International Relations
At Notre Dame, the international relations program possesses a large faculty that is growing in size and national reputation, a number of research centers devoted to international issues, rich library resources, and exceptional funding and research support.
Nine Political Science faculty specialize in international relations. The size of our IR faculty allows us to combine a focus in peace and conflict studies with coverage across most subfields. International Relations students take advantage of Notre Dame's renowned resources in the complementary field of comparative politics.
Faculty Specialties
The methodologically diverse International Relations faculty encourages students to conduct their research in the way most appropriate to their topics and questions.
- Barbara Connolly
International Cooperation; Environmental Policy - Alexandra Guisinger
International Political Economy; Crisis Bargaining - Robert Johansen
United Nations; Global Governance; Peace studies - Keir Lieber
Security Studies; IR Theory; U.S. Foreign Policy - Dan Lindley
Security Studies; Ethnic Conflict; Peace Keeping; U.S. Foreign Policy - George Lopez
Economic Sanctions; Peace Research; Human rights - Peter Moody
Chinese Politics; Asia - Daniel Philpott
Sovereignty; Normative Theory
Research Centers
The Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies host speakers series and conferences and sponsor various publications. Both are sources of funding, research support, and cross-discipline intellectual engagement.
Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
The Kellogg Institute performs a similar function in the fields of comparative politics (with a focus on Latin America), development, democratization, and social movements.
Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
The Kroc Institute brings together faculty from many Notre Dame departments, visiting scholars and fellows, and masters and Ph.D. students from around the world to study issues ranging from peace and conflict to justice, human rights, globalization, and global governance.
Other Related Centers
- Nanovic Institute for European Studies (headed by James McAdams, a member of the Department of Political Science)
- Center for Civil and Human Rights at the University of Notre Dame Law School
- Erasmus Institute (which focuses on religion, philosophy, and the social sciences)
- Keough Center for Irish Studies
- Medieval Institute
- Institute for Latino Studies
- Center for Social Concerns
Financial Support
The International Relations graduate program offers a very competitive five years of scholarship and stipend to most of our Ph.D. students.
Students are not obligated to teaching or research during their first year, but may teach their own courses in later years.
Research and travel is generously funded and several institutes and services help students and faculty obtain internal and external grants. Almost all of our Ph.D. students who seek academic jobs are placed at a university or college within two years of being on the market.
Contact
Benjamin Radcliff, Director of Graduate Studies or
George Lopez, Chair of International Relations Field
Department of Political Science
203 O’Shaughnessy Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
(574) 631-9017