Political Science

Darel E. Paul

Darel E. Paul
Associate Professor of Political Science, Chair of Political Economy Program
413-597-2327
Schapiro Hall Rm 339

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Curriculum Vitae
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Biography

Darel E. Paul’s research and teaching is in political economy and international relations. His current work focuses on financialization and its implications for neoliberalism in the United States and globally.

Education

B.A. University of Minnesota (1990)
M.A. George Washington University, International Relations (1994)
Ph.D. University of Minnesota, Political Science (2000)

Areas of Expertise

Professor Paul’s recent work has explored several specific questions in political sociology including the class politics of the US invasion of Iraq and the social presuppositions of same-sex marriage in the United States. He has also published reviews of the international political economy literature with special interest in liberal theory. He is currently engaged in three book projects: the third edition of Crane and Amawi’s reader The Evolution of International Political Economy; a project with Michael MacDonald on understanding neoliberalism; and a solo project on social class and the politics of same-sex marriage in the contemporary United States titled Beyond Tolerance.

Courses

Note: courses with gray backgrounds are not offered this academic year.

PSCI 229 (S)

Global Political Economy

PSCI 327 / ENVI 329 (S)

The Global Politics of Development and Underdevelopment

Scholarship/Creative Work

Books

Rescaling International Political Economy: Subnational States and the Regulation of the Global Political Economy. New York: Routledge, 2005.

Journal articles and book chapters

With Michael MacDonald, “Killing the goose that laid the golden egg: The politics of Milton Friedman’s economics.” Forthcoming in Politics & Society.

“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 (December 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 (December 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.

Committees

Winter Study Committee (2011-2012)
Political Economy Program (2011-2012)

Course Syllabi

Courses
PSCI 202: World Politics
PSCI 229: Global Political Economy
PSCI 327: Development and Underdevelopment
PSCI 361: Great Depressions
PSCI 420: 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

Program affiliations:

Program in Political Economy