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Curriculum Vitae
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Office: 261 Humphrey Center
Phone: 612-626-3194
E-mail: barne293@umn.edu
Areas of expertise: Middle East; humanitarianism; international affairs; international organizations
Michael Barnett is the Harold Stassen Chair of International Relations at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and an adjunct professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. He previous taught at the University of Wisconsin, Macalester College, Wellesley College, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has been a visiting scholar at the New School for Social Research and the Dayan Center at Tel-Aviv University.
Barnett teaches and does research on international relations, international organizations, humanitarian action, the United Nations, and the politics of the Middle East. His dissertation won the 1991 APSA's Gabriel Almond Award for Best Dissertation in Comparative Politics and the book based on the dissertation, Confronting the Costs of War: Military Power, State and Society in Egypt and Israel (Princeton, 1992), won the ISAs Quincy Wright award. His other major books are Dialogues in Arab Politics: Negotiations in Regional Order (Columbia University Press, 1998); Security Communities (Cambridge University Press, 1998), which he co-edited with Emanuel Adler; Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda (Cornell University Press, 2002); and, with Martha Finnemore, Rules for the World: International Organizations in World Politics (Cornell University Press, 2004). His scholarly writings have appeared in major professional journals, including International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, World Politics, and Cultural Anthropology. From 1993 to 1994 Barnett was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow at the U.S. mission to the United Nations.
Courses taught for the Humphrey Institute
For syllabi for the current semester, view the University of Minnesota's Course Guide. For syllabi for public affairs classes for Fall 2007 or earlier, view the Humphrey Institute's course syllabi web page.
Syllabi includes current and previous academic years only. Syllabi are available in alternative formats. Please send requests to the Humphrey Institute Student Support Services.
Fall 2007
PA 5801-1 - Global Public Policy
PA 5890-1 - Humanitarianism
Spring 2007
PA 5801-1 - Global Public Policy
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