Professor MICHAEL BAHAR
Email: mb3163@nyu.edu
Spring 2008 Office Hours: Tuesdays 10-12, 2-3; Room 303; (212) 998-8511
Michael Bahar holds a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University (1997), an M.Phil. in International Relations from Cambridge University (1998), and a J.D. from Harvard Law School (2002). He is currently a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy's Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps. While a JAG, he has prosecuted felony courts-martial in Florida, surge-deployed to Haiti in support of a humanitarian relief mission, and deployed to the Arabian Gulf and Horn of Africa in support of Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom.
Most recently, he was the aide to the Deputy Judge Advocate General of the Navy at the Pentagon. During his OEF/OIF deployment, Michael advised the capture and led the detention and investigation of the Navy's first set of captured pirates in recent memory. He was also an adjunct professor of international relations at the University of North Florida (2004-2005), an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison LLP in New York City (2002-2003) and a policy advisor for the New York State Senate (1998-1999). He is admitted to the New York State Bar and is a member of the New York City Bar's International Law Committee.
Professor PROSPER BERNARD
Email: pb80@nyu.edu
Spring 2008 Office Hours: Fridays 12:30-2:00; Room 304; (212) 998-8889
Professor Prosper Bernard got his B.A. degree from Concordia University (1994) and then earned his M.A (1999), and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (2003). An Assistant Professor at The College of Staten Island, CUNY, Prof. Bernard has also taught at Baruch College. His areas of specialization are theories of political economy, the comparative political economy of industrialized nations, and international political economy. He has been a guest speaker at the Graduate School of China University of Mining & Technology in Xuzhou, China and at the University of Quebec in Montreal. He is a member of the CONNECT Program, funded by the Canadian government, which aims to promote research on Canada in the United States. His current research focuses on the evolution of Canada's human security policy and on Canadian industrial adjustment since the early 1970s. His forthcoming book is titled “Logic of State Response to Economic Change: An Institutional Analysis of Industrial Adjustment in Canada.”
Professor BONNIE C. BRENNAN
Email: bon.brennan@gmail.com
Spring 2008 Office Hours: By appointment only
Professor Bonnie Brennan holds a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of Utah (1978). She received her J.D. from the New York University School of Law (1989) and graduated with a Ph.D. in International Relations from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (2006). She is currently practicing as appellate counsel at The Legal Aid Society here in New York. Her work on minorities addresses an important gap in the field of international law and human rights. Her dissertation The Fate of Minorities: The UN Endeavor to Create a Minority Protection Regime was on the subject of minorities, minority rights and the evolution of a minority rights regime under the auspices of the United Nations. While she remains interested in minority rights, her dissertation also piqued her interest in the discrete but closely related topic of the rights of indigenous peoples. She is currently working on a book on the subject preliminarily entitled, The American Genocide.
Professor G. SHABBIR CHEEMA
Email: cheemas@un.org
Professor Cheema holds an MA (1970) and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Hawaii, Honolulu (1977). Currently he is serving as Principal Advisor and Program Director in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, New York. Among his academic interests are Democratic Governance, Human Rights and Security, Globalization and Government Reinvention, Decentralization and Local Government, and Urban Management. Professor Cheema is author of many books, monographs, and articles on the subject of democratic governance. Among the most recent books are: Reinventing Government for the Twenty – First Century : State Capacity in a Globalizing Society, (co-editor and contributor) Westport: Kumarian Press, 2003; Building Democratic Institutions : Governance Reform in Developing Countries, Westport: Kumarian Press, 2005; and Decentralizing Governance : Emerging Concepts and Practices (co- editor and contributor) Washington D.C. Brookings Institution Press in cooperation with the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard University, 2007.
Professor JOHN ENTELIS
Email: entelis@fordham.edu
Fall 2007 Office Hours: Wednesdays 2-4; Room 304; (212) 998-8889
Professor Entelis is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Middle East Studies Program at Fordham University. He has been awarded several Fulbright awards and he has also directed three National Endowment for the Humanities summer institutes and seminars. Prof. Entelis is the author or co-author of numerous scholarly publications on the politics of the Middle East and North Africa including: Pluralism and Party Transformation in Lebanon (1974) Comparative Politics of North Africa (1980, 1984), The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa (1980, 1986, 1995, 2002), Political Elites in Arab North Africa (1982), Algeria: The Revolution Institutionalized (1986), Culture and Counterculture in Moroccan Politics (1989,1996), State and Society in Algeria (1992), and Islam, Democracy, and the State in North Africa (1997). He has also written scores of book chapters, articles and book reviews that have appeared in the leading scholarly journals in the fields of political science, international relations, Middle Eastern affairs, and North African studies. He has also published analytic pieces in The New York Times and Le Monde Diplomatique, among many others. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of North African Studies and Secretary of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) and editor of Westview's series on "State, Culture, and Society in Arab North Africa."
