e-mail: bjcohen@polsci.ucsb.edu
personal home page: http://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/faculty/cohen

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Fields of Interest: International Political Economy

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 Economoy: An Intellectual History, will be published by Princeton University Press in early 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 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).

"America's Interest in Dollarization," in Volbert Alexander, Jacques Melitz, and George M. von Furstenberg (eds.), Monetary Unions and Hard Pegs: Effects on Trade, Financial Development, and Stability (Oxford University Press, 2004).