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Michael Lee

Michael Lee

Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization
Int'l Relations; Int'l Pol Economy; Int'l Security; Pandemics; Populism; Quant. Research Methodology

Michael Lee is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science.

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Education

  • Ph.D., Indiana University, 2012
  • B.A., University of Toronto, 2006

Courses

POLSC 27000: Intro to International Relations
POLSC 27500: Politics of the Global Economy
POLSC 27800: International Organizations
POLSC 37600: International Political Economy
POLSC 38600: Politics of Finance

Areas of Specialization

  • International Relations
  • International Political Economy (politics of financial crises, political economy of foreign policy)
  • International Security (causes of war, geography and war)
  • Pandemics
  • Populism
  • Quantitative Research Methodology

Selected Publications

Books


  • 2021. From Malaise to Meltdown: The International Origins of Financial Folly, 1844-, Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.

Articles


  • 2024. "Securing securities: political risk, sovereign debt, and the Anglo-American financial power transition," Business and Politics, Online first: 1-21.
  • 2022. "A Populist World Order: Origins and Predictions," Cosmos + Taxis, 10(9+10): 94-112.
  • 2019. "Populism or Embedded Plutocracy? The Emerging World Order," Survival, 61(2): 53-82.
  • 2018. "Opening the Black Box of Finance: North-South Investment, Political Risk, and U.S. Military Intervention," Political Studies, 67(4): 872-894.
  • 2017. "Multiple Baskets: Diverse Racial Frames and the 2016 Republican Primary", New Political Science, 39(4): 631-650.
  • 2017. “Going Beyond the Existing Consensus: The Use of Games in International Relations Education,” with Zachary Shirkey , PS: Political Science,  50(2): 571-575.
  • 2016. “How many lightbulbs does it take to change the financial system? Economic Ideas and Financial Regulation, 1846-2007” in British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 18: 868-888.
  • 2016. "Formal and Informal International Institutions and the Regulation of the Flow of Money" in Compendium Project, International Studies Association.

 

Book Chapters


  • 2021. Free Trade in Peril, in András Sajo, Renáta Uitz, and Stephen Holmes, eds. Routledge Handbook of Illiberalism, 878-887. London: Routledge.
  • 2018. Analyzing the 2016 Republican Primary Using a Tobit Model, SAGE Research Methods Cases, London: SAGE Publishing.
  • 2017. What do we know about Global Financial Crises? Putting Economics and IPE in conversation, in William R. Thompson, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations Theory. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • 2017. "Major Powers vs. Global Powers: A New Measure of Global Reach and Power Projection Capacity", in  William R. Thompson, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations Theory. New York: Oxford University Press. (forthcoming, with William Thompson)
  • 2014. "The Gnomes of Zurich Meet the Dogs of War: Financial Leadership and Regulation, 1850-2013" in Thomas Oatley and William Winecoff, eds., Research Handbook on International Political Economy of Monetary Relations, 364-388, Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • 2009. "Falling Down: An Empirical Test of Dynamic Differentials Theory 1500-1999" in William Thompson, ed., Systemic Transitions: Past, Present and Future, 75-100, New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Office Hours

Day Time Location
Tuesday 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm HW 1721
Friday 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm HW 1721

Contact Details

Michael Lee

Political Science
68th Street West 1721
(212) 396-6588
michael.lee@hunter.cuny.edu

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