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Curriculum Vita

Norrin M. Ripsman

Monroe J. Rathbone Distinguished Professor

Department of International Relations

Lehigh University                                                                                  

9 W. Packer Drive, MG 208 

Bethlehem, PA 18015

610-758-3386

nmripsman@outlook.com

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Education

Ph.D.

University of Pennsylvania

1997

Department of Political Science

Fields of specialization: International Relations, Comparative Politics, International Political Economy.

M.A.

University of Toronto

1990

Departments of Political Science and History

Field of Specialization: International Relations

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B.A.

University of Toronto

1989

Department of Political Science

Specialist B.A. in Political Science

Minor: History

Publications: Books

Peacemaking from Above, Peace from Below: Ending Conflict Between Regional Rivals (Ithaca, NY: Cornell Studies in Security, Cornell University Press, 2016).

 

Norrin M. Ripsman, Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, and Steven E. Lobell, Neoclassical Realist Theory of International Politics(Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2016).

 

Steven E. Lobell and Norrin M. Ripsman, eds. The Political Economy of Regional Peacemaking (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2016).

 

Jean-Marc F. Blanchard and Norrin M. Ripsman, Economic Statecraft and Foreign Policy: Sanctions and Incentives and Target State Calculations (London: Routledge, 2013) paper 2015.

 

Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, Norrin M. Ripsman, & Steven E. Lobell, eds., The Challenge of Grand Strategy: The Great Powers and the Broken Balance Between the World Wars (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) paper 2013.

 

Norrin M. Ripsman and T.V. Paul, Globalization and the National Security State (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2010) hardcover & paperback.

 

Steven E. Lobell, Norrin M. Ripsman, & Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, eds., Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy(Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2009) hardcover & paperback.

 

Peacemaking by Democracies: The Effect of State Autonomy on the Post-World-War Settlements

 (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2002): paperback edition 2003.

 

Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Edward D. Mansfield, & Norrin M. Ripsman, eds., Power and the Purse: Economic Statecraft, Interdependence, and International Conflict (London: Frank Cass, 2000 in both hardcover and paperback).

Publications: Refereed Journal Articles

Chong Chen, Jordan Roberts, Shikshya Adhikari, Victor Asal, Kyle Beardsley, Edward Gonzalez, Nakissa Jahanbani, Patrick James, Steven E. Lobell, Norrin M. Ripsman, Scott Silverstone, and Anne van Wijk, “Tipping Points: Challenges in Analyzing International Crisis Escalation,” International Studies Review, vol. 24, no. 3 (September 2022), pp. 

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Norrin M. Ripsman, “Globalization, Deglobalization and Great Power Politics,” International Affairs, vol. 97, no. 5 (Sept. 2021), pp. 1317–1333.

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Rosella Cappella-Zielinski, Kaija Schilde, and Norrin M. Ripsman, “A Political Economy of Global Security Approach,” Journal of Global Security Studies, vol. 6, no. 1 (March 2021), https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogaa005.

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“Correspondence: Neoclassical Realism and Its Critics,” (with Jeffrey W. Taliaferro and Steven E. Lobell), International Security, vol. 43, no. 2 (Fall 2018), pp. 193-203.

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“Is Peaceful Change in World Politics Always Desirable? A Neoclassical Realist Perspective,” (with Jeffrey W. Taliaferro & Steven E. Lobell), International Studies Review, vol. 20, no. 2 (June 2018), pp. 283–291.

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 “Correspondence: Debating the Sources and Prospects of European Integration,” International Security, vol. 37, no. 1 (Summer 2012), pp. 178-199. 

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“Promoting Regional Peacemaking,” International Journal, vol. 67, no. 2 (Spring 2012), pp. 431-436.

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 “Correspondence: Debating British Decisionmaking toward Nazi Germany in the 1930s,” (with Jack S. Levy) International Security, vol. 34, no. 1 (Summer 2009), pp. 188-198.

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“Wishful Thinking or Buying Time? The Logic of British Appeasement in the 1930s,” (with Jack S. Levy) International Security, vol. 33, no. 2 (Fall 2008), pp. 148-181.

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“A Political Theory of Economic Statecraft,” (with Jean-Marc F. Blanchard) Foreign Policy Analysis, vol. 4, no. 4 (October 2008), pp. 371-398.

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“The Preventive War that Never Happened: Britain, France, and the Rise of Germany in the 1930s,” (with Jack S. Levy) Security Studies, vol. 16, no. 1 (January 2007), pp. 32-67.

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“Peacemaking and Democratic Peace Theory: Public Opinion as an Obstacle to Peace in Post-Conflict Situation,” Democracy and Security, vol. 3, no. 1  (January 2007), pp. 89-113.

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“Two Stages of Transition From a Region of War to a Region of Peace: Realist Transition and Liberal Endurance,” International Studies Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 4 (December 2005), pp. 669-693.

 

 “Assessing the Uneven Impact of Global Social Forces on the National Security State: A Framework for Analysis,” (with T.V. Paul) International Studies Review, vol. 7, no. 2 (June 2005), pp. 199-227.

