Speaker Biographies

J. Lawrence Broz is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of International Origins of the Federal Reserve System (1997), and his recent articles have appeared in a number of top journals, including International Organization, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Annual Review of Political Science. His current research focuses on the institutions of monetary and financial policymaking--such as central banks and exchange rate regimes--in which he finds remarkable variation across countries and over time. Professor Broz has held faculty appointments at Harvard University and New York University and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1993.

Tim Büthe is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Center for European Studies at Duke University, currently on leave while a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and teaching interests are in international and comparative political economy. His work focuses broadly on institutional change and the role of non-state actors in international politics, often combining qualitative and quantitative methods. He has written on globalization, the politics of standards and regulations, foreign direct investment and foreign aid, European integration and the EU, and the politics of business confidence. His recent work has been published in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, World Politics, Governance, and other journals. Professor Büthe received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2002.

Christina Davis is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Her teaching and research interests bridge international relations and comparative politics, with a focus on trade policy, and include the politics and foreign policy of Japan and the European Union and the study of international organizations. She is the author of Food Fights Over Free Trade: How International Institutions Promote Agricultural Trade Liberalization (2003), as well as articles in the American Political Science Review, World Politics, and Comparative Politics. Currently, she is researching a book manuscript about how domestic institutions influence the choice of trade negotiation strategies and WTO adjudication cases. Professor Davis received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2001.

Songying Fang is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Her research areas are international relations, international political economy, applied game theory, and quantitative methodology. Her current research focuses on how international institutions, without strong enforcement mechanisms, can influence state behavior. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science and Political Research Quarterly. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Rochester in 2006.

John R. Freeman is the McKnight University Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. He has been a visiting professor at the University Michigan and a consultant to international businesses, banks, the armed services and law firms. Freeman is the author of Democracy and Markets: The Politics of Mixed Economies (1989) and the co-author of Three Way Street: Strategic Reciprocity in World Politics (1990). The first of these books won the International Studies Association's Quincy Wright Award and has been translated into Chinese under the title 民主與市場: 混合經濟政治學. Freeman has also edited three volumes of Political Analysis and (co)authored more than twenty research articles in journals in North America and Europe. His professional posts include President of the American Political Science Association's Section for Political Methodology and the Co-Chair of the Midwest Political Science Association's Annual Meeting. In addition, he has been a member of the National Science Foundation's Political Science research panel and of three of the Foundation's select committees. He currently serves on the editorial board of several major research journals. At present, he is engaged in two research projects. The first analyzes the implications of market globalization--particularly financial globalization--for democracy. A recent co-authored paper from this project won the 2007 Robert H. Durr Best Paper Award. The second, funded by the National Science Foundation, applies Bayesian time series methods to the study of international conflict. The project develops a technology to forecast conflicts in the Middle East and South Asia as well as to evaluate the possible effect of third-party interventions in these and other conflicts. Professor Freeman received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1978.

Joanne Gowa is the William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War at Princeton University. Her research interests include international relations, international political economy, and the relationship between democracies and international disputes. She is the author of Closing the Gold Window: Domestic Politics and the End of Bretton Woods (1983); Allies, Adversaries, and International Trade (1994); and Ballots and Bullets: The Elusive Democratic Peace (1999); and of articles on political economy, trade and monetary policy, and democracy and disputes. She has been a member of the editorial boards of World Politics, International Organization, and the American Political Science Review and is a trustee of Tufts University. She has been a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in international security, a MacArthur Foundation Grant for Research and Writing, and a NSF POWRE grant. Professor Gowa received her Ph.D. from Princeton University.

