Global Theory and History Faculty

• Charles Doran, Director

• Jakub Grygiel

• David Calleo

• Matthias Matthijs

Charles Doran

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of International Relations; Director of the Center of Canadian Studies

Areas of Expertise: Canada; Middle East; Persian Gulf; aid and American foreign policy; international economic issues; energy and resource issues; oil politics; OPEC; international political economy; international relations; military power and strategy; negotiation and conflict resolution; NAFTA; political risk analysis

Background and Education: Former professor and director of international management program at Rice University; has directed major research projects on North American Trade, Canada-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; 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); more than 75 refereed articles

Contact Information:
Room: Nitze 510
Phone: (202) 663-5715
Email: cdoran1@jhu.edu

Jakub Grygiel
Associate Professor of International Relations

Areas of Expertise: European security issues; American foreign policy; strategic and security issues; international relations

Background and Education: Former consultant to OECD and World Bank; columnist for Swiss and Italian newspapers; Ph.D., Princeton University

Publications: To Survive, Decentralize! The Barbarian Threat and State Decentralization (2010)

Contact Information:
Room: N506
Phone: 202.663.5735
Email: jgrygiel@jhu.edu
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David Calleo
Dean Acheson Professor and Director of European Studies Program

Areas of Expertise: Western Europe, Atlantic and Eurasian relations; France; Germany; Great Britain; Italy; American foreign policy; diplomatic history; economics; American economic policy; international economic issues; international political economy; international relations; military power and strategy; NATO; strategic and security issues

Background and Education: Named JHU University Professor; taught at Brown, Yale and Columbia universities, the College of Europe and the universities of Bonn and Munich, the University of Puget Sound, the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris and the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales (IUHEI) in Geneva; member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies; past Rockefeller, Guggenheim and Fulbright fellow; former associate at the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI); twice project director for the Twentieth Century Fund; former research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford; served as a consultant to the U.S. undersecretary of State for Political Affairs; Ph.D., political science, Yale University

Publications: Several books, including Rethinking Europe's Future (2001); The Bankrupting of America: How the Federal Deficit is Impoverishing the Nation (1992); Beyond American Hegemony: The Future of the Western Alliance (1987); The Imperious Economy (1982); The German Problem Reconsidered (1978); America and the World Political Economy (with Benjamin M. Rowland, 1973); numerous articles in journals and other publications

Contact Information:
Room: Rome 520
Phone: (202) 663-5796
Email: dcalleo@jhu.edu

Dr. Matthias Matthijs 

Assistant Professor of International Economic Relations at American University's School of International Service (SIS) and a Professorial Lecturer in International Economics and International Relations at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Awarded the 2011 Max M. Fisher Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Matthijs specializes in the politics of economic crises and the role of economic ideas in economic policymaking, as well as international and comparative political economy, and regional integration. He focuses mainly on Western Europe and North America, with a growing research interest in emerging Asia. Currently, he is conducting research on the global financial crisis, Europe’s sovereign debt crisis, and the global battle for economic ideas.

Matthijs has served as a consultant to the Foreign Investment Advisory Service of the World Bank-IFC from 2005 to 2007, focusing on private sector development and investment climate issues. He was a consultant for the Economist Intelligence Unit and Oxford Analytica, and was a visiting Professor of IPE at the SAIS Bologna Center in the spring of 2010 and a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County in the fall of 2004. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University.

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