Rutgers International Relations and Comparative Politics Faculty

MYRON J. ARONOFF, Professor, received his B.A. from Miami University (Ohio), his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from U.C.L.A., and his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Manchester University ( England ). He was affiliated with Manchester University from l965-l969, taught at Tel-Aviv University , Israel , from l969-l977, and was a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences from l974-l975 and from 1996-1997. The recipient of Fellowships from the Bernstein Israel Research Trust, the Social Science Research Council of the United Kingdom, the Ford Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council funded by N.E.H. and the Ford Foundation. Professor Aronoff served as Editor of Political Anthropology, was Associate Editor of Society and was the President of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology and President of the Association for Israel Studies. He has authored:

• The Spy Novels of John le Carre: Balancing Ethics and Politics (1999)
• Power and Ritual in the Israel Labor Party, Revised and expanded Edition (1993)
• Israeli Visions and Divisions: Cultural Change and Political Conflict (1989)

BARBARA CALLAWAY, Professor, earned her B.A. at Trinity University in San Antonio , Texas and her M.A. and Ph.D. at Boston University . She currently serves the Department as Graduate Placement Chair. She has don e research sponsored by the Foreign Area Fellowship program in Nigeria , the SSRC in Ghana , the Fulbright-Hays Program at UCLA, Harvard, and the University of Nigeria ; and the Fulbright Program at the University of Ghana and Bayero University in Kano , Nigeria . She has chaired the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession and the Committee on Professional Ethics of the American Political Science Association, served on the Board and various committees of the African Studies Association, and is currently Vice President for Leadership of the International Women's Forum. She is currently finishing a biography of Hildegard Peplau and a book on the Politics of Nursing. Her current research is to focus on the efforts of relief agencies and NGOs working in refugee camps to foster the norms of civil society among women and children who were the victims of traumatic violence in their own societies. Her publications include:

• A Formidable Woman: Hildegard Paplau--Psychiatric Nurse of the Century , The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion and Change in West Africa (1993)
• Muslim Hausa Women in Nigeria (1987) 

ERIC DAVIS, Professor of Political Science, received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago . His interests include theories of political economy, state theory, political culture, theories of comparative politics, historical memory, and hegemony theory. His research has involved the relationship between state power and historical memory in modern Iraq , the political economy of Egyptian industrialization as a case study of dependency theory, the impact of oil wealth on the state and culture in Arab oil-producing countries, the ideology and social bases of Islamic radical movements, and the comparison of Islamic and Jewish radical movements. Professor Davis has been appointed a fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University , the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin , the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University , the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University and the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. He has received grants from the Social Science Research Council, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, IREX, and, as Director of the Rutgers University Center for Middle Eastern Studies, grants from the United States Department of Education, Title VI, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and the Verizon Foundation. Between 1980 and 1985, he was a member of the Social Science Research Council's Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East where he chaired a taskforce on social change in Arab oil-producing countries. Among his publications are:

• Memories of State: Politics, History and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq (California, 2004)
• Statecraft in the Middle East: Oil, Historical Memory and Popular Culture (with Nicolas Gavrielides) (Florida, 1991)
• Challenging Colonialism: Bank Misr and Egyptian Industrialization, 1920-1941 (Princeton, 1983)

LEELA FERNANDES, Associate Professor, received her B.A. and B.S.E. from the University of Michigan and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago . She holds a joint appointment with the Department of Women's Studies. Her primary interests include culture and politics, theories of political economy, labor studies, the politics of globalization, South Asian studies, feminist theory and comparative women's movements. She has received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the American Institute for Indian Studies, the Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University , and the American Cuncil for Learned Societies. Recent publications include:

• Producing Workers: The Politics of Gender, Class and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997).
• "Nationalizing 'the Global': Media Images, Economic Reform and the Middle Class in India," (Media, Culture and Society, 2000).
• "Restructuring the new Middle Class in Liberalizing India," (Comparative Studies of South Asia , Africa and the Middle East , 2000). 

ROBERT KAUFMAN, Professor, received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University . He has been a Research Associate at the Harvard Center for International Affairs in l967-68 and again in l975-76. In l980-8l he was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton , and received an appointment for l982-83 as a Fellow at the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson Institute for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D. C. He is currently on the editorial board of the Latin American Research Review. His current research is on the political economy of authoritarianism in Chile , Argentina , Brazil , Uruguay , and Mexico . Publications include:

• Politics of Debt in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico: Economic Stabilization in the 1980's (1988)
• The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions (with Stephan Haggard ), 1995.

JAN KUBIK, Associate Professor of Political Science, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and Recurring Visiting Professor of Sociology, Centre for Social Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. He received his B.A. and M.A. from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow , Poland and his Ph.D. from Columbia University . He taught previously at the Jagiellonian University, Barnard/Columbia and the College of Wooster. Currently serves as Director of the Center for Comparative European Studies at Rutgers and a member of the Editorial Board, East European Politics and Societies.

