In January, Rober t Kudrle was appointed to the Orville and Jane Freeman Chair in International Trade and Investment Policy. Kudrle leads the Institute’s Freeman Center for International Economic Policy, which identifies and analyzes the major challenges of an increasingly interdependent global economy. He succeeds Regents Professor Emeritus G. Edward Schuh who retired in November. More

Robert Kudrle
Global Policy chair

"The term ‘global policy’ has replaced ‘foreign policy’ and ‘international affairs’ for good reasons. The traditional view that the important policy-relevant relationships among nations simply consist of a few well-recognized channels misses much of how the world now works. ‘Global policy’ better describes the reality of a broad range of public and private actors in the policymaking process and the myriad connections among groups across national borders.

"Moreover, the term ‘global policy’ should remind us that much nominally ‘domestic’ policy at the national, state, and local levels has a very real global dimension, either because it is constrained by factors beyond national borders or because its effects extend beyond the nation-state. So teaching, research, and public participation in the Global Policy area of the Institute focuses on those aspects of policy that are most global, such as national security, human rights, economic development, and many aspects of international policy cooperation."