Guide to Specialists
- World Regions:
- Africa
- Asia: Central
- Asia: East
- Asia: South
- Asia: Southeast
- Europe
- Latin America
- Middle East
- Russia and Eurasia
- Global Issues:
- Cold War History
- Democracy and Democratization
- Identity and Culture
- Development
- Energy Policy
- Globalization
- Health
- Human Rights
- Intelligence
- International Economics and Business and Trade
- International Education
- International Law
- International Politics
- Media and Communication
- Migration and Diasporas
- Science and Technology Policy
- Security/Defense
- Space Policy
- Terrorism
- U.S. Foreign Policy
- Weapons of Mass Destruction/ Arms Proliferation
World Regions
Africa
- Nemata Blyden
- African Diaspora History; Sierra Leone and Liberia
- Alison Brooks
- African humanities; African prehistory
- Yvonne Captain
- Africa and its Diasporas; U.S. Africa Relations; Film Industries
- William Cummings
- Education and Development
- David Gow
- Development theory and issues
- Richard Roy Grinker
- Cultures of Africa
- Gina Lambright
- African politics and public policy; Democratization
- Stephen Lubkemann
- Southern and Lusophone Africa (Angola, Mozambique); Liberia
- George E. Moose
- U.S.– Africa relations
- David R. Rain
- Urban Geography; Health and Environment
- David Shinn
- East and the Horn of Africa; Islamic fundamentalism; China in Africa
- Joanna Spear
- Sierra Leone
- James Williams
- Education and development; Education planning and policy
- Paul Williams
- Africa’s international relations; conflict and conflict resolution; contemporary peace operations
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Asia: Central
- Muriel A. Atkin
- Tajikistan, Iran, and Central Asian History
- Henry E. Hale
- Politics of Central Asia
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Asia: East
- Gregg Brazinsky
- U.S.-East Asian relations; East Asian and Korean History
- Jonathan Chaves
- Chinese and Japanese culture and literature
- William K. Cummings
- International education and development
- Bruce J. Dickson
- Chinese domestic and foreign Policies; U.S.-China relations
- Richard Roy Grinker
- Korea
- Shoko Hamano
- Japanese language
- I. Leopold Hanami
- Japanese language and literature
- Harry Harding
- Chinese domestic politics; Chinese foreign policy
- Young-Key Kim-Renaud
- Korean language and literature
- Kirk W. Larsen
- Korean history and culture
- Davis Lin-Chuan Lee
- Chinese language and linguistics
- Edward A. McCord
- Chinese history; Chinese military history
- Mike M. Mochizuki
- Japanese politics and foreign policy; U.S.-Japan relations; East Asian security
- Amy E. Searight
- Japan; East Asian economic relations
- David Shambaugh
- U.S. relations with Asia; Asian international relations; Chinese politics; China’s foreign relations
- Robert J. Shepherd
- Contemporary Chinese culture; Development; Human rights
- Robert Sutter
- East Asian language and history; U.S.-Asia Pacific relations
- Richard C. Thornton
- Chinese history; Sino-Russian relations
- Nicholas Vonortas
- Science and technology policy; Research and development (R&D) program evaluation
- James Williams
- Education and development; Education planning and policy
- Daqing Yang
- Modern Japanese history; Japan in Asia; Modern East Asia
- Jiawen Yang
- Business in China
- Phyllis Ni Zhang
- Chinese linguistics; Second language acquisition
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Asia: South
- Elizabeth Chacko
- Urban ethnic communities of South Asia
- Herbert Davis
- Strategic management; Business and investment
- Karl F. Inderfurth
- U.S.-South Asian relations
- Barbara D. Miller
- Cultural anthropology; Gender issues
- Inder Sud
- Economic Development; Trade and investment; U.S.-India Relations
- Emmanuel Teitelbaum
- South Asian Politics
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Asia: Southeast
- Alasdair Bowie
- Politics and development
- Joel C. Kuipers
- Language and ethnicity
- Shawn F. McHale
- Southeast Asian history; Vietnam
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Europe and Eurasia (See also Russia and Eurasia)
- Hugh L. Agnew
- History of East Central Europe and the Czech Republic
- Henry Farrell
- European Union and integration
- Harvey B. Feigenbaum
- Political economy of Western Europe; Political economy of France
- James M. Goldgeier
- NATO and Russia
- Margaret Ruth Gonglewski
- German Language
- Henry E. Hale
- Ethnic politics, federalism, democratization, political parties and politics of Eurasia
