Leslie Johns

Deborah Larson

Barry O'Neill

Steven Spiegel

Arthur Stein

Marc Trachtenberg

Robert Trager

David Wilkinson

With the end of the Cold War, the world has grown more complex and interdependent. New issues like terrorism, currency crises, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and global warming provide fascinating research challenges. The transformation of the former Soviet Union has increased political divisions in the NATO alliance, leaving the architecture of post-Cold War security in flux. Globalization of production, of financial markets, and information systems has introduced powerful new dynamics into the international system. The International Relations (IR) group at UCLA has sufficiently diverse interests and training to address these new questions from a variety of perspectives. Its range of expertise spans international history and diplomacy, international political economy, international relations theory, security studies, and formal theory.

The diversity of the IR faculty sustains research programs based on a variety of methods, including case studies, archival research, macrohistorical analysis, formal modeling, game theory, and quantitative analysis. Doctoral candidates in the department can draw on rich intellectual and financial resources to pursue their dissertation studies. Their work is supported by the Burkle Center for International Relations, the UCLA International Institute, UC's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, and a variety of centers focused on particular regions of the world. Recent Ph.D.s hold positions at Harvard University, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Texas, the University of Virginia, the University of Washington, the University of California at Davis, the University of Rochester, the University of California, San Diego, McGill University, the London School of Economics, the University of Oregon, the University of Vermont, Tulane University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Clark University. Some recently published dissertations include: Lawrence Broz, the International Origins of the Federal Reserve System (Cornell, 1997); Sandra Halperin, In the Mirror of the Third World (Cornell, 1997); Jeffrey Legro, Cooperation Under Fire (Cornell, 1995); Karen Liftin, Ozone Discourses (Columbia 1994); Robert Pahre, Leading Questions (University of Michigan 1999); Paul Papayoanou, Power Ties (Michigan, 1999); T.V. Paul, Asymmetric Conflicts (Cambridge, 1994); Lars Skalnes, Politics, Markets, and Grand Strategy (Michigan, 2000); and Kristen Williams, Despite Nationalist Conflicts (Praeger, 2001).