His work is focused mostly on postcommunist transformations in Eastern Europe and revolves around the relationship between culture and politics and contentious politics. A collaborative research project on collective protest in postcommunist Central Europe (with Prof. Grzegorz Ekiert, Government, Harvard) resulted in several publications, including: Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland, 1989-1993, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press (1999; paperback 2001) and "Contentious Politics in New Democracies. East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, 1989-1994," World Politics, 1998, 50. For Rebellious Civil Society Kubik and Ekiert were awarded the 2001 Bronislaw Malinowski Social Sciences Award from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America and the 2000 American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies/Orbis Bookstore Polish Book Prize for the best English language book in any discipline, on any aspect of Polish affairs. A new phase of this project is under development; its tentative title: The Logic of Civil Society: Contentious Politics in New Democracies (Hungary, Poland, South Korea and Taiwan). 

JACK S. LEVY, Board of Governors' Professor, received his B.S. in Physics from Harvey Mudd College and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin . He taught at Tulane, the University of Texas at Austin, Stanford, and the University of Minnesota before coming to Rutgers in 1989. Since then he has also held visiting appointments at Harvard, Yale, and Columbia . His dissertation received the APSA's Helen Dwight Reid Award, and his research has been supported with grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Stanford Center for International Security and Arms Control, and the Social Science Research Council/MacArthur Foundation. He has served on the editorial boards of the American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Politics, Mershon International Studies Review, and World Politics. His current research interests -- generally relating to the causes of war and to foreign policy decision-making -- include applications of prospect theory to foreign policy and international relations, the militarization of commercial rivalries, economic interdependence and war, politically-motivated opposition to war, historical trends in war, and the similarities and differences between History and Political Science in the study of international relations. Some of his publications include:

• "Loss Aversion, Framing, and Bargaining: The Implications of Prospect Theory for International Conflict" (1996)
• "Prospect Theory, Rational Choice, and International Relations" (1997)
• "Too Important to Leave to the Other: History and Political Science in the Study of International Relations" (1997).

BARBARA LEWIS, Associate Professor, received her B.A. from Smith College , and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern. Her research projects in the Cote d'Ivoire , include occupational, ethnic and religious identities among truckers (l966, l967-68); credit needs and cooperative efforts among market women (l970); fertility, employment and status among urban women (l973-74), l976). Her subsequent research has been on the politics of agricultural planning and policy implementation in underdeveloped countries, including field work on the impact of government policies on food and export crop production in Cameroon (l983, l985), Ivory Coast (1985, 1988-89), Guinea, Mali (1986). She has received research funds from the SSRC, the Population Council, USAID and USDA, the Ministry of Planning of the Cote d'Ivoire ,, and served as a Fulbright Fellow. She and Professor Elizabeth Annan-Yao of Cote d'Ivoire are currently completing research on the impact of economic crisis and adjustment on food production in Cote d'Ivoire , focussing on gender roles in production. Some of her publications are:

• "Getting Women on the African Agricultural Policy Agenda," in Harvey Glickman ed., The Crisis and Challenge of African Development, Greenwood Press, (1988)
• "Government Action, Government Inaction and Food Production in Cameroon," in Naomi Chazan and Tim Shaw eds., African Agricultural Policy, Lynne Rienner Publishers, (1988)
• "Farming Women, Public Policy & the Women's Ministry: A Case Study from Cameroon," in Staudt, ed., Women & Bureaucratic Power, forthcoming. 

ROY LICKLIDER, Professor, received his B.A. from Boston University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale. He taught at Tougaloo College before coming to Rutgers in l968. His fields of interest include comparative and American foreign and military policy, international political economy, international relations, and the comparative policy of higher education. He is currently working on how antagonists in civil wars form working states with one another. He has been a member of the Inter-University Consortium for Foreign Policy Research, as well as President of the Comparative Foreign Policy Section of the International Studies Association and Program Office with the Exxon Education Foundation. His publications include:

• "The Power of Oil," International Studies Quarterly (1988)
• Political Power and the Arab Oil Weapon: The Experience of Five Industrial Nations (1988)
• (ed.), Stopping the Killing: How Civil Wars End (1993).

