Allison Stanger is the Russell Leng '60 Professor of International Politics and Economics and Director of the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs at Middlebury College. Her most recent book, One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy, was published by Yale University Press in fall 2009. Stanger has published op-eds on this topic in the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, The New York Times, and the Washington Post. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Academic Leadership Council of Business for Diplomatic Action. She was also a contributor to the Booz Allen Hamilton project on the World’s Most Enduring Institutions, the Woodrow Wilson School Task Force on the Changing Nature of Government Service, and the Princeton Project on National Security.
Stanger received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. She also holds an A.M. in Regional Studies-Soviet Union (Harvard), a graduate diploma in Economics (London School of Economics), and a B.S. in Actuarial Science/Mathematics (Ball State University). She has studied foreign languages and literature at Charles University (Prague), the Sorbonne (Paris), and the Pushkin Institute (Moscow).
Professor Stanger is also the co-editor and co-translator (with Michael Kraus) of Irreconcilable Differences? Explaining Czechoslovakia’s Dissolution (foreword by Václav Havel) and the author of numerous articles and essays. Her research has been funded by the International Relations and Exchanges Board, the National Council for Soviet and East European Research, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Science Foundation, the Institute for the Study of World Politics, and the MacArthur Foundation. She has been a research fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (Harvard University), Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education (Prague), the Institute for the Study of the USA and Canada (Moscow), the Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C.), and the Center for Science and International Affairs (Harvard University). She served as visiting professor of Government at Harvard University in 2001-2002.
Courses Taught
FYSE 0031: American Constitutional Democracy
FYSE 1134: Empires
PSCI 0089: War
PSCI 0103: Introduction to Comparative Politics
PSCI 0307: The Politics of Virtual Realities
PSCI 0311: American Foreign Policy
PSCI 0324: The Political Development of Western Europe
PSCI 0407: US-European Relations
PSCI 0445: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the State: Voices and Responses
Books
One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy (Yale University Press, 2009).
Irreconcilable Differences? Explaining Czechoslovakia's Dissolution (co-edited and co-translated with Michael Kraus), foreword by Václav Havel (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000).
Recent Articles, Essays, and Book Chapters
“Prejudice and the Shadow of the Past in the Emergence of Cooperation,” in I. William Zartman, ed., Explaining Cooperation Among States (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
“Sie ‘Zbulova’ Une Qytezen, Vendlindjen e gjyshit tim,” in Kostaq Duka, ed., Qyteza dhe Njerezit e saj (Tirana: Albin, 2008)
“The Imperative of Collaboration,” (with Felix Rohatyn), International Herald Tribune, October 24, 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/opinion/24iht-edrohatyn.1.17229315.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=rohatyn%20stanger&st=cse
“Your Tax Dollars at Work: If You Can Find Them,” Washington Post, May 18, 2008. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/16/AR2008051603613.html
Foreign Policy, Privatized" (with Omnivore), New York Times, October 5, 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/opinion/05stanger.html?th&emc=th
"Private Military Corporations: Benefits and Costs of Outsourcing Security," with Mark Eric Williams, Yale Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 2006)
“The Road to Qyteza: A Letter from Albania,” The American Scholar, Vol. 75, no. 4., Autumn 2006
Review of M. Stephen Fish, Democracy Derailed in Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2005) in Democratization, vol. 13, no. 2, April 2006.
“The Profit Motive Goes to War” (with Felix Rohatyn), Financial Times, November 17, 2004.
“How Important are New Constitutions for Democratic Consolidation? Lessons from the Postcommunist States,” Democratization, vol. 11, no. 3, June 2004.
“Leninist Legacies and Legacies of State Socialism in Postcommunist Europe’s Constitutional Development,” in Grzegorz Ekiert and Stephen Hanson, eds., Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Research Interests
Comparative Democratization
Ethnic Conflict
European Politics
Globalization and the Privatization of American Power
Social Science Applications of Agent-Based Modeling