- Hope M. Harrison
- German foreign policy and history
- James Hershberg
- Eastern Europe amd Russia
- Dane K. Kennedy
- British Empire
- Emmet Kennedy
- History of France; European intellectual history
- Gregory Ludlow
- French language and literature
- Thomas Michael
- East Asian religions
- Kimberly J. Morgan
- European politics
- Elliott A. Posner
- European Union politics
- Scheherazade S. Rehman
- European Union; Central and Eastern Europe
- Michael J. Sodaro
- Comparative and international politics of Europe and Russia
- Mary Beth Stein
- German studies
- Jean-Francois Marie Thibault
- French language and literature
- Nicholas Vonortas
- Science and technology policy; Research and development (R&D) program evaluation
- Paul Williams
- British foreign policy
- Sharon L. Wolchik
- Central and Eastern European politics and policy; Comparative politics of Central and Eastern Europe
- Andrew Zimmerman
- German History
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Latin America
- Catherine J. Allen
- Andean South America; Cultures of Central and South America
- Yvonne Captain
- Film industries; Intellectual history
- James Ferrer, Jr.
- International economics; Latin America; Brazil
- David Gow
- Development theory and issues
- Kevin Healy
- Indigenous groups in Latin America
- Peter F. Klaren
- Latin American history; History of Peru and the Andes
- Cynthia McClintock
- Latin American Politics; Peru
- Marie D. Price
- Political and cultural geography; Immigration
- Fernando Robles
- International Marketing; Regional business strategies; Latin America
- Hildy Teegan
- Business in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Middle East
- Hossein Askari
- Economic development in the Middle East; Energy and the oil industry
- Nathan J. Brown
- Democratization; Political Islam; Palestinian politics
- Mohssen Esseesy
- Arabic; Genres in modern Arabic literature
- Edward W. Gnehm, Jr.
- Middle East Politics; Persian Gulf region
- Dina Khoury
- Middle East history; History of the Ottoman Empire; Islam and social movements
- Melani McAlister
- U.S. Culture and foreign policy in the Middle East
- Bernard Reich
- Middle Eastern politics; U.S.-Israel relations; Arab-Israeli conflict; Terrorism; Oil politics
- Walter Reich
- Holocaust and genocide studies
- Liesl A. Riddle
- Economic development; International business
- Inder Sud
- Aid and development
- Robert Weiner
- Oil; International business and finance
- Judith S. Yaphe
- Middle East and Persian Gulf security issues; Middle East history; Islamic extremism
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Russia and Eurasia (see also Europe)
- Muriel A. Atkin
- Russia, Tajikistan; Central Asian history
- James M. Goldgeier
- NATO and Russia
- Henry E. Hale
- Politics of Eurasia; Democratization
- Hope M. Harrison
- Russian foreign policy; The Caucasus
- Richard M. Robin
- Russian language; Russian media
- Peter Rollberg
- Russian cinema; Russian literature
- Michael J. Sodaro
- Comparative and international politics of Europe and Russia
- Richard C. Thornton
- Sino-Russian Relations; Russian and Soviet History
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Global Issues
Cold War History
- Gregg Brazinsky
- U.S.-East Asian history; Korea
- Hope M. Harrison
- International Cold War History
- James G. Hershberg
- International Cold War History
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Democracy and Democratization
- Alasdair Bowie
- Politics and development; Political economy of developing areas
- Nathan Brown
- Democratization and constitutionalism (Middle East)
- Bruce J. Dickson
- Chinese domestic and foreign policies; U.S.-China
relations; Global perspectives on democracy;
- Henry Hale
- Democratization (Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia)
- Gina Lambright
- Democratization (Africa)
- Cynthia McClintock
- Latin America; Peru
- Sharon L. Wolchik
- Central and Eastern European politics and policy
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Identity and Culture
- Hugh Agnew
- History of nationalism; Nationalism in Eastern Europe
- Catherine Allen
- Anthropology of Latin America
- Alison Brooks
- Politics of cultural heritage; Human evolution
- Yvonne Captain
- Film industries of Africa and Latin America
- Alexander Dent
- Public/popular culture
- David Gow
- Anthropology of development; Latin America; Africa
- Roy Richard Grinker
- Politics, Ethnicity and nationalism
