UCSD - The Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies

Peter F. Cowhey
Dean, IR/PS; Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Communications and Technology Policy

UCSD, IR/PS
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0519
Office #4201

Phone: (858) 534-1946
Fax (858) 534-3939
Email: pcowhey@ucsd.edu

CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
B.S.F.S. Georgetown University, 1970 (Foreign Service)
M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1971
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1977 (Political Science)

EMPLOYMENT

1975-76 Acting Instructor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

1976-77 Acting Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego

1978-83 Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego

1983- Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego

1985-86 Senior Consultant, International Market Planning, AT&T International

1987-88 Associate Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS), University of California, San Diego

1989- Professor of Political Science, and IR/PS, University of California, San Diego

1994-96 Branch Chief for Multilateral and Development Affairs, International Bureau, Federal Communications Commission and also from 1995-97, Senior Counselor for�Economic and Competition Policy of the International Bureau while on leave from UC San Diego

1995-96 Member, US Delegations to APEC Ministerial Conference on Asian Pacific�Information Infrastructure

1997 Chief, International Bureau, FCC (resigned in September 1997 to return to UCSD)

1999-2006 Director, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California (while serving as professor at IR/PS and adjunct professor of Political Science)

HONORS AND AWARDS
I. General Scholastic
Edmond A. Walsh Award, Georgetown University, 1970
NSF Traineeship, 1970-73 (declined 1972-73)
Dean's Fellowship (declined 1973-75)
University Consortium for World Order Studies Fellowship, 1973-75
Ph.D. Examinations passed with Distinction, 1973
Odegard Prize, Department of Political Science, 1974

II. International Relations and Foreign Trade and Investment Research
Co-Director, Working Group of the Council on Foreign Relations, "International Corporate Alliances and the Future of International Cooperation and Competition," 1985-1986
Co-Principal Investigator, "Study of Hegemonic Change in the Pacific Rim," University of California Pacific Rim Research Program, 1987-1988
Co-Principal Investigator, "UCSD Colloquium on International Institutions," 1988-1990 (Ford Foundation grant)
Co-Principal Investigator, "Political Institutions and Policy-Making in Pacific Rim Nations" U. C. Pacific Rim Research Program, 1989-91
Co-Principal Investigator, "The Politics of Economic Integration in the Americas," 1991-1992 (Grant from Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation)
Co-Principal Investigator, "Comparative Foreign Policies and the Commitment to Multilateralism," 1991-1992 (Grant from Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation)
Co-Director, Conference on Comparing Public Policy and Politics in the U.S. and Japan, February 1992
Research Scholar, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, 1992-94
Visiting Scholar, Instituto Juan March (Madrid Spain), Spring 1992
Visiting Scholar, Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo, Winter 1993
Director, Project on International and Security Affairs, University of California, San Diego (1990-1994)
Member, China-Japan-U.S. Trilateral Forum, (1996 --)
Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics, 1997 (offer declined)
Member, Northeast Asian Security Dialogue (1999 --)
Member, Council on Foreign Relations Study Group on International Trade Policy (1999 --)

III. Telecommunications and Services Industries Research
Research grants, UC San Diego Faculty Senate, "International and Domestic Telecommunications Policy," 1981-82
Co-Principal Investigator, "International Services and Telecommunications Policy" American Enterprise Institute (1983-1987)
Rockefeller Foundation International Affairs Fellowship, 1983 (for 1984-1986), "Telematics and the Future of the World Economy"
Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, 1984 (for 1985-1986), "American Foreign Policy and the Restructuring of the International Telecommunications System"
Visiting Scholar, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, University of California, Berkeley, 1984-1985
Visiting Scholar, Communications Program, M.I.T., 1984-1985
Co-Director, Project on U.S.-Mexico Telecommunications Relations, Center on U.S.-Mexico Studies, U.C. San Diego (1987-89)
Co-Director, Project on Comparative Telecommunications Reform in Perspective, Department of Education grant, 1992-93
"Special Act" Awards from the Chief of the International Bureau. 1995 (Foreign Carrier Order), 1996 (Accounting Rate Policy Statement, AT&T International Nondominance Order), and 1997 (International Settlement Rate benchmark NPRM and World Trade Organization negotiation)
Chairman's Special Achievement Award, Federal Communications Commission, for distinguished service to the FCC, Fall 1996 (This is the highest award for non-career employees of the FCC.)
Co-Director, Council on Foreign Relations study group, "Global Communication and Information Policy," 1996
Co-Organizer, International Settlement Rates Conference, Annenberg School of Communications, Winter 1998
Co-Organizer, California E-conomy Project (co-sponsored by Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy and IGCC)
Co-Director, International Workshops on Communications Regulations (2000--)