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“The Politics of Deception: Forging Peace Treaties in the Face of Domestic Opposition,” International Journal, vol. 60, no. 1 (Winter 2004-2005), pp. 169-196.

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“Under Pressure: Globalization and the National Security State,” (with T.V. Paul) Millennium: Journal of International Studies, vol. 33, no. 2 (March 2004), pp. 355-380.

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“The Challenge of Targeting Economic Sanctions,” International Journal, vol. 57, no. 4 (Autumn 2002).

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 “Lightning Rods Rather than Lightswitches: Arab Economic Sanctions against Canada in 1979,” (with Jean-Marc F. Blanchard) Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol. 35, no. 1 (Spring 2002), pp. 151-174. 

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“Rethinking Sensitivity Interdependence: Assessing Trade, Financial and Monetary Linkages Between States,” (with Jean-Marc F. Blanchard) International Interactions, vol. 27, no. 2 (June 2001), pp. 95-127.

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“The Independence of the Weak: Canadian Economic and Political Weakness as a Source of Independent Defence Decisions under Mulroney,” Canadian Foreign Policy, vol. 8, no. 3 (Spring 2001), pp. 1-16.

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 “The Curious Case of German Rearmament: Democracy and Foreign Security Policy,” Security Studies, vol. 10, no. 2 (Winter 2001), pp. 1-47.

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“Des horizons qui se resserrent: les politiques de défense conservatrices dans un monde en plein bouleversement,” Etudes Internationales, vol. 31, no. 2 (Juin 2000), pp.  329-346.

 

 “The Political Economy of National Security: A Research and Teaching Agenda,” Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, vol. 1, no. 2 (Spring 2000).

 

“The Political Economy of National Security: Economic Statecraft, Interdependence and International Conflict,” (with Jean-Marc F. Blanchard and Edward D. Mansfield) Security Studies, vol. 9, no. 1 (Autumn 1999), pp. 1-15.

 

“Asking the Right Question: When Do Economic Sanctions Work?” (with Jean-Marc F. Blanchard) Security Studies, vol. 9, no. 1 (Autumn 1999), pp. 228-264.

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 “Commercial Liberalism Under Fire: Evidence from 1914 and 1936,” (with Jean-Marc F. Blanchard) Security Studies, vol. 6, no. 2 (Winter 1996-97), pp. 4-50.

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“Measuring Vulnerability Interdependence: A Geopolitical Approach,” (with Jean-Marc F. Blanchard) Geopolitics, vol. 1, no. 3 (Winter 1996), pp. 225-246.

Publications: Chapters in Edited Books

Norrin M. Ripsman, “Historical Methods,” in R. Joseph Huddleston, Thomas Jamieson, and Patrick James, eds., Handbook of Research Methods in International Relations (Cheltanham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022), pp. 74-88.

 

Norrin M. Ripsman and Igor Kovacs, “Material Sources of Grand Strategy,” chapter 13 in Thierry Balzacq and Ronald Krebs, eds., Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy  (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021).

 

“Realism, Rationalism and Peace: A Top-Down and Staged Perspective,” pp. 47-58 in Henry F. Carey, ed., Peacebuilding Paradigms: The Impact of Theoretical Diversity on Implementing Sustainable Peace (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2020).

 

Thomas Juneau, Steven E. Lobell, Norrin M. Ripsman, and Lawrence P. Rubin, “Neoclassical Realism: Domestic Politics, Systemic Pressures, and the Impact on Foreign Policy since the Arab Spring,” chap. 2 in Shahram Akbarzadeh, ed.,Routledge Handbook of International Relations in the Middle East (London: Routledge, 2019).

 

“The Emerging Field of Comparative Grand Strategy,” chap. 13 in Thierry Balzacq, Peter Dombrowski, and Simon Reich, eds., Comparative Grand Strategy: A Framework and Cases (London: Oxford University Press, 2019).

 

“A Neoclassical Realist Explanation of International Institutions,” chap. 3 in Anders Wivel and T.V. Paul, eds., International Institutions and Power Politics: Bridging the Divide (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2019).

 

“The Political Economy of Security,” (with Rosella Cappella Zielinski & Kaija Schilde), pp. 249-264 in Derek S. Reveron, Nikolas K. Gvosdev, and John A. Cloud, eds., The Oxford Handbook of U.S. National Security (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).

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“Accommodation and Containment: Great Britain and Germany Prior to the Two World Wars” (with Martin Claar), in T.V. Paul, ed., Accommodating Rising Powers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).

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“Introduction: Conceptualizing the Political Economy of Regional Transitions,” (with Steven E. Lobell), in Steven E. Lobell and Norrin M. Ripsman, eds., The Political Economy of Regional Peacemaking (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2016).

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“The Economics of Peacemaking: Lessons from Western Europe and the Middle East,” in Steven E. Lobell and Norrin M. Ripsman, eds., The Political Economy of Regional Peacemaking (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2016).