- Stephen Lubkemann
- Southern and Lusophone Africa (Angola, Mozambique); Liberia
- Michael J. Marquardt
- Cross-cultural communication
- Melanie McAlister
- U.S. culture in a global context
- Barbara Miller
- Cultural anthropology, Gender issues
- Peter Rollberg
- Russian cinema; Russian Literature
- Bernard Wood
- Human evolution; Protecting the rights of developing
countries to their fossils
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Development
- Hossein Askari
- Economic development
- Alasdair Bowie
- Political economy of developing areas
- Jennifer Brinkerhoff
- Development policy and administration
- Reid Click
- International development finance
- William K. Cummings
- International education and development; Socio-economic development
- Diana Stukuls Eglitis
- Development sociology
- M. Shahe Emran
- Development and public economics
- David Gow
- Development theory and issues; Anthropology of development; Latin America; Africa
- Kevin Healy
- Indigenous groups in Latin America
- Barbara D. Miller
- International health and development; South Asia
- David R. Rain
- Africa; Health and environment
- Robert Sheperd
- Development anthropology
- Stephen C. Smith
- Development economics; Poverty; Labor economics; Economics of organization
- Inder Sud
- Trade and investment
- Hildy Teegan
- Business in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Emmanuel Teitelbaum
- Political economy of development; Political economy of labor
- James H. Williams
- International education and development; Education and marginal populations;
- Harold L. Wolman
- Economic development; Urban politics and policy
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Energy Policy
- Hossein G. Askari
- Energy and the oil industry; Middle East
- Bernard Reich
- Oil politics
- Robert Weiner
- Oil; Finance; Energy security
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Globalization (see also International Politics and Relations)
- Jennifer Brinkerhoff
- Migration and information technology
- Leon Fuerth
- Forward engagement
- David Alan Grier
- Information technology and society; Scientific institutions and policy
- Melani McAlister
- U.S. culture and foreign policy in the Middle East
- Henry Nau
- U.S. foreign policy
- David R. Rain
- Urban Geography
- Liesl A. Riddle
- Globalization and the Middle East
- James N. Rosenau
- Theories of world politics
- Jiawen Yang
- Emerging financial markets
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Health
- Edward Berkowitz
- History of healthcare and public health
- Elizabeth Chacko
- Medical geography
- George Fidas
- HIV/AIDS
- Roy Richard Grinker
- Autism
- Muhiuddin Haider
- Global health program planning; Health communications; HIV/AIDS partnerships
- Peter J. Hotez
- Tropical disease vaccinology; Pediatric infectious tropical diseases
- Barbara Miller
- Children and health; Cross-cultural health; Gender and health
- David R. Rain
- Africa; Health and environment
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Human Rights
- Allida M. Black
- U.S. history; Eleanor Roosevelt and the UN
- Kevin Healy
- Indigenous movements in Latin Americ
- George E. Moose
- UN
- Robert Sheperd
- Human rights and ethics
- Ralph Steinhardt
- International and comparative law; Human rights
- Walter Reich
- Holocaust and genocide studies; Soviet psychiatry
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Intelligence
- George Fidas
- Intelligence and transnational issues
- Jerrold M. Post
- Political psychology
- Judith S. Yaphe
- Middle East and Persian Gulf security issues
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International Economics and Business Business and Trade (see also Economics and Finance)
- Hossein Askari
- International finance and trade; Energy industry; Economic development
- Meghana Ayyagari
- International business finance; Corporate governance; Theory of the firm
- William H. Becker
- History of business; Business-government Relations
- Edward D. Berkowitz
- History of international systems
- Bryan L. Boulier
- Demography and forecasting; Economics of human resources
- Michael D. Bradley
- Macroeconomic theory and practice; Applied econometrics
- Maggie Xiaoyang Chen
- International trade; Intellectual property rights
- Marco Cipriani
- International finance; Financial economics
- Reid W. Click
- International business finance
- Joseph J. Cordes
- Public finance
- Herbert Davis
- Strategic management
- Robert M. Dunn, Jr.
