The Future of Foreign Policy Analysis Theory and Empiricism: An Editor's View from the Trenches
CIS Seminar Series
Summary:
A. Cooper Drury is editor of the journal Foreign Policy Analysis and Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri. This is part of a "Publishing Series" organized by Scott Wilbur, Political Science and International Relations Phd candidate, USC.
Description:
A. Cooper Drury (Associate Professor) has been with the Department of Political Science at University of Missouri-Columbia since 2002. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from the Arizona State University, and specializes in international relations. His research focuses on economic statecraft, the use of economic tools for foreign policy objectives. Understanding how and why states engage in economic statecraft as well as how it functions is an important aspect of international relations because it is fundamental to understanding how nations influence each other without using military force. Cooper has served as the president of the Foreign Policy Analysis Section of the International Studies Association and the president of the International Studies Association-Midwest. He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Policy Anaylsis since 2010.
Scott Wilbur, Political Science and International Relations Phd candidate at USC, will be serving as discussant.