Shale A. Horowitz, Associate Professor

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Office: Bolton Hall, Room 622
Phone: (414) 229-2399
Fax: (414) 229-5021
E-mail: shale@uwm.edu
Curriculum Vita: Vita (pdf 192K)

United Nations Summer Seminar Information:
Yearly five-week program in New York City held each June. For the 2008 Program, see this information flyer (pdf 100kb) and the contact information inside. Updated cost information for next year's program should be available in January 2009.

Degrees:
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (Political Science)
M.A., University of California, Los Angeles (Economics)
B.A., University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests:
Prof. Horowitz's research focuses on international and ethnic conflict, with an emphasis on East and South Asia and on the post-communist world; on the politics of international trade and finance; and on the politics of market transition and institutional change in the post-communist countries and East Asia. He has taught for a year at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and has done research in many countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and in China and Taiwan.

Courses:
Courses he has taught at UWM include ...
Introduction to International Relations (778-175)
The Politics of International Economic Relations (778-330)
International Organization and the United Nations (778-337)
University of Wisconsin System United Nations Summer Seminar (778-337 and 778-338)
Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict (778-371)
Advanced Techniques of Political Science Research (778-702)
Ethnic Conflict (778-711)
International Political Economy (778-818)

Publications:
He is the author of From Ethnic Conflict to Stillborn Reform: The Former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia (Texas A&M University Press, 2005), and co-editor of Identity and Change in East Asian Conflicts: China, Taiwan, and the Koreas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), Human Rights and Societies in Transition: Causes, Consequences, Responses (United Nations University Press, 2004), Conflict in Asia: Korea, China-Taiwan, and India-Pakistan (Praeger, 2002), and The Political Economy of International Financial Crisis: Interest Groups, Ideologies, and Institutions (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001). He is also the author or co-author of articles in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Comparative Studies in Society and History, East Asia, East European Politics and Societies, European Journal of International Relations, European Journal of Political Research, International Interactions, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, Party Politics, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and other journals.

Data used in "Democracy for Peace, or Peace for Democracy? The Post-Communist Experience," Journal of Peace Research 43, 1 (January 2006), can be found at http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Polsci/vita/horowitzdata2.pdf

Data used in "War after Communism: Effects on Political and Economic Reform in the Former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia," Journal of Peace Research 40, 1 (January 2003), can be found at http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Polsci/vita/horowitzdata.pdf.

An addendum to "The Balance of Power: Formal Perfection and Practical Flaws," Journal of Peace Research 38, 6 (November 2001), can be viewed at http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Polsci/vita/horowitzaddendum.pdf.