Social Sciences

Orfeo Fioretos is Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple University, Philadelphia. His research focuses on international cooperation, especially the formal and informal institutions that structure economic relations among states. more

Stacie Goddard is Jane Bishop '51 Associate Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. Stacie Goddard’s research engages with core issues in international security, and in particular the study of the causes and conduct of war. more

Phillip Y. Lipscy is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. His fields of research include international organizations, international and comparative political economy, the politics of energy and the environment, and the politics of East Asia, particularly Japan. more

Paul K. MacDonald is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. MacDonald's work focuses on how powerful states create and sustain relations of dominance over others in international politics. more

Duncan Snidal is Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Nuffield College and the British Academy. His research focuses on problems of international cooperation and institutions with an emphasis on institutional design. more

Matthew D. Stephen is a Research Fellow in the Department of Global Governance at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). His research mainly focuses on the interaction between international power shifts, legitimacy, and international institutions. more

Jonas Tallberg is Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University. His research interests are global governance and European Union politics. more

Alexander Thompson is Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University and a Faculty Associate of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies. His current projects focus on the evolution of the global climate change regime, the politics of international investment agreements, and the power and performance of international organizations. more

Lora Anne Viola is Assistant Professor of Politics at the John F. Kennedy Institute at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on international institutions and global order, often with a special focus on US hegemonic power. more