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    David Sylvan
    Professor, Political Science

    Pavillon Rigot, RI 28

    Courses taught:
    • Study of International Politics II : International Political Economy
    • Introduction to International Relations
    • Qualitative Methods
    • The Foreign Policy of Great Power Intervention

    Position(s) at the Institute

    Professor, Political Science

    • Head of Political Science Academic Unit

    Profile

    PhD, Yale University

    David Sylvan (Ph.D., Yale University 1979) has been a member of the faculty of the Graduate Institute since 1991 and is currently head of the IHEID political science unit; prior to that, he taught at Syracuse University and the University of Minnesota. Sylvan is the author of numerous articles in various journals, and the author or editor of several books, the most recent of which (U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective [with Stephen Majeski]) was published in February 2009. His current research focuses on economic, covert, and military intervention; on sovereignty and gate-keeping in international relations; and on the international political economy of world cities. In addition, he works on issues of research design, epistemology, and formal models of qualitative theories. He has been the recipient of grants from the MacArthur Foundation, the Swiss and U.S. National Science Foundations, and the United Nations.

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