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Alexander Ovodenko
Contact
Details
Washington University in St. Louis
Department of Political Science
Seigle 207B, Campus Box 1063
St. Louis, MO 63130
Phone: +1.718.490.7010
Fax: +1.314.935.5856
[email protected]
http://www.alexanderovodenko.com/
Employment
Washington University in St. Louis (September 2014 - present)
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Political Science
Princeton University (September 2013 - June 2014)
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
• Research Community: “Communicating Uncertainty: Science, Ethics, and Politics of
Global Climate Change”
Lecturer, Department of Politics
Education
Princeton University, Ph.D., Politics, 2013
Dissertation. “Pathways of Cooperation: Integrated and Un-integrated International Environmental Governance”
• Winner of the 2014 Virginia Walsh Award for the best dissertation in Science, Technology,
and Environmental Politics (American Political Science Association)
Committee. Robert O. Keohane (chair), Christina L. Davis, Helen V. Milner
Princeton University, M.A., Politics, 2009
Fields. International Relations, American Politics, Formal and Quantitative Methods
Cornell University, A.B., 2006
Fields. Government (magna cum laude), History (summa cum laude)
Book
Regulating the Polluters: Markets and Strategies for Protecting the Global Environment. (In preparation).
Journal
Articles
“Regional Water Cooperation: Creating Incentives for Integrated Management.” Forthcoming. Journal of Conflict Resolution
“The Global Climate Regime: Explaining Lagging Reform.” 2014. Review of Policy Research 31(3):
173-198
“Institutional Diffusion in International Environmental Affairs.” (with Robert O. Keohane) 2012.
International Affairs 88(3): 523-541
“Visions of the Enemy from the Field and from Abroad: Revisiting CIA and Military Expectations
of the Tet Offensive.” 2011. Journal of Strategic Studies 34(1): 119-144
“(Mis)interpreting Threats: A Case Study of the Korean War.” 2007. Security Studies 16(2): 254-286
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Other
Publications
“Danube River Cooperation in Comparative Perspective.” Danube Watch. 2/2013. Published by the
International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (Vienna, Austria).
Working
Papers
“Public Goods from the Powerful: Industry Concentration and International Environmental Regulation”
– Presented at the 2013 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 2013 American Political Science
Association Annual Meeting, Columbia University (invited talk October 2013), 2014 International Studies Association Annual Convention, 2014 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington University in
St. Louis.
“The Political Economy of Institutional Design: Sectors and Global Environmental Governance”
(under review )
– Presented at the 2013 International Studies Association Annual Convention, 2014 International Studies Association
Annual Convention, 2015 International Studies Association Annual Convention.
“Stages of Development in Global Environmental Governance” (under review )
– Presented at Columbia University (April 2014), 2014 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting.
Works In
Progress
“The Politics of Shale Energy Development in the United States” (with Patrick Bayer)
“Regulation of Industrial and Diffuse Pollution in European River Basins”
– Presented at the 2015 International Studies Association Annual Convention
Presentations
Conferences. American Political Science Association (2012, 2013, 2014); International Studies Association (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015); Midwest Political Science Association (2012, 2013); Political
Economy of International Organizations (2012, 2014 [discussant])
Invited talks. Columbia University (October 2013); Yale University (November 2011); Royal Institute
for International Affairs (October 2011)
Workshops organized. (i) Columbia University (April 2014), “Advancing International Climate Change
Cooperation,” with Scott Barrett and Johannes Urpelainen; (ii) Columbia University (October 2014),
Book workshop on “Regulating the Polluters: Markets and Strategies for Protecting the Global Environment”
Recent
Fieldwork
International Negotiations. (i) 32nd Open-Ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (Bangkok, Thailand); (ii) Joint 9th Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention and 23rd
Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (Bali, Indonesia); (iii) 5th Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on a legally binding instrument on mercury (Geneva, Switzerland); (iv)
1st Plenary of the Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
(Bonn, Germany)
National Ministries/Agencies. (i) United Kingdom, (ii) United States, (iii) Austria, (iv) Finland
International Organizations. (i) World Bank; (ii) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change Secretariat; (iii) European Commission, DG-CLIMA; (iv) International Commission for the
Protection of the Danube River; (v) Helsinki Commission
Fellowships,
Grants &
Awards
Graduate Fellowship (2012-13), Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton
University
Travel Grant ($1,200), Niehaus Center for Globalization & Governance, Princeton University, April
2013
Travel Grant ($3,100), Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University, April 2012
Dean’s Fund for Scholarly Travel, Princeton University, April 2012 & March 2013
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Travel Grant ($5,000), Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, Princeton University,
November 2011
Travel Grant ($3,000), Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University, June 2011
Travel Grant ($4,400), Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, Princeton University, June
2011
Merit Prize ($2,000), Niehaus Center for Globalization & Governance, Princeton University, March
2007
Junior Fellowship (2006-07), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (declined)
Additional
Training
University of Essex, Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection (Summer 2009):
Semi-parametric and non-parametric statistical methods
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
(Summer 2008): Maximum likelihood estimation and Bayesian statistical modeling
Teaching &
Advising
“International Environmental Politics” (Spring 2015), Washington University in St. Louis
“International Institutions” (Fall 2014), Washington University in St. Louis
“Research Methods Lab” (Fall 2013), Princeton University, Assistant to Dr. Peter Locke
Senior Thesis Adviser (2013-14), Department of Politics, Princeton University
Teaching Transcript Program (Spring 2011 – Summer 2012), Princeton University
“Intelligence, National Security and the Constitutional Democracy” (Spring 2011), Princeton University, Assistant to Dr. Diane A. C. Snyder
“International Relations” (Spring 2010), Princeton University, Assistant to Prof. Andrew Moravcsik
“International Relations” (Fall 2009), Princeton University, Assistant to Prof. Christina L. Davis
Referee
Service
Asian Security
International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economies
Peace & Change: A Journal in Peace Research
Review of International Studies
Comparative Political Studies
The MIT Press
References
Robert O. Keohane
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
[email protected]
Christina L. Davis
Woodrow Wilson School
Department of Politics
Princeton University
[email protected]
Scott Barrett
School of International and Public Affairs
Earth Institute
Columbia University
[email protected]
Helen Milner
Woodrow Wilson School
Department of Politics
Princeton University
[email protected]
Michael Oppenheimer
Woodrow Wilson School
Department of Geosciences
Princeton University
[email protected]
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last updated 3 February 2015
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