Gene Grossman is the Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics at Princeton University and the Director of the International Economics Section. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and of the Center for Economic Policy Research. Professor Grossman has written extensively on international trade. He is well known for his work on the determinants of international competitiveness in dynamic, research-intensive industries, and in particular for his book with Elhanan Helpman entitled Innovation and Growth in the Global Economy (1991). He has also written (with colleague Alan Krueger) a widely-cited paper on the likely environmental impacts of the North American Free Trade Agreement, as well as many other papers on U.S. and developing countries' trade policies. His most recent writings examine the political forces that shape modern trade policy. He and Elhanan Helpman collaborated on Special Interest Politics (2001) and on Interest Groups and Trade Policy (2002). Their current research focuses on the causes and consequences of offshore outsourcing. Professor Grossman received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980.

David A. Lake is professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. He has published widely in international relations theory, international political economy, and American foreign policy. Lake’s most recent book on Hierarchy in International Relations will be published in 2009. In addition to over fifty scholarly articles, he is also the author of Power, Protection, and Free Trade: International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887-1939 (1988) and Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in its Century (1999) and co-editor of eight volumes including most recently Governance in a Global Economy: Political Authority in Transition (2003) and Delegation and Agency in International Organizations (2006). Lake has served as Research Director at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (1992-1996 and 2000-2001), co-editor of the journal International Organization (1997-2001), chair of UCSD’s Political Science department (2000-2004), and Associate Dean of Social Science at UCSD (2006-present). He is the founding chair of the International Political Economy Society, and was Program Co-Chair of the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (2007). He was recently nominated as President of International Studies Association (2010-2011). The recipient of the UCSD Chancellor’s Associates Award for Excellence in Graduate Education (2005), he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1984.

Quan Li is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Program on International Conflict and Cooperation (PICC) at Texas A&M University, where he joined the faculty in 2008. Before then, he was on the faculty at the Pennsylvania State University for ten years, where he co-directed the Multidisciplinary Seminar Series on Globalization in the College of Liberal Arts and served on the inaugural Faculty Governing Council of the School of International Affairs. His research interests span a diverse set of topics, including economic globalization, democratic governance, political violence, and macroeconomic policymaking, and his work has appeared in numerous journals, including British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Conflict Management and Peace Science, International Interactions, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, and Review of Policy Research, as well as various edited volumes. He is the co-recipient of the 2003 Best Article on Democratization Award from the American Political Science Association. His book, coauthored with Rafael Reuveny, entitled Complex Transformations: Democracy and Economic Openness in an Interconnected System, will be published by Cambridge University Press. Professor Li received his Ph.D. from Florida State University in 1998.

Mingxing Liu is Associate Professor at the China Institute for Educational Finance Research at Peking University. He is also affiliated with the Economics and Management Academy and the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing. His research focuses on political economy and local governance in China. His recent publications have appeared in Agricultural Economics, Regional Studies, China Economic Review, and the Journal of Asia and Pacific Economy. Professor Liu received his Ph.D. in Economics from Peking University in 2001.

Lisa Martin is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Before joining the faculty at Wisconsin in 2008, she was the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the effects of domestic and international institutions on international cooperation across a variety of issue areas. She is the author of Global Governance (2008); International Institutions: An International Organization Reader (with Beth Simmons) (2006); Democratic Commitments: Legislatures and International Cooperation (2002); and Coercive Cooperation: Explaining Multilateral Economic Sanctions (1992), as well as the editor of International Institutions in the New Global Economy (2005). Her work has been published widely in journals of both politics and economics, including Economics and Politics; International Organization; International Security; International Studies Quarterly; Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics; Journal of Theoretical Politics; Presidential Studies Quarterly; and World Politics, in addition to several edited volumes. Her current research examines the design of international financial institutions and the role of international institutions as signaling devices. Professor Martin received her Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Helen V. Milner is the B. C. Forbes Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and the director of the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. She is currently also the chair of the Department of Politics. She has written extensively on issues related to international trade, the connections between domestic politics and foreign policy, globalization and regionalism, and the relationship between democracy and trade policy. Some of her writings include Resisting Protectionism (1988), Interests, Institutions and Information: Domestic Politics and International Relations (1997), The Political Economy of Economic Regionalism (coedited with Edward Mansfield, 1997), Internationalization and Domestic Politics (coedited with Robert Keohane, 1996), “Why the Move to Free Trade? Democracy and Trade Policy in the Developing Countries” (International Organization 2005), “Why Democracies Cooperate More: Electoral Control and International Trade Agreements.” (coauthored with Edward Mansfield and B. Peter Rosendorff, International Organization 2002), “The Optimal Design of International Institutions: Why Escape Clauses are Essential.” (coauthored with B. Peter Rosendorff, International Organization 2001). She is currently working on issues related to globalization and development, such as the political economy of foreign aid, the “digital divide” and the global diffusion of the internet, and the relationship between globalization and environmental policy. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Megumi Naoi is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. Her area of specialty is international and comparative political economy with a focus on the politics of trade and inequality in East Asia (esp. Japan and China). She has written on politicians' responses to inequality in the global economy, trade legalization, and the effect of electoral systems on interest group lobbying and coalitions, among others. Her works are forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies and International Studies Quarterly. Her current projects include the politics of enforcing international trade agreements in China and large-scale survey research on the responses of Japanese firms, workers, consumers, and legislators to globalization funded by the Japanese government’s Grand-in-Aid for Scientific Research. During the 2008-2009 academic year, she will be working on these projects as an SSRC/Abe fellowship in Tokyo. Professor Naoi received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2006.