MANUS I. MIDLARSKY, Moses and Annuta Back Professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution, received his BS in Physical Chemistry from the City College of the City University of New York, his MS in Physics from the Stevens Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University . He was Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Relations at the University of Colorado prior to coming to Rutgers in 1989. He also held visiting appointments at the University of Florida , the University of Michigan and the Richard son Institute for Conflict and Peace Research in Lon don , England . His research, focusing on the study of international warfare and national revolution, has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His contributions to education include service as a Board Member and Secretary of the Juilliard Pre-College Parents' Association, and two Directorships of Summer Seminars for College Teachers at the University of Colorado and at the University of Michigan . He has served on the editorial boards of the Western Political Quarterly, International Interactions, Journal of Politics and The International Studies Quarterly. He has been President of the International Studies Association, West, Vice President of the International Studies Association, and Founding President of the conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association. His books, published by The Free Press, Cambridge, Stanford, and other university presses, include

• The Onset of World War (1988)
• The Evolution of Inequality: War, State Survival, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective (1999)
• The Killing Trap: Genocides and Other Mass Murders of the Twentieth Century (forthcoming)

EDWARD RHODES, Associate Professor, received his A.B. from Harvard University and his MPA and Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 1986, Rhodes held research appointments at Cornell, Stanford, and Harvard Universities; since coming to New Brunswick, he has held appointments at Harvard's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard's Center for International Affairs, and the Defense Intelligence College and has been the recipient of a 21st Century Trust Fellow and a Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs. Rhodes spent 1996-97 as an International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, serving on the Strategy and Concepts Branch of the Navy Staff in the Pentagon. Rhodes 's current research deals with U.S. national security policy, focusing particularly on the determinants of national force posture decisions. His works include:

• Power and MADness: The Logic of Nuclear Coercion (Columbia , 1989).
• "Sea Change: Interest-Based and Cultural-Cognitive Accounts of Strategic Adjustment in the 1890s," Security Studies (1996)
• The Politics of Strategic Adjustment: Ideas, Institutions, and Interest (with Peter Trubowitz and Emily Goldman) (Columbia , 1998).

D. MICHAEL SHAFER, Professor of Political Science, Director of CGSD (BA Yale, PhD Harvard, Council on Foreign Relations, 21st Century Trust Fellow), is an award-winning teacher, who lectures globally, has published widely, and consults across the US and abroad. Shafer is author of

• Deadly Paradigms (Princeton 1988)
• Back in the USSR (with co-authors, Macmillan 1988), The Legacy (Beacon 1990)
• Winners and Losers (Cornell 1994)

as well as chapters in, for example, Business and the State in Developing Countries (Cornell 1997), and articles in The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World, and such journals as Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, International Organization, and Political Science Quarterly. With funds from foundations, the European Union, USAID, and the US State Department, Dr. Shafer has established civic education programs to transform universities throughout the newly democratic world. For a decade, 1994-2004, Dr. Shafer directed the Rutgers Citizenship and Service Education (CASE) Program, among the most international service-learning programs in the US. Under his leadership, CASE staff provided on-campus and overseas training to teams from 15 countries and dozens of American universities. CASE volunteers rendered more than 730,000 hours of service to more than 500 Community Partners valued conservatively $4 million. At CASE, he created www.njserves.org, an Internet portal for the New Jersey civic sector and test bed for the development of Internet tools for citizens. Dr. Shafer is now Director of the Political Science Department’s Center for Global Security and Democracy.

HARVEY WATERMAN, Associate Professor and Vice Dean of the Graduate School, received his A.B. from the University of Southern California and his A.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. After a year as a Research Associate at the Center for International Studies at Princeton , Professor Waterman came to Rutgers in 1966. His fields of interest include comparative politics, political sociology and the politics of foreign and defense policy. His current research concerns the effect of social change on politics in general and on foreign policy in particular and is focused on Western Europe . He is the author of:

• "Reasons and Reason: Collective Political Activity in Comparative and Historical Perspective, " World Politics (July, 1981)
• "Sins of the Children: Social Change, Democratic Politics, and the Successor Generation in Western Europe," Comparative Politics (July, 1988)
• "Political Order and the 'Settlement' of Civil Wars" in Stopping the Killing: How Civil Wars End, ed. Roy Licklider (1993).

RICHARD W. WILSON, Professor and Chair, received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University . The recipient of numerous awards including a Ford Foundation Fellowship, a John D. Rockefeller III Grant and National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship, an East-West Center Professional Associate Award, a National Endowment for the Humanities Award, and a Senior Fulbright Award, Professor Wilson taught at Princeton and served as Dean of the Chinese Summer School of Middlebury College before coming to Rutgers in 1968. Specializing in political behavior, Professor Wilson is currently doing research on political culture. His publications include:

• "Reconciling Universalism and Relativism in Political Culture: A View Based on Economic and Psychological Perspectives," The Journal of Asian Studies (February 1991)
• "Political Pathology and Moral Orientations," Comparative Political Studies (July 1991)
• Compliance Ideologies: Rethinking Political Culture (Cambridge University Press, 1992)
• "Transition from Tradition: Political Culture in China's Modernization," The Journal of East Asian Affairs (Winter/Spring 1994)
• "American Political Culture in Comparative Perspective," Political Psychology (June 1997).