Todd S. Sechser is the Pamela Feinour Edmonds and Franklin S. Edmonds, Jr. Discovery Professor of Politics; Professor of Public Policy at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy; and a Senior Fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs.
Yuri Urbanovich received his M.A. in International Relations (with a concentration in International Economic Relations) from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) in 1972 and his Ph.D. in International Relations (with a concentration in International Economic Relations) from the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1984. In the United States he attended and completed programs related to his specialization at both Harvard University (Cambridge, MA; June 1989) and The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH; Summer 1994).
Michael Joseph Smith is the Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of Political and Social Thought at the University of Virginia. A product of public schools in Yonkers, New York, he holds a B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, and an M.Phil. from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. After serving as an Assistant Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard from 1982-85, Prof. Smith came to the University of Virginia in 1986, and has taught a wide variety of courses on human rights, political thought, ethics, and international relations.
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My research examines the politics and political economy of Japan in comparative context. I have an ongoing interest in the political economy of low fertility rates in Japan, looking at: 1) how the decisions of couples not to have children feeds into the policy process as an “exit” signal that individuals are not happy with a system that puts the burden of child-rearing almost entirely on mothers; and 2) how policymakers respond to that signal through changes in welfare and work policies. The former was the focus of my 2006 book
Dr. Philip Potter is a Professor of Politics and the Founding Director of the National Security Policy Center in the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. He serves as a Senior Advisor to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and as a University Expert for the Intelligence Community.
Allan C. Stam is the Dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. Previously he was Director of the International Policy Center at the Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science and Senior research scientist at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. Prior to moving to Michigan in 2007 he was the Daniel Webster Professor at Dartmouth College (2000-2007) and was Assistant Professor at Yale University (1996-2000).
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Political Institutions and Processes
Leadership in the Public Arena
Global Advocacy and Activism
European Union Politics
Experiential Social Entrepreneurship
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Kevin Cope is an associate professor of law at the Law School and faculty affiliate at the Department of Politics.
Cope’s research focuses on the measurement of legal and political phenomena. Substantively, he is most interested in the law and politics of international institutions, migration, and relationships between domestic institutional structure and international behavior.
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