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Present Position:
Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Address:
Department of Political Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9420

Telephone: (805) 893-8763
Fax: (805) 568-3720
Email: bjcohen@polsci.ucsb.edu
Date and Place of Birth: June 5, l937; Ossining, New York.

Marital Status: Married.    Citizenship: U.S.A.

Education:
B.A., Columbia University, l959.
Ph.D. Economics, Columbia University, l963.

Previous Appointments (full-time):
1962-1964: Economist, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of New York (33 Liberty Street, New York, New York l0045).

1964-1971: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey 08540).

1971-1978: Associate Professor of International Economic Affairs, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (Medford, MA 02155).

1978-1991: William L. Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (Medford, MA 02155).

Previous Appointments and Activities (part-time):
Lecturer, International School of America, l965-l966.

Visiting Research Professor, University College London, l968-l969.

Visiting Research Associate, Atlantic Institute for International Affairs, l975-l976; summer l978; summer l979.

Visiting Professor of Economics, Harvard University, Spring Semester, l979.

Director, Program in International Business Relations, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, l979-l983.

Resident Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, New York, January-March l980.

Faculty Chairman, Salzburg Seminar in American Studies (Salzburg, Austria), April l980; May 1987.

Visiting Lecturer, Foreign Service Institute (Mid-Level Officers' Professional Development Program), l982-1987.

Director, Study Group on International Banking and U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations, l983-l984.

Senior Visiting Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, l984-l985.

Volunteer Speaker, United States Information Agency: Japan (February l975); Ethiopia, Liberia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia (July-August, l976); Germany, Poland (November l976); Belgium (March l977); Afghanistan, India (July-August l977); Iran, Pakistan, Sweden (April l978); Mauritius, Tanzania, Zambia (July l978); Italy (October l978); Spain (January 1979); Britain (March l979); Ireland (June l979); Israel, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan (April-May l980); Spain (October l98l); Israel (August l982); France, Germany (December l983); Argentina, Brazil, Mexico (May-June l984); Peru (1989); Australia (1991); Argentina, Brazil (1992).

Visiting Lecturer, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing) and Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, May-June l986.

Visiting Scholar, University of North Carolina, Fall Semester, 1987.

Visiting Lecturer, Center for International Development Studies (Lisbon, Portugal), November 1988, April 1989.

Visiting Lecturer, University of the Andes (Bogota, Colombia), June 1989.

Visiting Professor, Institut d'Etudes Politiques - Sciences-Po (Paris), March 2003, May 2006, May 2007, May 2008.

Editorial Appointments:
Editor, The Political Economy of International Relations Series, Basic Books, Inc., l970-l977.

Member, Editorial Board, International Organization, l975-l98l, l983-1989, 1991-1996, 1998-2003, 2005 - .

Contributing Editor, Worldview, l983-l985.

Member, Editorial Board, World Politics, 1994-1999.

Member, Editorial Board, Review of International Political Economy, 1996- .

Member, Editorial Board, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 1999-2005.

Member, Advisory Board, Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, 2005-
Consulting:
Institute for Policy Studies, l969.

U.S. Department of State (Bureau of Intelligence and Research), l97l-l977.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Cabinet of the Secretary General), l976-77.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Interfutures Project), l977-l978.

U.S. Department of Treasury (Office of the Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs), l977-l978.

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Development Report), l979.

International Monetary Fund (Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs), l980.

U.S. Department of State (Agency for International Development), l98l.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Technical Cooperation Service), l984.


Honors:
New York State Regents Scholarship, l955-l959.

Phi Beta Kappa, l959.

A.B. Magna Cum Laude, l959.

New York State Regents College Teaching Fellowship, l959-l96l.

Columbia University Scholarships, l959-l960, l960-l96l.

Fels Fund Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, l96l-l962.

Columbia University International Economics Workshop, Summer Research Grant, l962.

Council on Foreign Relations, International Affairs Fellowship, l968-l969.

Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Conflict in International Relations Program, l975-l976.

Ford Foundation Research Grant, l978-l980.

Ford Foundation Research Grant, l983-l984.

Council on Foreign Relations, Whitney H. Shepardson Fellowship, l984-l985.

Fulbright Fellowship, December 1991.

Distinguished Visiting Professor, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, November 1993.

Distinguished Scholar, International Studies Association, 2000

Affiliations:
American Economic Association

American Political Science Association

Council on Foreign Relations

International Studies Association

Pacific Council on International Policy
Principal publications:

Adjustment Costs and the Distribution of New Reserves, Princeton Studies in International Finance, No. 18 (Princeton: International Finance Section, 1966).

American Foreign Economic Policy: Essays and Comments (Harper and Row, l968). [editor and contributor]

Balance-of-Payments Policy (Penguin Books, l969).

The Reform of Sterling, Princeton Essays in International Finance, No. 77 (Princeton: International Finance Section, 1969).

The Future of Sterling as an International Currency (Macmillan, l97l).

The Question of Imperialism: The Political Economy of Dominance and Dependence (Basic Books, l973).

Organizing the World's Money: The Political Economy of International Monetary Relations (Basic Books, l977).

Banks and the Balance of Payments: Private Lending in the International Adjustment Process, in collaboration with Fabio Basagni (Allenheld Osmun for the Atlantic Institute for International Affairs, l981).

The European Monetary System: An Outsider's View, Princeton Essays in International Finance, No. l42 (Princeton: International Finance Section, l98l).

In Whose Interest? International Banking and American Foreign Policy (Yale University Press for the Council on Foreign Relations, l986).

Developing-Country Debt: A Middle Way, Princeton Essays in International Finance, No. 173 (Princeton: International Finance Section, 1989).

Crossing Frontiers: Explorations in International Political Economy (Westview Press, 1991).

The International Political Economy of Monetary Relations (Edward Elgar Publishing, 1993). [editor and contributor]

International Trade and Finance: New Frontiers for Research, Essays in Honor of Peter B. Kenen (Cambridge University Press, 1997). [editor and contributor]

The Financial Support Fund of the OECD: A Failed Initiative, Princeton Essays in International Finance, No. 204 (Princeton: International Finance Section, 1997).

The Geography of Money (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998).

Issues and Agents in International Political Economy: An INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION Reader
, edited with Charles Lipson (MIT Press, 1999).

Theory and Structure in International Political Economy: An INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION Reader, edited with Charles Lipson (MIT Press, 1999).

Life at the Top: International Currencies in the Twenty-First Century, Princeton Essays in International Economics, No. 221 (Princeton: International Economics Section, 2000).

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

International Monetary Relations in the New Global Economy (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004). [editor and contributor]

International Political Economy (Ashgate, 2005). [editor]

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

Global Monetary Governance (Routledge, 2008).

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



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