IV. Energy Research
-NSF Post-Doctoral Fellowship for Energy Studies, 1975
-Faculty Senate Research Grants, 1978 (for European interviewing on energy policy)
-Visiting Scholar, Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University, 1978-79
-Research Grant, International Foundation for Development Alternatives, Nyon Switzerland, 1978-79
-Principal Investigator, "International Geothermal Energy Project," U.S. Department of Energy (1979-1980)
-Co-Principal Investigator, "An Analysis of the Merits of International Oil Agreements," Columbia University Institute for Law and Economics (1980-1981)

TEACHING FIELDS
International Political Economy (Trade and Investment Policy)
Regulation and Public Policy (Telecommunications and Information Policy, Theory of Regulation, Comparative Public Policy)
International Corporate Strategy
Comparative Foreign Policy

PUBLICATIONS

I. Books
The Problems of Plenty: Energy Policy and International Politics, University of California Press (1984).
Profit and the Pursuit of Energy: Markets and Regulations, (co-edited with J. Aronson), Westview Press (1983).
When Countries Talk: Global Telecommunication for the 1990s (with J. Aronson). A book for the International Trade project of the American Enterprise Institute (Ballinger, 1988).
Changing Networks: Mexico's Telecommunications Options, (co-edited with J. Aronson and G. Szekely) (Center for U. S.-Mexico Studies, U. C. San Diego, 1989).
Managing the Worlds Economy: The Consequences of Corporate Alliances, New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press (1993) (with J. Aronson).
Structure and Policy in Japan and the United States: An Institutionalist Approach, (co-edited with Mathew McCubbins) Cambridge University Press (1995) (reprinted in 1997) .

