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Department of Political Science

Alberta M. Sbragia

Mark A. Nordenberg University Chair,
Jean Monnet Chair ad personam,
director of the European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center, and
professor of political science,
Department of Political Science,
School of Arts and Sciences
office: 412-648-7405
cell: 412-478-4088
sbragia@pitt.edu
Faculty Bio

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Amanda Leff
office: 412-624-4238
cell: 412-337-3350
aleff@pitt.edu

Areas of Expertise

European Union politics and policy (such as the Euro transatlantic relations), climate change negotiations, comparative politics, Europe, comparative federalism and religion

Background

Alberta Sbragia is the Mark A. Nordenberg University Chair, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam, director of the European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center, and a professor of political science. She is the author of Comparative Regionalism in an Age of Globalization (under contract, CQ Press); and Debt Wish: Entrepreneurial Cities, U.S. Federalism, and Economic Development (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996). She edited Euro-Politics: Politics and Policymaking in the "New" European Community (Brookings Institution, 1992). Sbragia is largely credited with initiating a new wave of scholarly work in the United States on the topic of European integration. In addition, she has authored more than 50 articles and presented nearly 200 papers or speeches around the world.

Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

Carolyn Ban

Professor,
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
office: 412-648-7662
cban@birch.gspia.pitt.edu
Web site

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Amanda Leff
office: 412-624-4238
cell: 412-337-3350
aleff@pitt.edu

Areas of Expertise

Public management, human resources management, organizational culture and organizational change, and the management of international organizations

Background

Carolyn Ban is a professor of public and urban affairs and international development in Pitt’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA). Her research interests include public and nonprofit personnel administration, management of international organizations, public management, administrative reform (American and comparative), ethics, and European Union enlargement. She is the former dean of GSPIA. Her books include How Do Public Managers Manage? Bureaucratic Constraints, Organizational Culture, and the Potential for Reform (Jossey-Bass, 1995), now in its third edition, and Public Personnel Management: Current Concerns, Future Challenges (Longman, 2001), also in its third edition. She also has published numerous professional articles and book chapters.

Brenner

Michael Brenner

Professor,
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
office: 412-648-7624
brenner@gspia.pitt.edu
Faculty Bio

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Amanda Leff
office: 412-624-4238
cell: 412-337-3350
aleff@pitt.edu

Background

Michael Brenner is a professor of international affairs in Pitt’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. His research interests include American foreign policy, international relations theory, international political economy, and national security. Brenner is affiliated with the Center for Transatlantic Relations in Washington, D.C.

Keeler

John T. S. Keeler
Professor,
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
412-648-7600
keeler@pitt.edu
Faculty Bio

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Amanda Leff
office: 412-624-4238
cell: 412-337-3350
aleff@pitt.edu

Areas of Expertise

Comparative public policy, EU politics, transatlantic relations, American foreign policy, Seattle’s WTO protest

A widely recognized scholar of European politics, John T. S. Keeler is dean of Pitt’s Graduate School for Public and International Affairs. He previously served as chair of the European Union Studies Association and was a professor of political science at the Center for West European Studies and European Union Center of Excellence, University of Washington at Seattle.

Keeler has published broadly in such notable publications as Defending Europe: NATO and the Quest for European Autonomy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); Chirac's Challenge: Liberalization, Europeanization and Malaise in France (St. Martin's Press and Macmillan, 1996); Agricultural Policy (2 volumes, Cheltenham and Edward Elgar, 2000); The Politics of Neocorporatism in France: Farmers, the State and Agricultural Policy-making in the Fifth Republic (Oxford University Press, 1987); and Réformer: Les Conditions du Changement Politique (Presses Universitaires de France, 1994). He has published articles in numerous professional journals, including Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Common Market Studies, West European Politics, and French Politics and Society. He is currently at work on a book that examines terrorism and transatlantic relations. Keeler was witness to the “Battle of Seattle” in 1999, when the World Trade Organization Summit generated violent confrontations between protesters and police.

William W. Keller

Wesley W. Posvar Chair in International Security Studies,
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
office: 412-624-7399
cell: 412-596-0431
bkeller@pitt.edu

Faculty Bio

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Amanda Leff
office: 412-624-4238
cell: 412-337-3350
aleff@pitt.edu

Areas of Expertise

internal security, terrorism, homeland security, China, weapons of mass destruction, proliferation, East Asian economic and security issues, the political economy of multinational corporations, and the arms trade

Background

William W. Keller is a professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and former director of the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies. He is also the former executive director of the Center for International Studies and the research director of the Japan Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Keller's areas of expertise include internal security, terrorism, homeland security, China, weapons of mass destruction, proliferation, East Asian economic and security issues, the political economy of multinational corporations, and the arms trade. He is the author of China's Rise and the Balance of Influence in Asia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007), Hitting First: Preventive Force in U.S. Security Strategy (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006), The Myth of the Global Corporation (coauthor; Princeton University Press, 1998), Arm in Arm: the Political Economy of the Global Arms Trade (Basic Books, 1995), and The Liberals and J. Edgar Hoover: Rise and Fall of a Domestic Intelligence State (Princeton University Press, 1989). He also is the coeditor of the book Crisis and Innovation in Asian Technology (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Martin Staniland

Professor
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
office: 412-648-7656
mstan@pitt.edu
Faculty Bio

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Amanda Leff
office: 412-624-4238
cell: 412-337-3350
aleff@pitt.edu

Areas of Expertise

Western Europe, airline industry, non U.S. government business, European Union, airlines and transportation policy, competition policy, international negotiation

Background

Martin Staniland is a professor in Pitt’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. His research areas include international relations, trade in transportation services, and European Union politics and economic issues. His publications include Falling Friends: The United States and Regime Change Abroad (Westview Press, 1991), American Intellectuals and African Nationalists, 1955-1970 (Yale University Press, 1991), and What Is Political Economy? (Yale University Press, 1987).