environment, security and identity. Selected publications include Regulation for the Rest of Us? Globalization, Governmentality, and Global Politics, (with James K. Rowe, Routledge, 2005) and Global Politics Because People Matter (Mary Ann Tetreault, co-author, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley.
Professor Lipschutz's home page.
Nirvikar Singh is Professor of Economics and and co-director (with Ronnie Lipschutz) of the Center for Global, International, and Regional Studies at UC Santa Cruz. He directs the Business Management Economics program and is codirector of the Santa Cruz Institute of International Economics. He has also taught at the Delhi School of Economics. His visiting research appointments have been at Stanford University; the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University; National Institute for Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi; Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi; Centre for Development Economics, Delhi; and Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
Professor Singh's main current research is on federalism, governance, and economic reform in India. He is working with Dr. Govinda Rao on a book, The Political Economy of Indian Federalism. He has worked on decentralization and local government reform in India for the World Bank. His other research topics include electronic commerce, technology and innovation, the strategic behavior of governments toward multinational corporations, international technology transfer, international water disputes, and economic growth and development in South and East Asia. He has also conducted theoretical research on how asymmetric information affects the structure and performance of markets and organizations, and has done empirical research in energy economics. Singh received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley.
Prof. Singh's home page.
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