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“Introduction: Grand Strategy in the Interwar Years,” (with Steven E. Lobell & Jeffrey W. Taliaferro), in Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, Norrin M. Ripsman, & Steven E. Lobell, eds., Broken Balances: Grand Strategy Between the World Wars(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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 “British Grand Strategy and the Rise of Germany, 1933-1936,” (with Jack S. Levy), in Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, Norrin M. Ripsman, & Steven E. Lobell, eds., Broken Balances: Grand Strategy in the Interwar Years (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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“Top-Down Peacemaking: Why Peacemaking Begins with States and not Societies,” chap. 11 in T.V. Paul, ed., International Relations Theory and Regional Transformation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).

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“Neoclassical Realism,” in Robert Denemark et. al., eds. The International Studies Compendium Project (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). 

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“Domestic Practices and Balancing: Integrating Practice Into Neoclassical Realism,” chap. 8 in Vincent Pouliot and Emanuel Adler, eds., International Practices (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

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“Introduction: Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy,” (with Jeffrey W. Taliaferro & Steven E. Lobell), pp. 1-42 in Steven E. Lobell, Norrin M. Ripsman, & Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, eds., Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

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“Neoclassical Realism and Domestic Interest Groups,” pp. 170-193 in Steven E. Lobell, Norrin M. Ripsman, & Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, eds., Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

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“The Future of Neoclassical Realism,” (with Jeffrey W. Taliaferro & Steven E. Lobell), pp. 280-299 in Steven E. Lobell, Norrin M. Ripsman, & Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, eds., Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

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“False Dichotomy: Why Economics Has Always Been High Politics,” pp. 15-31 in Peter Dombrowski, ed., Guns and Butter: The Political Economy of International Security (Boulder: Lynne Reinner, 2005).

 

“Moving Beyond (or Beneath) the Democratic Peace Theory: Rediscovering Intermediate-Level Institutions in the Foreign Security Policy Literature,” pp. 301-318 in Andre Lecours, ed., New Institutionalism: Theory and Analysis(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005).

 

“Qualitative Research on Economic Interdependence and Conflict: Overcoming Methodological Hurdles,” (with Jean-Marc F. Blanchard) in Edward D. Mansfield and Brian Pollins, eds Economic Interdependence and International Conflict: New Perspectives on an Enduring Debate, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003).

 

“Big Eyes and Empty Pockets: the Two Phases of Mulroney’s Defence Policy,” in Nelson Michaud and Kim Richard Nossal, eds., Diplomatic Departures: The Conservative Era in Foreign Policy (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2002).

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 “Contextual Information and the Study of Trade and Conflict: The Utility of an Interdisciplinary Approach,” (with Jean-Marc F. Blanchard) pp. 57-85 in Rudra Sil and Eileen M. Doherty, eds., Beyond Boundaries? Disciplines, Paradigms, and Theoretical Integration in International Studies (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000).

Research Grants and Fellowships

Department of Defense, Minerva, “Power Projection, Deterrence Strategies, and Escalation Dynamics

            in an Era of Challenging Near Peers, Rogue States, and Terrorist and Insurgent Organizations,” 

            (Steven E. Lobell, P.I.)  -- $1,125,000, 2018-2021

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International Studies Association (ISA) Venture Grant, “The Political Economy of Security,” 

            (collaborators: Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Kaija Schilde) 2014-15 — $8,721*, 2014

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Schusterman Fellow, Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University, Summer 2014.

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Fonds Quebecois pour la Recherche sur la Societe et la Culture (FQRSC) team grant (T.V. Paul, P.I.),

            “Globalization, Rising Powers and Regional Security,” $415,604*, 2013-2017.

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Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Workshop Grant, 2012

            “The Political Economy of Regional Transitions,”--$21,237 2012*.

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Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), “Peace Parties? Political

            Parties, Platforms, and Matters of War and Peace,”--$115,014* 2011-2014.

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Fonds Quebecois pour la Recherche sur la Societe et la Culture (FQRSC) team grant (T.V. Paul, P.I.),

            “Globalization and Regional Security,” $427,328*, 2009-2013.

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Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), “Top-Down Peacemaking,”--$79,000*, 2007-2010.

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Fonds Quebecois pour la Recherche sur la Societe et la Culture (FQRSC) team grant (T.V. Paul, P.I.),

            “Globalization and the State,” $266,000*, 2004-2008. 

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Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), “Constructive Economic

            Engagement and the Prevention of Violent Conflict,”--$56,047*, 2003-2005.

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Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l’Aide à la Recherche (FCAR), “L’Habilete Economique et

            Les Conflits Internationaux,” --$45,000*, 2001-2004.

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FCAR Equipment Grant--$8,500*, 2001.

 

General Research Fund Grant, Concordia University--$3,500*, 2001.

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Faculty Research and Development Program Grant, Concordia University--$16,000*, 2000-2002.

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Mershon Center (Ohio State University) Postdoctoral Fellowship in International Security, 1998-1999

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Mershon Center (Ohio State University) Workshop Grant--$6,000*, 1997-98

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Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1997-1998

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ISA Workshop Grant, “Economic Interdependence and Conflict,”— $4,500*, 1997

 

Truman Research Grant, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library--$2,500, 1994-95

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