ALEXANDRA GUISINGER

Professor Guisinger pecializes in international relations theory, crisis diplomacy, and international political economy. Her dissertation, “Understanding Cross-Country Patterns in Trade Liberalization,” spans comparative political economy and international relations to explore what determines a country's trade policy choices. Focusing on previously neglected diffusion processes, she argues that countries' trade protection policies are interdependent and thus highly dependent on the policies of peers as well as trading partners. In a similar manner, she is currently working on a series of papers examining both domestic and international determinants of capital controls.

From her other research agenda concerning diplomacy, a recent paper with co-author Alastair Smith, “Honest Threats: The Interaction of Reputation and Political Institutions in International Crises,” was published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution. (A.B., Harvard University , 1994; M.A., Yale University ; Ph.D., Yale University, 2005)

Link to curriculum vitae: Guisinger_cv (pdf)