Andrew W. Mellon Professor of International Relations; Director of the Global Theory and History Program; Director of the Center for Canadian Studies
Expertise
Geographic Areas
Canada | Middle East | Persian Gulf Issues
American foreign policy | conflict resolution and negotiation | energy and security | energy issues | foreign aid and American foreign policy | globalization | international political economy | international relations | military power and strategy | NAFTA | oil politics | OPEC | political risk analysis Background and Education
Former professor and director of international management program at Rice University; directed major research projects on North American trade, Canadian-U.S. relations, Persian Gulf security and U.S.-German-Japanese relations; regular adviser to business and government and has provided congressional briefings and testimony on trade, security and energy policy; recipient of the Donner Medal, the Governor General's Award for Scholarship on Canada and the International Studies Association's Distinguished Scholar Award (Foreign Policy); Ph.D., political science, The Johns Hopkins University Publications
Democratic Pluralism at Risk: Why Canadian Unity Matters, and Why Americans Care (2001); The NAFTA Puzzle (1994); Systems in Crisis: New Imperatives of High Politics at Century's End (1991); The Gulf, Energy and Global Security: Political and Economic Issues (1991); Forgotten Partnership: U.S.-Canada Relations Today (1983); Myth, Oil and Politics (1978); The Politics of Assimilation: Hegemony and Its Aftermath (1971); "Life After Easy Oil" in The American Interest (2008); "Economics, Philosophy of History and the 'Single Dynamic' of Power Cycle Theory: Expectations, Competition and Statecraft" in International Political Science Review (2003); "Power Cycle Theory and Global Politics" in International Political Science Review (2003); more than 100 refereed articles | 