- International trade and finance; Foreign exchange
- M. Shahe Emran
- Public economics, International economics, Applied econometrics
- James Ferrer, Jr.
- Latin America; Brazil
- Henry Hertzfeld
- Economics of technological change
- Graciela L. Kaminsky
- Macroeconomics; International finance; Monetary policy
- Renata Kosova
- International management; Business economics
- Michael J. Marquardt
- International human resource development; Cross-cultural communication
- Michael O. Moore
- U.S. trade theory and policy; WTO; Antidumping
- Joseph Pelzman
- International trade and finance; Foreign exchange rate policy
- Elliott A. Posner
- Politics of finance
- Scheherazade S. Rehman
- International business finance; International banking
- Liesl A. Riddle
- Trade and investment promotion
- Fernando Robles
- Regional marketing strategies; Strategies for developing economies; Latin America
- Robert M. Samaniego
- Macroeconomics; Production and diffusion of technology
- Amy E. Searight
- East Asian regional economic relations
- Steven Smith
- Development economics; Poverty; Labor economics; Economics of organization
- Jennifer Spencer
- International business strategy; Managing the multinational enterprise; World economy
- Steven M. Suranovic
- International trade policy; WTO; Free trade agreements; Fair trade
- Hildy Teegan
- Foreign market analysis; Inter-firm collaboration and strategic alliance; International marketing strategies
- Nicholas Vonortas
- International organizations; Strategic alliances, business networks; Research and development (R&D) program evaluation
- Robert J. Weiner
- International finance; Oil; International business strategy
- Jiawen Yang
- Financial institution risk management and modeling; International trade and finance; Emerging financial markets
- Anthony M. Yezer
- Regional and urban economics; Migration of labor and capital
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International Education
- William K. Cummings
- International education and development
- James H. Williams
- International education and development: Educational planning and policy
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International Law
- Joseph Pelzman
- International trade law; Corporate governance and law and economics
- Walter Reich
- Ethics in international affairs
- Ralph Steinhardt
- Comparative law; International law
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International Politics(see also Globalization)
- Steven J. Balla
- Politics and public policy; Executive branch politics
- Edward D. Berkowitz
- History of international systems
- Christopher J. Deering
- U.S. Congress
- Bruce Dickson
- East Asian politics; Global perspectives on democracy; Advanced theories of comparative politics
- Amitai Etzioni
- Sociological analysis of international relations; Civil society; Transnational norms and institutions
- Henry Farrell
- Comparative political economy; Technological developments in international affairs
- Martha Finnemore
- Ethics in International Affairs
- James Goldgeier
- International politics and security
- Karl F. Inderfurth
- International politics and security
- Dane K. Kennedy
- Colonialism and imperialism
- Gina Lambright
- Comparative politics
- James Lebovic
- International relations and methodology
- George E. Moose
- Global governance
- Elliott Posner
- Politics of finance; European Union politics
- Chad Rector
- International political economy
- Leo R. Ribuffo
- Twentieth century U.S. History; U.S. intellectual history
- James N. Rosenau
- Theories of world politics; International relations
- Susan K. Sell
- International relations theory; International political economy; North-south relations
- Michael J. Sodaro
- Comparative and international politics of Europe and Russia
- Emmanuel Teitelbaum
- Political Economy of Development and Labor
- Erik Voeten
- International organizations
- Harold L. Wolman
- Urban politics and policy; Comparative public policy
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Media and Communication
- Steven Livingston
- Political communication
- Lars Willnat
- Political communication; International communication
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Migration and Diasporas
- Nemata Blyden
- African diaspora history (Siera Leone, Liberia)
- Jennifer Brinkerhoff
- Diasporas and development
- Yvonne Captain
- African diaspora in Spain
- Stephen Lubkemann
- Migration and transnationalism
- Marie Price
- Transnational migration, Urban migration, Immigration policy
- David R. Rain
- Population mobility
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Science and Technology Policy
- Henry Farrell
- Technological developments in international affairs
- David Alan Grier
- History of science and technology; Information technology and society; Scientific institutions and policy
- Henry Hertzfeld
- Economics of technological change
- Robert W. Rycroft
- Science, technology and public policy
- Nicholas Vonortas
- Science and technology policy; Strategic alliances, business networks; Research and development (R&D) program evaluation
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Security/Defense
- Michael E. Brown
- International security; Conflict and conflict resolution
- Leon Fuerth
- National security; Forward engagement; NATO
- James M. Goldgeier
- International security politics; European security; NATO
- Karl F. Inderfurth
- National security and decision making; UN Security Council
- Stuart Johnson
- Technology and national security strategy; National security budgeting; Military policy
- James Lebovic
- Weapons acquisition; International conflict
- Kristin Lord
- International security and conflict
- Thomas E. McNamara
- National security; Political-military affairs
- Jack Mendelsohn
- National security affairs
- Mike M. Mochizuki
- East Asian security
- Bruce Powers
- Military policy issues; National security budgeting
- David Shinn
- East Africa
- Joanna Spear
- Post-conflict peace building; U.S. arms sales policy
- Ronald H. Spector
- Modern naval and military history
- Ray Williamson
- Environmental security
- William Wise
- Civil-military relations
- Judith S. Yaphe
- U.S. security policy in the Middle East/Persian Gulf
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Space Policy
- Henry Hertzfeld
- Economics of the space program; Intellectual property in space; Space science and transportation
- John M. Logsdon
- Space policy and history; Human space flight; National security and space
- Ray Williamson
- Earth observation satellite policy; Commercialization of space-related technologies; Space science and transportation
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Terrorism
- George Fidas
- Global issues
- Thomas E. McNamara
- Terrorism and counter terrorism
- Jerrold M. Post
- Psychology of terrorism
- Bernard Reich
- Middle Eastern politics
- Walter Reich
- Holocaust and genocide studies
- Brad Roberts
- Bio-chemical weapons
- Holger Schmidt
- Transnational security threats
- David Shinn
- East and the Horn of Africa
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U.S. Foreign Policy
- Gregg Brazinsky
- U.S.-East Asian relations
- Michael E. Brown
- U.S. foreign and defense policy
- Bruce J. Dickson
- U.S.-China relations
- James Goldgeier
- U.S.-Europe-Russian relations
- Harry Harding
- U.S.-China relations; U.S.-Asian relations
- James Hershberg
- Eastern Europe and Russia
- Karl F. Inderfurth
- U.S.-South Asian relations
- Kristin Lord
- Public diplomacy
- Melani McAlister
- U.S. culture and foreign policy in the Middle East
- Cynthia McClintock
- U.S. Foreign policy toward Latin America
- Thomas E. McNamara
- U.S. political-military relations
- Mike M. Mochizuki
- U.S.-Japan relations
- George E. Moose
- U.S.-Africa relations
- Henry R. Nau
- Contemporary U.S. foreign policy issues; U.S.-European and U.S.-Japan relations
- Bernard Reich
- U.S.-Israel relations
- David L. Shambaugh
- U.S. relations with China
- David Shinn
- U.S.-Africa relations
- Joanna Spear
- Transatlantic relations
- Ronald H. Spector
- History of U.S. foreign policy
- Robert Sutter
- U.S.-Asia pacific relations
- Richard C. Thornton
- History of U.S. foreign policy
- Judith S. Yaphe
- U.S. policy in Iraq
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Weapons of Mass Destruction/ Arms Proliferation
- Michael E. Brown
- Weapons proliferation and arms control
- Leon Fuerth
- Nuclear disarmament
- James G. Hershberg
- Nuclear history
- Thomas E. McNamara
- Arms control and non-proliferation
- Jack Mendelsohn
- Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
- Brad Roberts
- Bio-chemical weapons; terrorism
- Joanna Spear
- Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration
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