II. Articles
"The Theory of Collective Goods Reexamined" (with Jeffrey Hart), Western Political Quarterly, Fall, 1977.
"Bearing the Burden: Presidential Responsibility for Foreign Policy" (with David Laitin), International Studies Quarterly, 1978.
"The Future of the International Oil Companies and the Probable Evolution of the World Energy System in the Eighties" in Miguel Wionczek (ed.), The Future of the World Hydrocarbons Market (Pergamon Press, 1982).
"Testing Theories of Regime Change: Hegemonic Decline or Surplus Capacity?" (with Edward Long), International Organization, Spring 1983. (Reprinted in Joseph Grieco (ed.), Theories of Hegemony ).
"Las Companias Petroleras Internacionales y El Futuro del Sistema Mundial de Energia", Cuadernos Sobre Prospectiva Energetica, June, 1981. Monograph published by El Colegio de Mexico (Mexico City).
Trade in Services: A Case for Open Markets, (monograph). Published by the Project on Competing in a Changing World Economy, American Enterprise Institute, 1985 (with J. Aronson).
"Trade in Services and Latin America," Published as part of a volume on international trade by Sistema Economico Latino Americano, Caracas, Venezuela, 1985 (with J. Aronson).
"Canada-U.S. Trade in Communication Services: The Prospects for Liberalization." Published in The Management of Transborder Data Flows: U.S.-Canada and Beyond. The proceedings of a Conference. Sponsored by the Canadian Studies Program of Columbia University, (with J. Aronson).
"Trade in Communications and Data Processing" in Robert Stem (ed.), U.S.-Canada Trade in the Service Industries (University of Toronto Press, 1985).
"The Great Satellite Shootout," (with Jonathan Aronson) Regulation, May/June 1985, pp. 27-36.
"Can Telecommunications Networks Save The European Computer and Microelectronics Industries?" (with Jonathan Aronson) in Der Kamp un den Wohlstand von morgen ed. by Alfred Pfaller, (1985).
"Telecom: Le Service Public En Question" (with Jonathan Aronson) in 30 Jours D'Europe , September/October 1985.
"The Politics of U.S. Trade Policy and the Fate of High Technology Industries," Issues in Science and Technology , Spring 1985.
"Trade Talks and the Informatics Sector," International Journal , Winter, 1986/1987, pp. 107-137.
"International Trade and Telecommunications," in Maurice Estabrook and R. Marche (eds.) Telecommunications: A Strategic Perspective on Regional Economic and Business Development (Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 1987).
"Bilateral Telecommunications Negotiations," in Albert Bressand and Kalypso Nikolaides (eds.), Strategic Trends in Services (Cambridge: Ballinger, 1989) (with J. Aronson). Also published in the Overseas Telecommunications Journal of the Research Institute of Telecom Policies and Economics (Tokyo), 1988, No. 2, pp. 32-46 (in Japanese).
"Telecommunications and Foreign Economic Policy," in Paula Newberg (ed.), New Directions in Telecommunications Policy: Vol. 2. Information Policy and Economic Policy (Duke University Press, 1989).
"The Globalization of Telephone Pricing and Services," Chapter Two in James Alleman and Richard Emmerson (eds.), Perspectives on the Telephone Industry: The Challenges for the Future (Cambridge: Ballinger, 1989).
"The International Telecommunications Regime: The Political Roots of High Technology Regimes," International Organization, Spring, 1990. Reprinted in Fritz Kratochwill and Edwin Mansfield (eds.), International Organization: A Reader (New York: Harper Collins, 1993).
"Trade in Services and Changes in the World Telecommunications System," and "Global Diplomacy and National Policy Options for Telecommunications," (with J. Aronson), in J.D. Aronson, P.F. Cowhey, and G. Szekely (eds.), Changing Networks (Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies, 1989).
Peter Cowhey, "States and Politics in American Foreign Economic Policy," in John Odell and Thomas Willett (eds.), Blending Economic and Political Theories (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990).
"Telecommunications," in Gary Hufbauer (ed.), Europe 1992: an American Perspective, (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1990).
"The Agenda of the Leading Nations for the World Economy: A Theory of International Economic Regimes," in Gunter Heiduk and Kozo Yamamura (eds.), Technological Competition and Interdependence (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991) pp. 107-150.
"Future Paths for International Telecommunications Regulation," in Harvey Sapolsky, Eli Noam, and Russ Neuman (eds.) The Telecommunications Revolution (Routledge Kegan, 1991).
"The ITU in Transition," Telecommunications Policy, August, 1991, pp. 298-310.
"A New Trade Order," (with J. Aronson) Foreign Affairs, March 1993 (republished in the Japanese edition of the journal).
"Clinton Will Need Fast-Tech Results," New York Times, January 3, 1993, (with D. Brass)
"Corporate Alliances and Telecom Services," (with J. Aronson) Transnational Data and Communications Report , March/April, 1993.
"Elect Locally -- Order Globally: Multilateral Cooperation and Domestic Politics," in John Ruggie (ed.), Multilateralism Matters (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993).
"Domestic Institutions and the Credibility of International Commitments: The Cases of Japan and the United States," International Organization, April 1993. (Reprinted in Benjamin Cohen and Charles Lipson (eds.), Theory and Structure in International Political Economy , MIT Press, 1999).
"Telecommunications: Market Access Regimes in Services and Equipment," in Peter Gourevitch and Paolo Guerrieri (eds.), New Challenges to International Cooperation: Adjustment of Firms, Policies, and Organizations to Global Competition (Research Monograph Series: IR/PS, UCSD, 1993).
"The Clinton Technology Policy: Boon or Boondoggle?" USA Today Magazine , January 1994.
"The Promise of a New World Information Order" in The Knowledge Economy: The Nature of Information in the Twentieth Century (1993-94 Annual Review of the Institute on Information Studies, Aspen Institute, 1993) (with Margaret McKeown). (Reprinted in Global Information Infrastructure series by the US Information Agency (January 1995)).
"Prospects for Post-Uruguay Round Trade Management," in Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems 4 (1994) (with J. Aronson).
"Public and Private Cooperation on the International Informatics Regime," in Eli Noam and Seisuke Komatsuzaki (eds.), Pacific Basin Telecommunications (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
"Building the Global Information Highway: Toll Booths, