Steven E. Lobell
Department of Political Science
Room 252
(801) 585-5259
FAX (801) 585-6492
steven.lobell@[no spam]
poli-sci.utah.edu
I am Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Utah. I teach
courses in International Relations Theory and World Politics, United States
Foreign Policy and Comparative Foreign Policy, and Security Studies. I received my Ph.D from UCLA, my M.A. from New York University, and my B.A. from the University of Wisconsin at
Authored six books:
· Neoclassical
Realism: A Research Agenda (Oxford: Oxford University Press, under
contract), with Norrin M. Ripsman and Jeffrey W. Taliaferro.
· The Challenge of Grand
Strategy: The Great Powers and the Broken Balance between the World Wars (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), with Norrin
M. Ripsman and Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, eds. Table of Contents.
· Beyond Great Powers and
Hegemons: Why Secondary States Support, Follow, or Challenge (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012), with Kristen
P. Williams and Neal G. Jesse, eds. Stanford Security Series. Table of Contents.
· Neoclassical Realism, the State, and
Foreign Policy
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), with Norrin M. Ripsman and
Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, eds.
Ø Nominated for 2011 The
Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.
Ø Introduction reprinted in: Foreign Policy Analysis (Sage Publications, 2011), eds. Walter
Carlsnaes and Stefano Guzzini.
Ø Introduction reprinted
in: Realism
Reader (Routledge, 2011), eds. Colin Elman and Michael Jensen.
· The Challenge of Hegemony: Grand Strategy, Trade, and
Domestic Politics (Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003, 2005).
· Ethnic Conflict and International
Politics: Explaining Diffusion and Escalation (New York: Palgrave, 2004), with Philip Mauceri, eds.
Articles appear in the following journals:
1.
Security Studies
2.
International
Studies Quarterly
3.
Political Science Quarterly
4.
The Journal of Strategic Studies
5.
Review of
International Studies
6.
Conflict Management and Peace Science
7.
International Interactions
8.
International Politics
9.
International Relations of the Asia-Pacific
10.Comparative Strategy
11.International Journal
12.The Chinese Journal of International Politics
13.The China and Eurasian Forum Quarterly
14.World Affairs
Sample of recent publications:
· “Bringing Balancing Back In: Britain’s Targeted Balancing, 1936-1939,” The Journal of Strategic Studies
(forthcoming).
·
“Engaging the Enemy and the Lessons
for the Obama Administration,” Political
Science Quarterly (forthcoming).
· “Winning Friends and
Influencing Enemies among Great Power Rivals: The Case of Washington, Beijing,
and Moscow, 1969-1979,”
The
Chinese Journal of International Politics Vol. 4, No. 2 (2011).
·
“Structural Realism/Offensive and
Defensive Realism” International Studies Association Compendium Project (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
· “Second Face of Security Strategies:
Anglo-German and Anglo-Japanese Trade Concessions During the 1930s,” Security
Studies Vol. 17, No. 3 (fall 2008).
· “The Second Face of Security: Britain’s ‘Smart’ Appeasement
Policy towards Japan and Germany,” International
Relations of the Asia-Pacific Vol. 7, No. 1 (2007): 73-98.
· “The International
Realm, Framing Effects, and Security Strategies: Britain in Peace and War” International
Interactions Vol. 32, No. 1 (2006): 27-48.
Recent Awards and Invited
Presentations:
·
University of Utah Faculty Fellow
Award for 2010-2011.
·
Fulbright
Senior Scholar, Israel, 2009-2010.
·
Recipient of 2009 Student Choice
Teaching Award.
· “Balance of Power, Components of
Power, and Grand Strategy”
Cornell University, Peace Studies Program, April 2, 2009.
· Conference on “Grand Strategy in the Interwar Years” University of Utah, Salt Lake City, March 26-27,
2009.
· Siciliano Forum on “Considerations of the Status of
American Society” University of
Utah, Salt Lake City, November 13, 2008.
Foreign Policy Club,
University of Utah, Department of Political Science
Steven E. Lobell
Department of Political Science
Room 252
(801) 585-5259
FAX (801) 585-6492
steven.lobell@[no spam]
poli-sci.utah.edu