Professor CHUCK FREILICH
Email: Chuck_Freilich@harvard.edu
Spring 2008 Office Hours: Tuesdays 11-12 (schedule via email); Room 303; (212) 998-8511
Professor Freilich holds a B.A. in Political Science from Hebrew University, an MS in Organizational Behavior from Tel Aviv University and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science from Columbia University. Former Deputy Israeli National Security Adviser and currently a Senior Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, at Harvard University, Prof. Freilich specializes in International Relations Theory, US Foreign Policy, especially in Middle East, Middle East, Israeli national security strategy and decision making, decision making theory. Author of numerous publications, Prof. Freilich is working on his book National Security Decision Making in Israel.
Professor SHREYASI JHA
Email: sj46@nyu.edu
Spring 2008 Office Hours: Thursdays 5-7 by appointment only
Dr. Shreyasi Jha's research and teaching interests lie in the fields of international development, international trade and environmental policy. She has a Ph.D. in public policy from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.A. in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University.
Dr. Jha won the 2004 Ph.D. Dissertation Award from the Association of Public Policy and Management (APPAM) for her dissertation titled "Linkages between Trade Liberalization and Environmental Policy: Evidence from India."
Dr. Jha has been a consultant for the World Bank in Washington, D.C., since 2002, working variously with the Bank's Institute Evaluation Group, Europe and Central Asia Group, and the Environment Group and is currently on a year-long absence from her position as an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin.
Professor MARIA G. KOWALSKI
Email: mariagkowalski@gmail.com
Spring 2008 Office Hours: Fridays 1-2; Room 303; (212) 998-8511
Professor Kowalski holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University (2004). She is the author of “Substantial Freedom as Identity of Right and Duty” in Identity and Difference: Hegelian Studies in Logic, Mind and Politics, 2007. She has presented numerous conference papers on Hegel, Kant, Rawls, etc. Currently she is working on a manuscript dealing with Hegel's philosophy of right and freedom. Research interests include: history of political philosophy, theories of justice, theories of rights, ethics, freedom, liberalism and legal theory/jurisprudence.
Professor JODI LEE NELSON
Email: Jodi.Nelson@theirc.org
Spring 2008 Office Hours: By appointment only
Professor Nelson holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University (1998). Previously, she has taught at Columbia University and Princeton University. Currently she is with the International Rescue Committee (www.theirc.org) where she is now Director of Research and Evaluation. She previously was with other nonprofit agencies also with an international focus. At IRC, she designed and established the Policy, Research and Learning initiative (PRL) in 2003. Under her leadership, PRL has established several partnerships and projects conceived to strengthen the agency’s work with research and analysis. She is the Founder and President of the Overseas Development Network, a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Africa Chair of Society for International Development and Chair of International Political Economy Workshop at Columbia University.
Professor DERMOT O’BRIEN
Email: dermot.obrien@nyu.edu
Spring 2008 Office Hors: By appointment only
Professor O’Brien earned his B.A. (1990), and M.A. (1992) at University College, Dublin and he received his Ph.D. at N.Y.U.’s Department of Politics (2000). Besides teaching at NYU from 2001, he is also Associate Director for Academic Support in the College of Arts and Science since 2006. Prof. O’Brien teaches classes in the history of political theory, Nietzsche’s impact on the twentieth century, democratic theory, globalization, comparative politics and European politics. His abiding interest is in individuality and the conflict between nationalism and cosmopolitanism. He is currently working on a book for the general reader entitled “Nietzsche and Me.”
Professor ROGER PARDO-MAURER
Email: pardomaurer@gmail.com
Fall 2007 Office Hours: Mondays 4-6; Room 303; (212) 998-8511
Professor Pardo-Maurer is Instructor in National Security Affairs. He earned his B.A. in History from Yale University and studied at King’s College, Cambridge University where he earned his Diploma in Development Studies (1986). Until recently he served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Western Hemisphere. Previously, Prof. Pardo-Maurer has taught at National Defense University and Yale University. He is the author of several books and articles on strategic, business, trade, and environmental topics. Currently, Professor Pardo-Maurer is working on his book on Ungovernability.
Professor JOE PARENT
Email: jmp84@columbia.edu
Spring 2008 Office Hours: Wednesdays 6-8; Room 303; (212) 998-8511
Professor Joe Parent earned his B.A. at the University of Chicago (1999). He earned his MA (2001), M.Phil. (2002) and Ph.D. degrees (2006) from Columbia University. Prof. Parent specializes in international security and political integration. His past research was on political integration and unification, classical realism, dueling, and the correlates of bargaining failure. His present research is on European integration, trust in anarchy, and theories of grand strategy.
Professor JOEL H. ROSENTHAL
Email: jrosenthal@cceia.org
Spring 2008 Office Hours: By appointment only
Professor Rosenthal holds a B.A. from Harvard University (1982) and a Ph.D. from Yale University (1988). He is the President of Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. He focuses on Ethics, U.S. Foreign Policy, and International Relations. Author of several books on the subject professor Rosenthal is also co-author of EEthics and the Future of Conflict (with Albert C. Pierce and Anthony Lang) published by Prentice Hall, in 2004 and author of Righteous Realists published by Louisiana State University Press, in 1991.