Ronald Rogowski is the former Interim Vice Provost and Dean of the International Institute and a professor and former chair of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Educated at the University of Nebraska (B.A. in Political Science and Mathematics, 1964), the Free University of Berlin, and Princeton University (Ph.D. in Politics, 1970), he has taught at Princeton, Duke, Minnesota (Visiting Stassen Professor, 1995), and UCLA and has held research appointments at Harvard University, the Center for Advanced Study, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is the author of Rational Legitimacy (1974) and Commerce and Coalitions (1989), and his National Science Foundation-funded work on economic consequences of electoral systems has led to a series of articles linking competitiveness policies to electoral systems. He has served as a Vice-President and as Program Co-Chair of the American Political Science Association and was elected in 1994 as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His current work centers on the theory and history of economic inequality.

Peter Rosendorff is Associate Professor of Politics at NYU. His research examines the linkages between domestic politics and international economic policy, and has been published widely in Economics, Political Science and International Relations journals. His recent work examines the links between the institutional features of democracy (such as electoral accountability, separation of powers, transparency) and economic policy (trade policy and membership of international trade regulating organizations). He is also working on the links between domestic politics and the optimal design of international in situations like the World Trade Organization and its dispute resolution mechanism. Professor Rosendorff serves as Editor of the journal Economics and Politics, and serves on the editorial board of International Organization. He has held grants from the National Science Foundation among others, and his consulting clients have included The World Bank, US Department of State, Major League Soccer, FIFA, and AT&T. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Kenneth Scheve is Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Leitner Program in International & Comparative Political Economy at Yale University where he teaches courses in political economy and quantitative methods and serves as the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science. His research interests are in international and comparative political economy and comparative political behavior. His current research projects include studying the mass politics of globalization; the determinants of income inequality and welfare state development; and the electoral behavior of voters and elites in ethnically heterogeneous societies and the consequences of this behavior for economic policymaking and democratic performance. His research has been published in numerous academic journals including the American Journal of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, Economics & Politics, European Union Politics, International Organization, the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Theoretical Politics, the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, and The Review of Economics and Statistics. He is the author, with Matthew Slaughter, of the book entitled, Globalization and the Perceptions of American Workers (2001) examining American public opinion about the liberalization of trade, immigration, and foreign direct investment policies. He has recently been a fellow-in-residence at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (2005-2006) and has previously been a visiting scholar at the Bank of England and London School of Economics. Professor Scheve received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2000.

Beth Simmons is the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Government at Harvard University and Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Her fields of interest and course subjects are International Relations, International Political Economy, and International Law. Her publications include Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years, 1923-1939 (1994), winner of the 1995 American Political Science Association Woodrow Wilson Award for the best book published in the previous year in government, politics, or international relations. She has also published articles on international institutions in International Organization, World Politics, and the American Political Science Review. Her current research focus is on the diffusion of economic and political liberalization globally. She is also researching compliance with international human rights treaties. Professor Simmons received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1991.

