UCSB Department of Political Science - Benjamin J Cohen, Louis Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy

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Department of Political Science
Mailcode #9420
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9420

Phone: (805) 893-3432
Advising: (805) 893-4192
Fax: (805) 893-3309

Benjamin J Cohen, Louis Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy

International Relations, Politics of Public Policy, Political Economy
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Ph.D., Columbia University, 1963

Personal home page: http://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/faculty/cohen
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Professor Cohen, a specialist in international political economy, joined the department in 1991. He previously taught at Princeton University from 1964-1971 and at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University from 1971-1991.

His publications have addressed issues of international monetary relations, U.S. foreign economic policy, European monetary integration, developing country debt, and theories of economic imperialism. His newest book, International Political Economy: An Intellectual History, was published by Princeton University Press in 2008.

Courses Taught:

PS 186	Introduction to International Political Economy
PS 226	Seminar on International Economics for Non-Economists
PS 270	Seminar on Theoretical Issues in International Political Economy
PS 273	Seminar on International Political Economy

Selected Recent Publications:

"The Multiple Traditions of American IPE," in Mark Blyth (ed.), Routledge Handbook of International Political Economy (Routledge, 2009).

"A One-and-a-Half Currency System," (with Paola Subacchi), Journal of International Affairs 62:1 (Fall/Winter 2008).

"Striking a Nerve," Review of International Political Economy 16:1 (February 2009).

"Sovereign Wealth Funds and National Security: The Great Tradeoff," International Affairs 85:4 (July 2009).

International Political Economy: An Intellectual History (Princeton University Press, 2008).

Global Monetary Governance (Routledge, 2008).

"The International Monetary System: Diffusion and Ambiguity," International Affairs 84:3 (May 2008).

"Enlargement and the International Role of the Euro," Review of International Political Economy 14:5 (December 2007).

"The Transatlantic Divide: Why Are American and British IPE so Different?" Review of International Political Ecomony 14:2 (May 2007).

The Future of the Dollar (ICFAI University Press, 2006).

"The Euro and Transatlantic Relations," in Thomas Ilgen, ed., Hard Power, Soft Power, and the Future of Transatlantic Relations (Ashgate, 2006).

"The Macrofoundations of Monetary Power," in David M. Andrews, ed., International Monetary Power (Cornell University Press, 2006).

"North American Monetary Union: A United States Perspective," Current Economics and Politics of Europe 17:1 (January 2006).

"Dollarization, Rest in Peace," International Journal of Political Economy 33:1 (Spring 2005).

The Future of Money (Princeton University Press, 2004).