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Charles Lipson |
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| Major Areas of Interest: | - International Relations; - International Political Economy; - Modern International History. |
| Selected Publications: | - Reliable Partners: How Democracies Have Made a Separate Peace; - Standing Guard: Protecting Foreign Capital in the 19th and 20th Centuries; - "The Rational Design of International Institutions" (with Barbara Koremenos and Duncan Snidal) in International Organization (2001). |
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| Webpage: | http://www.charleslipson.com |
| Phone: | (773) 702-8053 |
| Office: | Pick 418B |
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Charles Lipson is Professor of Political Science, specializing in international relations and international political history. He is Co-Director of the Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security (PIPES) and its workshop for graduate students.
Professor Lipson's most recent book on international relations, Reliable Partners: How Democracies Have Made a Separate Peace (2003), explains one of the most striking features in world politics: why democracies do not fight wars against each other. He has also written extensively on international trade, debt, and investment, including a book, Standing Guard: Protecting Foreign Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. His most recent work deals with the problems of forging international order after the Cold War.
Besides his scholarship on international relations, Professor Lipson also writes about education and academic integrity. His book, Doing Honest Work in College: How to Prepare Citations, Avoid Plagiarism, and Achieve Real Academic Success (2004), is the first book for students to deal comprehensively with these issues. He has just published another book, How to Write a BA Thesis (2005), to help students research and write their senior thesis. He is currently working on versions of both books for graduate students.
Lipson is a highly regarded teacher and has won a University prize for his graduate courses.
