Meet the Faculty

Meet the GGPS faculty who bring practical policy experience and research expertise to the classroom.

Department Chair

Research interests

  • Comparative democratization
  • Political and economicÌýinstitutions
  • Authoritarianism in Africa

Department Director of Graduate Studies

Research interests

  • Social movements
  • Discursive framing

Core Faculty

Research interests

  • Politics of borders and territorial conflicts
  • State weakness and failure
  • The Middle East and South and East Asia

Research interests

  • International law and organizations
  • Cross-cultural conflict and mediation
  • Anti-Corruption

Research interests

  • Applied microeconomics
  • Global economic history
  • Market integration inÌýJapan and China

Research interests

  • Politics of Eurasia
  • National loyalties and state-building
  • Insurgency

Research interests

  • Effectiveness of International organizations
  • Global environmental politics
  • Global and regional governance

Research interests

  • Politics of economic policymaking
  • International regime complexity
  • Comparative political economy

Research interests

  • Consequences of globalization
  • Foreign economic policy
  • Global politics of the Internet

Research interests

  • Inter-ethnic powersharing
  • Radicalization and counter-terrorism effectsÌý
  • Game theoretic/formal modeling approaches

Research interests

  • Refugees and forced displacement
  • Gender and conflict
  • South Asia

Research interests

  • Industrial policy
  • Economics of biodiversityÌý
  • Protection strategies for ecosystems

Research interests

  • State capacity andÌýcorruption
  • Judicial politics
  • Latin Âé¶¹´«Ã½ political economy

Affiliated Faculty

Earl Anthony Wayne Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer and Distinguished Diplomat in Residence SIS | Foreign Policy & Global Security

Ìý eawayne@american.edu