Published Dissertations
Bahar Rumelili, Constructing Regional Community and Order in Europe and Southeast Asia (Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies) (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2008)
Alison Kadlec, Dewey's Critical Pragmatism (Lexington Books, 2007)
Mihaela Mihailescu, Dampening the Powder Keg- The Role of Democratic Oppositions in Fostering Ethnic Peace in Post Communist Romania and Slovakia (VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K, 2007)
Emanuele Saccarelli, Gramsci and Trotsky in the shadow of Stalinism: The Political Theory and Practice of Opposition (Studies in Philosophy) (Routledge Press, 2007)
Bill Gorton, Karl Popper and the Social Sciences (Albany: SUNY Press, 2006)
Radoslav Dimitrov, Science and International Environmental Policy: Regimes and Nonregimes in Global Governance (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005)
Robert Andolina, Multi-Ethnic Transnationalism: Indigenous Development in the Andes (Duke University Press, 2005)
Joel Olson, The Abolition of White Democracy (University of Minnesota Press, 2004)
Sam Chambers, Untimely Politics (New York University Press, 2003)
Scott Erb, German Foreign Policy: Navigating a New Era (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Press, 2003)
Catherine Guisan-Dickinson, Etude sur les principes d'éthique politique fondant l'intégration européenne (Paris: Editions Odile Jacob, 2003)
Laura Janara, Democracy Growing Up: Authority, Autonomy, and Passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America (Albany: SUNY Albany Press, 2002)
Diana Saco, Cybering Democracy: Space, Technology, and the Body in the Age of the Internet (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002)
Ann Marie Clark, Diplomacy of Conscience: Amnesty International and Changing Human Rights Norms (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001)
Jennifer S. Holmes, Terrorism and Democratic Stability (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001;) (Revised second edition coming out in 2008 as Terrorism and Democratic Stability Revisited)
Robert Martin, The Free and Open Press: The Founding of American Democratic Press Liberty, 1640-1800 (New York: New York University Press, 2001)
Bruce Baum, Rereading Power and Freedom in J.S. Mill (Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2000)
Steven Gerenscer, The Skeptic's Oakeshott (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000)
Mark Smith, American business and political power : public opinion, elections, and democracy (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000)
Barbara Cruikshank, The Will to Empower: Democratic Citizens and Other Subjects (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999)
Jutta Weldes, Constructing National Interest: the United States and the Cuban Missile Crisis (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999)
Andrew Davison, Hermeneutics and Modernity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998)
Mark Mattern, Acting in Concert: Music, Community, and Political Action (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998)
Steven Taylor, Desegregation in Boston and Buffalo: The Influence of Local Leaders (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998)
Sarah Binder, Minority Rights, Majority Rule: Partisanship and the Development of Congress (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). This dissertation won the Schattschneider Award for best dissertation in American politics from the American Political Science Association in 1997.
Kurt Burch, "Property" and the Making of the International System (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1997)
Amy Fried, Muffled Echoes: Oliver North and the Politics of Public Opinion (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997)
Forrest Maltzman, Competing Principles: Committees Parties, and the Organization of Congress (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997)
These students were members of entering classes that typically numbered 10 - 12 students. The list of dissertations appearing as books draws upon all subfields of the graduate program.