Peter Gourevitch

Peter Gourevitch is a Harvard University trained political scientist with expertise in international relations and comparative politics. In 2005-06, he was a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation where he worked on a book comparing managerial oversight with institutional investors from four countries. Concurrently, he was a fellow at The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Gourevitch is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and chairs its selection committee for International Affairs Fellowships. He is also a past president of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs and is currently a Professor of Political Science at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

Background

He received his B.A. from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 1969.

Gourevitch is well known within the International Relations community for having first coined the term "second image reversed" in his 1978 re-examination of Kenneth Waltz's three images theory.

elected publications

*"Political Power and Corporate Control: The New Global Politics of Corporate Governance", (with James Shinn), 2005.
*"United States--Japan Relations & International Institutions After the Cold War", 1995
*"New Challenges to International Cooperation: Adjustment of Firms, Policies and Organizations to Global Competition", 1993.
*"The Pacific Region (Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social Science", 1989.
*"Unions and Economic Crisis: Britain, West Germany, and Sweden", 1984.
*"Untangling US Foreign Policy.: An article from: Harvard International Review", 2000.
*"Politicas Estrategicas En Tiempos Dificiles", 1994.
*"How Shareholder Reforms Can Pay Foreign Policy Dividends", (with James P. Shinn), Council on Foreign Relations, 2002
*"France and the Troubled World Economy", (with Stephen Cohen, co-editor), 1982.
*"International Industrial Relations Perspectives", (edited by Peter Doeringer, with associate editors Peter Gourevitch, Peter Lange, and Andrew Martin), Macmillan Press, 1981.
*"Paris and the Provinces: The Politics of Local Government Reform in France", University of California Press, 1980.

ee also

*List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2005

External links

* [http://www.apsia.org Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs]
* [http://irps.ucsd.edu School of International Relations and Pacific Studies]
* [http://www.ucsd.edu University of California, San Diego]