Randall Stone is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester. He currently serves as Associate Department Chair and Director of Graduate Studies and is Director of the Peter D. Watson Center for Conflict and Cooperation and Director of the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies. His research interests include international political economy, international relations, and Russian and East European politics, and he is the author of Lending Credibility: The International Monetary Fund and the Post-Communist Transition (2002) and Satellites and Commissars: Strategy and Conflict in the Politics of Soviet-Bloc Trade (1996), as well as articles in the American Political Science Review, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly and the Journal of Conflict Resolution. He is currently writing a book about informal governance of international organizations. Dr. Stone received his PhD from Harvard University in 1993 and served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Berlin from 2003 to 2004.

James Vreeland is Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Professor Vreeland conducts research in the area of international political economy, and his research explores a variety of topics, including economic reform, government transparency, the role of developing countries in international organizations, and even the practice of government-sponsored torture. He is best known for his work on international institutions, specifically the International Monetary Fund, and more recently, the World Bank and the United Nations. He is the author of The IMF and Economic Development (2003) and The International Monetary Fund: Politics of Conditional Lending (2007) and co-editor of Globalization and the Nation State: The Impact of the IMF and the World Bank (2006). He has published articles in International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Development Economics, Political Analysis, World Development, The Review of International Organizations, and the International Political Science Review. He teaches courses on comparative politics, political economy, and international relations. Professor Vreeland received his Ph.D. from New York University in 1999.

Zhengyi Wang is Professor and Chair of the Department of International Political Economy in the School of International Studies at Peking University. Before joining the faculty at Peking, he held post-doctoral fellowships at SUNY Binghamton and the Masion des Sciences de L’Homme in France and served as a visiting scholar at universities in the U.S., France, Belgium, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Canada. He has published a series of books and articles on International Political Economy, Asian Pacific regionalism, and China’s political economy and social reconstruction, including Political Economy of Asian Regionalism (2007); World System and Rise of Power (2005); International Political Economy (2003); World System and China (2000); and Periphery Development: World System and Southeast Asia (1997); “Transition Paradigm, Industrial Policy and Economic Policy: domestic and international forces”(forthcoming); “Beyond Gilpin’s Typology of IPE” (2006); “Understanding China’s Transition: national strategy, institutional adjustment and international forces” (2005); and “Conceptualizing Economic Security and Governance: China confronts globalization” (2004). He was appointed Trans-Century Distinguished Professor by the Education Ministry of China in 1999 and National Outstanding Expert by the State Council of China in 2001. Beginning in 2002, he has served as Director of a new major in International Political Economy at Peking University. He is also Adjunct Professor of the College of Foreign Affairs and Deputy General Secretary of the China International Economic Relations Association, as well as a member of the Academic Committee of The Nippon Foundation Group, a member of Editorial Board of Chulalongkorn Journal of Economics, Thailand, and a member of the Editorial Board of The Pacific Review, U.K. Professor Wang received his Ph.D. in economics from Nankai University in 1993.

Jing Vivian Zhan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and Public Administration at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests span comparative politics, political economy, quantitative methodology, and international relations, with a focus on post-Mao reform and institution building in China. She has recently authored an article on China's central-local relations forthcoming in the Journal of Contemporary China. Professor Zhan received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Tianbiao Zhu is Associate Professor in School of Government at Peking University and currently serves as its Associate Dean for Graduate Studies. Before joining Peking University in early 2003, he did post-doctoral work in the Department of International Relations of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University and taught in the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University. He also served as the Department Chair for the Department of Political Economy for three years in the School of Government. His teaching and research interests include international and comparative political economy and political economy of development. Professor Zhu holds a Bachelor of Economics (Honors) from the University of Sydney, an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University.