Research
After a period of rapid expansion with many new faculty positions, Minnesota now is an overwhelmingly young department. While we remain a national leader in our traditional strengths – political psychology, constructivist international relations, feminist theory, and the history of political thought – our predominantly young faculty are taking the department in new directions, including democratization, identity politics, American institutions, applied quantitative methods, and Latin American politics.
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Kathryn Sikkink
Kathryn Sikkink works on the role of ideas and norms in the international system and in domestic politics, with emphasis on the origins and effects of international human rights ideas and regimes. She is especially interested in how transnational social movements and networks have developed new norms and pressured states and international organization to change practices. Her current research focuses on the dramatic increase in international, foreign, and domestic human rights trials in the world. She was recently named a Regents Professor for the University.
January 28th, 2007