Education
B.A. University of Minnesota (1990)
M.A. George Washington University, International Relations (1994)
Ph.D. University of Minnesota, Political Science (2000)
Courses
- PSCI 229 LEC Global Political Economy (not offered 2026/27)
- PSCI 237/REL 282/SOC 283 SEM Religion and Capitalism (not offered 2026/27)
- PSCI 241/SOC 241 (S) SEM Meritocracy
- PSCI 360 SEM Right-Wing Populism (not offered 2026/27)
- PSCI 380/SOC 390 SEM Sex Marriage Family (not offered 2026/27)
- PSCI 381 (S) SEM The Conservative Welfare State
- PSCI 383 SEM Population Politics (not offered 2026/27)
- POEC 401 (F) SEM Contemporary Problems in Political Economy
- PSCI 421 SEM Senior Seminar: The Liberal Project in International Relations (not offered 2026/27)
Publications
Books
From Tolerance to Equality: How Elites Brought America to Same-Sex Marriage. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2018.
With Abla Amawi, eds., The Theoretical Evolution of International Political Economy, 3rd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Rescaling International Political Economy: Subnational States and the Regulation of the Global Political Economy. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Journal articles and book chapters
“The ‘civic’ road to secession: Political ideology as an ethnic boundary marker in contemporary Scotland.” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 26 (2020): 167-182.
With Michael MacDonald, “Killing the goose that lays the golden egg: The politics of Milton Friedman’s economics.” Politics & Society 39 (2011): 565-588.
“Liberal perspectives on the global political economy,” in Robert A. Denemark, ed. The International Studies Association Compendium Project, Volume 8. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2010: 4898-4919.
“The siren song of geopolitics: Towards a Gramscian account of the Iraq war.” Millennium 36 (2007): 51-76. Anthologized in Klaus Dodds, ed., Geopolitics. London: Sage Publications, 2009.
“Teaching political economy in political science: A review of international and comparative political economy syllabi.” Perspectives on Politics 4 (2006): 729-734.
“The local politics of ‘going global’: Making and unmaking Minneapolis-St. Paul as a world city.” Urban Studies 42 (2005): 2103-2122. [Lead article]
“World cities as hegemonic projects: The politics of global imagineering in Montreal”. Political Geography 23 (2004): 571-596.
“Re-scaling IPE: Subnational states and the regulation of the global political economy.” Review of International Political Economy 9 (2002): 465-489.
“Sovereignty, survival and the Westphalian blind alley in International Relations.” Review of International Studies 25 (1999): 217-231.
Select other publications
“Feminism against fertility,” First Things, May 2025.
“Who can claim the rule of law?” Compact, 6 May 2025.
“Democrats’ disastrous gender politics,” Compact, 8 November 2024.
“The failure of feminist natalism,” Compact, 26 January 2024.
“Drag queens,” First Things, February 2023.
“Right populism needs left economics,” Compact, 4 May 2022.
“The republic’s glue loses its stickiness,” The American Conservative, September/October 2021, 12-14.
“Against racialism,” First Things, October 2020, 7-.
“Under the rainbow banner,” First Things, June/July 2020, 17-.
“Listening at the Great Awokening,” Areo Magazine, 17 April 2019. [most-read Areo article of 2019]
“Culture war as class war,” First Things, August/September 2018, 41-46.
“Diversity: A managerial ideology,” Quillette, 19 February 2018.
More Information
Course Syllabi
PSCI 120: Introduction to International Relations
PSCI 229: Global Political Economy
PSCI 241: Meritocracy
PSCI 360: Right-Wing Populism
PSCI 380: Sex Marriage Family
PSCI 381: The Conservative Welfare State
PSCI 421/441: The Liberal Project in International Relations
POEC 401: Contemporary Problems in Political Economy
PSCI 11: The Gospel According to U2
PSCI 15: Catholic Political Economy
MUS 12: Gregorian Chant
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Office Hours (Spring 2026)
Wednesdays, 2:00pm-3:30pm
Fridays, 10:30am-12:00pm
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