Resident Members and Affiliates (continuted) |
Stephanie Neuman
Senior Research Scholar and Director, Comparative Defense Studies Program
(Ph.D, New York University, 1971)
Neuman joined Columbia in 1975 and has served as the Director of the Comparative Defense Studies Program since 1981. She teaches courses on Third World security at Columbia and has also held teaching appointments at the United States Military Academy at West Point (1993-1994) and at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research (1972-1983). Neuman's other professional activities include work as a consultant for the Department of State and the Agency for International Development. She currently sits on the Defense Trade Advisory Group to the Department of State. Neuman is a member of many professional organizations. She sits on several editorial boards and on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies in Israel.
She is currently the Chair of the Editorial Advisory Board of International Studies Perspectives, a journal published by the International Studies Association. In addition to receiving numerous research grants and fellowships, Neuman has been a Senior Fulbright Scholar and a recipient of the Taraknath Das award for scholarship. Her publications include Military Assistance in Recent Wars: the Dominance of the Superpowers (Praeger, 1986), International Relations Theory and the Third World, ed. (St. Martin's, 1998), and several volumes co-authored with Robert Harkavy including Warfare and the Third World (Palgrave, 2001). She is also the author of numerous journal articles on Third World security issues.
Current Research:
Neuman is now engaged in research on U.S. security assistance and regional conflict.
|
Pablo Pinto
Assistant Professor of Political Science
(Ph.D, University of California at San Diego, 2004)

Pinto joined the Columbia faculty in 2004. He has previously held appointments at the Escuela Nacional de Gobierno in his native Argentina, and at the University of San Diego, Chapman University and the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, from which he holds a law degree. Pinto worked as the Chief Counsel for Toyota Argentina before pursuing a Masters in International Politics from Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan and his Ph.D. from UC San Diego.
His publications include :
New Japan-U.S. Relations in Multilateral Asia (Japan Economic Foundation, 2001) and The Pacific Basin: A
Non-Conventional Integration Model
(Institute of Oriental Studies, 1995).
Recent Publications:
(With Jeff Timmons) The Political Determinants of Economic Performance: Political Competition and the Sources of Growth (Forthcoming in 2005).
Current Research:
The link between domestic politics and foreign direct investment.
|
Tonya Putnam
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. Stanford University, 2005, J.D. Harvard 2002)
Tonya Putnam researches topics at the intersection of international relations and international law. Currently her primary focus involves explaining the conditions under which U.S. courts have exercised extraterritorial jurisdiction to regulate transnational disputes involving private parties and its implications for the origins and enforcement of rules in the international system. She has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University and a Fellow and longtime affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Professor Putnam is also a member of the California State Bar.
Research interests: international law, human rights, laws of war,‘rule of law’ and institutional-building in transitional settings.
|
Ambassador Stephen Sestanovich
Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of Practice in Diplomacy
|
Jack L. Snyder
Robert & Renee Belfer Professor of International Relations
(Ph.D, Columbia University, 1981)
Snyder joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1982 and has served as the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Political Science Department (2003¬2004), the Director of the Masters of International Af¬fairs Program at the School of International and Public Affairs (2002-2003), the Chair of the Political Science Department (1997-2000), the Director of the Institute of War and Peace Studies (1994-1997), and the Director of Graduate Studies for the Political Science Department (1993-1994). His publications include From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict
(W.W. Norton, 2002), Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition (Cornell University Press, 1991), The Ideology of the Offensive: Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914 (Cornell University Press, 1984), and numerous edited volumes, book chapters, and articles in scholarly journals.
Recent Publications:
Co-authored with Edward Mansfield, Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005). Lepgold Prize for the best book on international relations published in 2005. Foreword Book of the
Year Gold Award in Political Science for 2005.
"The Crusade of Illusions," Foreign Affairs, July-August 2006.
Co-authored with Edward Mansfield, "Prone to Violence: The Paradox of the Democratic Peace," The National Interest, winter 2005/2006.
"Empire: A Blunt Tool for Democratization," Daedalus, spring 2005.
"One World, Rival Theories," Foreign Policy, November-December 2004.
Co-authored with Leslie Vinjamuri, "Trials and Errors: Principle And Pragmatism in International Justice," International Security, winter 2003-04.
Current Research:
"The Dynamics of International Change: Social Facts and the Success of Normative Persuasion."
|
Warner R. Schilling
J.T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations Emeritus
(Ph.D, Yale University, 1954)

Schilling has been a member of the faculty of Columbia University since 1954 and has lectured at the National War College, the Army War College, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, the United States Air Force Academy the United State Military Academy, the Foreign Service Institute, the Imperial Defence College, and the Royal Naval College. He has served as a consultant for the Departments of Defense and State. His publications include two volumes co-authored and edited with the Institute’s founder, William T.R. Fox: European Security and the Atlantic System (Columbia University Press, 1973) and American Arms and a Changing Europe: Dilemmas of Deterrence and Disarmament (Columbia University Press, 1973).
Current Research:
Manuscript dealing with assassination as an instrument of foreign policy.
|
Kenneth N. Waltz
Senior Research Scholar
(Ph.D, Columbia University, 1954)
Waltz served in the United States Army during the Second World War and the Korean conflict before obtaining his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1954. He was a member of the Columbia University faculty from 1953 to 1957, and subsequently taught at Swarthmore College (1957-1966), Brandeis University (1966-1971), and the University of California, Berkeley (1971-1994), before returning to the Institute of War and Peace Studies in 1997. He was a research associate with the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University on sev¬eral occasions and with the Department of War Studies, Kings College, University of London (1986-1987). He has also taught at the London School of Economics (1976-1977, 1992-1993), the Australian National University (1978), Peking University (1982, 1991, and 1996), Fudan University (1991 and 2001), the United States Air Force Academy (1991-1992), and the University of Bologna (2002). He was the President of the American Political Science Association (1987-1988) and has received honorary doctorates from Copenhagen University (1995), Oberlin College (2002), and Nankai University (2003).
His works include:
Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis (Columbia University Press, 1959), Theory of International Politics (Addison-Wesley, 1979), The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate (W.W. Norton, 1995), which he coauthored with Scott Sagan, and numerous journal arti¬cles and book chapters. Recent Publications:
“Assaying Theories: Reflections on Imre Lakatos.” In Colin and Miriam Elman, editors, Progress in IR Theory: Appraising the Field. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 2003.
Current Research:
Reflections on the canonical works of international rela¬tions theory.
|
Previous Page |
|