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Mark_Blyth@brown.edu

Mark Blyth

Mark Blyth is a faculty fellow at the Watson Institute, professor of international political economy in Brown's Political Science Department, and director of the University’s undergraduate programs in development studies and international relations.

He is the author of Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002); editor of The Routledge Handbook of International Political Economy: IPE as a Global Conversation (New York: Routledge Press, 2009), which surveys different schools of IPE around the globe; and co-editor of a volume on constructivist theory and political economy titled Constructing the International Economy (Cornell University Press, April 2010). He is working on a new book that questions the political and economic sustainability of liberal democracies, called The End of the Liberal World? Another book, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, investigating the return to prominence of the idea of a financial orthodoxy following the global financial crisis, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

Blyth is a member of the Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform.

He is a member of the editorial board of the Review of International Political Economy, which is based at the Watson Institute, and his articles have appeared in journals such as the American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Politics, and World Politics.

He has a PhD in political science from Columbia University and taught at Johns Hopkins University from 1997 to 2009.

Claudia_Elliott@brown.edu

Claudia Elliott

Claudia Elliott is Associate Director and concentration advisor of the International Relations (IR) Program. She is also lecturer in International Relations and teaches in the IR Honors Program. She holds a BA and MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and an MA and PhD  in Political Science (“The Negotiation of Political Representation: Crisis and Democratization in Latin America”) from Brown University. She received a dissertation fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Latin American Program and was an electoral observer for the 1997, 2000, and 2006 elections in Mexico. Her work and research experience include the Americas Society (New York), University of Texas Press, Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos "Rómulo Gallegos" (Caracas) and Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo (CENDES, Universidad Central de Venezuela), El Colégio de México (Mexico City), and has published Spanish to English translations of scholarly work and fiction. Her current research interests are comparative democratization, Latin America and China, and Cuba-Venezuela relations. She has taught courses on comparative, US, and Latin American politics, as well as qualitative research and thesis writing at Brown University and Bryant University.

Anita_Nester@brown.edu

Anita Nester

Anita Nester has been at Brown since 1995. She holds a BA in Marine Affairs from the Univeristy of Rhode Island and an MSIS from Bryant University. She previously worked in the Human Resources department as the HR Systems Manager.

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