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Alexander A. Cooley
Lehman 414
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Associate Professor of
Political Science, Barnard College
Phone: 212-854-9544
ac210@columbia.edu
Biography:
Alexander A. Cooley teaches courses such as "International Political Economy" and "Senior Research Seminar in International Politics." He has received the Gladys Brooks Foundation "Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching" Award.
Cooley's research interests are in international relations theory, centering on comparative semi-sovereign relations and client states, politics of United States' overseas military bases, and theories of contracting and organization.
During the fall 2007 semester, Cooley was an International Security Fellow of the Smith Richardson Foundation. His research and scholarship have also been supported by the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Carnegie Corporation. Cooley is an inaugural Open Society Fellow for 2009-2010.
His 2005 book Logics of Hierarchy (Cornell University Press) was a co-winner of the 2006 Marshall Shulman Prize for an outstanding monograph on the international relations or foreign policy in a state of the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe. In addition to his academic writings, Professor Cooley has published policy-related pieces in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Foreign Affairs, and Washington Quarterly.
Selected Publications:
Contracting States: Sovereign Transfers in International Politics, with H. Spruyt (Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2009.)
Base Politics: Democratic Change and the U.S. Military Overseas (Cornell University Press, 2008).
"Base Motives: The Political Economy of Okinawa's Antimilitarism," with K. Marten, Armed Forces & Society Vol. 32, No. 4 (July 2006), 566-583.
"Globalization and National Security After Empire: The Post-Soviet Space," Globalization and National Security J. Kirshner, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2006).
Logics of Hierarchy (Cornell University Press, 2005).
"Democratization and the Contested Politics of U.S. Military Bases in Korea: Towards a Comparative Understanding," IRI Review Vol. 10, No. 2 (Autumn 2005), 201-232.
"Base Politics," Foreign Affairs, November/December 2005.
"Thinking Rationally About Hierarchy and Global Governance," Review of International Political Economy 10th Anniversary Special Issue Vol. 10, No. 4 (November 2003), 672-684.
"Western Conditions and Domestic Choices: The Influence of External Actors on the Post-Communist Transition," Nations in Transit 2003: Democratization in East Central Europe and Eurasia (New York: FreedomHouse, 2003).