Selected princeton faculty in international relations (2009)

Former graduate students include: Eduardo Castro (IMF/World Bank), Beth Bloodgood (Corcordia College).

Ikenberry researches grand strategy, American foreign policy, postwar settlements, theories of the state, international organizations and international political economy. He is currently working on a history of liberal world order. Among his publications are After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars, Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government, State Power and the World Economy, and The State, as well as numerous edited volumes. Ikenberry has served on the Policy Planning Staff of the US State Department. He joined the Princeton faculty from Georgetown University in 2004. Ph.D., Chicago.

Lyall’s areas of research include the causes of civil conflict, terrorism, and war, post-Soviet and Russian politics, grand strategy and military effectiveness, and international security. He is particularly interested in the social construction of identities and ideas, as well as social network analysis. Specific projects include a study of security dilemma dynamics in Central Asia, anti-Chechen War protest in post-communist Russia, and a study of ethnic separatism in post-communist Eurasia and Southeast Asia. His dissertation, Paths of Ruin: Why Revisionist States Arise and Die in World Politics, which examines how collective identities shape, and often undermine, a state's grand strategy, won the APSA’s Helen Dwight Reid Award for Best Dissertation in International Relations. PhD, Cornell.

Ramsay’s areas of specialization include international relations, political economy, bargaining theory, and statistical methods. His current work examines bargaining in international politics, and its relationship to international organization. He has published in Journal of Conflict Resolution, American Journal of Political Science, and American Political Science Review. He joined the Princeton faculty in 2004 from the University of Rochester. PhD, Rochester.

Shapiro’s research focuses on economic motivations and organizational challenges of terrorist organizations. He specializes in using principal-agent analysis to understand how terrorist groups are constructed and how to combat them, and in analyzing primary documentation on terrorist groups. His publications include co-authorship of Harmony and Disharmony: Exploiting al-Qa’ida’s Organizational Vulnerabilities and Homeland Security: A New Strategic Paradigm?. As a Naval Reserve officer he was assigned to the Office of Naval Intelligence and the Naval Warfare Development Command, as well as serving on active duty at Special Boat Team 20 and onboard the USS Arthur W. Radford (DD-968). Shapiro joined Princeton in 2008 from Stanford. PhD, Stanford University.

Chris Achen's research interest is Political Methodology, particularly in its application to empirical democratic theory, American Politics, and International Relations. He is the author of two books, Interpreting and Using Regression and The Statistical Analysis of Quasi-Experiments, and co-author of a third, Cross-Level Inference. His last two co-edited books are The European Union Decides, and Voter Turnout in Multi-Level Systems—both based on research on the European Union. He was the first president of the Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association. Until 2004, Achen taught at Michigan, where he was recipient of an award for lifetime achievement in training graduate students. PhD, Yale.

Adelman studies Latin American history, with particular attention to the comparative development, state formation and legal history, and Latin America’s relationship to the Atlantic world. Adelman’s current project is an analysis of the decline and collapse of the Spanish and Portuguese Empires and the origins of the nation states and market economies. Among his current projects is a biography of the economist and political theorist Albert O. Hirschman. His books include Frontier Development: Land, Labour, and Capital on the Wheatlands of Argentina and Canada, Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the New World, and Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, a history of the world since 1300. PhD. Oxford.

Appiah’s research focuses on moral and political philosophy, African and African-American studies, and issues of nationalism and multiculturalism. His writings include books, essays and articles, as well as reviews, short fiction, three novels, and poetry. These include Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race, In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture, Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience, Encarta Africana, The Ethics of Identity, and Cosmopolitanism. PhD, Cambridge.