Professor RAYMOND SMITH
Email: rs132@nyu.edu
Fall 2007 Office Hours: Thursdays 5:30-6:30 by appointment only; Room 303; (212) 998-8511
Professor Raymond Smith holds an M.A. in international relations from Yale University and a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. Prof. Smith is an adjunct assistant professor of political science at both New York University and Columbia University, where he has taught a wide variety of American politics courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels over the past five years. Within the NYU PCM program, he has taught courses on "Campaigns and Elections" and on "American Political Processes and Institutions" and has advised many students on their master's papers. Since 1999, Dr. Smith has served as general editor of the nine-volume book series "Political Participation in America" (ABC-CLIO Publishers), which focuses on interest groups, social movements, political parties, voting, and office-holding behavior among a wide range of groups within the American electorate. He is co-author of the social movement study Drugs Into Bodies: Global AIDS Treatment Activism (Praeger). His most recent book is The American Anomaly, a political science textbook about US politics in comparative perspective, which was published by Routledge in 2007. He is currently working on a book The Politics of Sexuality: Primary Documents, to be published by Greenwood Publishers in 2008.
Professor TONY SPANAKOS
Email: spanakos@gmail.com
Fall 2007 Office Hours: Mondays 3-4; Room 303; (212) 998-8511
Professor Spanakos holds an A.B. in Political Science, Princeton University (1995), an M.A. (1998) and a Ph.D. in Political Science, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2000). He specializes in Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Democratization, and Latin America. He has taught and published extensively on these subjects. Prof. Spanakos has been selected by the CIES and the US and Venezuelan Fulbright Commissions to teach at the Institute of Superior Study of Administration and to do research on credibility of economic policies (Jan –Aug 2008). Currently he is working on his book focusing on the topic of credibility and economic policy, and on the effect of elections and political events on economics in developing countries.
Professor MEHMET TABAK
Email: mt261@columbia.edu
Spring 2008 Office Hours: By appointment only
Professor Mehmet Tabak received his BA from University of California, Berkeley (1996) and he earned his MA, M.Phil, and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University (2004). Besides teaching at NYU, Prof. Tabak has taught at Columbia and CUNY. In his research Prof. Tabak focuses on modern political thought, theories of the state and Marxist theory from a political theory and a comparative politics perspective. Prof. Tabak has published numerous articles and he currently is working on his book on the state and globalization.
Professor ROBERT WEISSBERG
Email: rweissbe@uiuc.edu
Spring 2008 Office Hours: Wednesdays 1-2, 4-5; Room 303; (212) 998-8511
Prof. Weissberg has previously taught at Cornell and University of Illinois-Urbana. He has written ten books on public opinion, tolerance, political socialization, political activism, American government and other topics. Also published articles in the major professional journals (APSR, JOP, POQ, AJPS etc) and more popular magazines such as the Weekly Standard. Among his major (recent) publications are: Political Tolerance (Sage, 1998); The Politics of Empowerment (Praeger, 1999); Polling, Policy and Public Opinion: The Case Against Heeding the “Voice of the People” (Palgrave 2002); The Limits of Civic Activism: Cautionary Tales on the Use of Politics (Transactions, 2005); Pernicious Tolerance: How Teaching to “Accept Differences” Undermines Civil Society (Transactions, in press). Currently completing a book on the inculcation of "tolerance" in schools. The book shows how the older notion of tolerance--suffering the odious--has been transformed into "appreciating differences" and why this shift can have significant political consequences.
Professor CHRISTINE WING
Email: chris.wing@nyu.edu
Professor Christine Wing holds a Ph.D. in international security studies from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. Currently she is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Cooperation, leading a new project on multilateral approaches to nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. From 1995 to 2004, Chris was Program Officer for International Peace and Security at the Ford Foundation in New York. In that role she oversaw the Foundation’s funding concerned with WMD, the emerging security environment, and intrastate and regional conflict; she worked extensively with organizations in China and West Africa, as well in the US. She has also served as a consultant to the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and was Visiting Fellow at Princeton University’s Center of International Studies. From 1984-1989, Chris was also Coordinator of the National Disarmament Program at the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC); and from 1979-1984 was AFSC’s National Representative for Economic Rights.
Professor MÜSERREF YETIM
Email: yetimm@yahoo.com, myetim@qc.cuny.edu
Spring 2008 Office Hours: By appointment only
Professor Yetim holds a B.A. in economics from the Istanbul University, Turkey (1994) and M.A. in Political Science from Bogazici University (1998). She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin (2006) and she has taught at NYU and Queens College. A visiting scholar at The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University (2002-currently), Prof. Yetim specializes in Political Economy, Environmental Politics, International Relations Theory, Elites, Comparative Political Theory and Middle Eastern Politics. Prof. Yetim is the author of many publications and currently she is working on her book on International Water Rights Conflicts.
