Global Forces and Transformations | Department of Political Science

We share an interest in global forces - economic, religious, and demographic changes; social movements; technological changes; and other globalizing forces that redefine the ability of individuals, families, and groups to form and maintain their own cross-border networks, national identity or redistribute political and economic power; and the processes and structures that channel such global change.

Scott Blinder

Scott Blinder's research focuses on public opinion toward and perceptions of immigration, and more broadly on issues of racial, ethnic, and gender identities in political behavior in the US and Europe. His work examines both the sources of political attitudes and perceptions (for example, in media coverage) and their impact...Read more

Charli Carpenter

My teaching and research interests include the politics of war law, transnational advocacy networks, protection of civilians, humanitarian disarmament, and the role of popular culture in global human security policy. I have a particular interest in the gap between intentions and outcomes among advocates of human security. I work with...Read more

Adam Dahl

My research and teaching interests are in American political thought, democratic theory, the politics of race and indigeneity, and political theories of empire and colonialism. My first book, Empire of the People: Settler Colonialism and the Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought (University Press of Kansas, 2018), examines the constitutive...Read more

Carlene J. Edie

Carlene J. Edie has been a Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst since 1989. She received her PhD from UCLA. Her principal research interests have been in the areas of comparative political economy with a focus on the Anglophone Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa. She is...Read more

Peter M. Haas

My research interests include international relations, international relations theory, international political economy, international environmental politics, international institutions, the science-policy interface, and global governance.

I am currently developing a research project on global issue coupling and global governance. I am currently a member of the editorial boards of Global Environmental Politics,...Read more

Paul Musgrave

Paul Musgrave is assistant professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He studies U.S. foreign policy, international relations theory, and how oil revenues change political institutions. His research has appeared in International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, American Politics Review, and International Theory. He has written for The Washington...Read more

timothy pachirat

author of every twelve seconds; among wolves; "the tyranny of light;" "dispatches from the kill floor;" "the ethnographer's potion;" "sanctuary;" "we call it a grain of sand;" + others.

MJ Peterson

My research interests include world politics, international institutions, international political economy, technology, technological change, and ethics in science and engineering.

I am also one of two UMass advisers for the Five College International relations Certificate. To make an appointment to talk about it, go to SSC Navigate, then...Read more

Regine A. Spector

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I teach comparative political economy, development, energy and Central Asian politics courses. My current research examines New England energy politics and electric grid reform, and the climate implications of our energy and water use...Read more

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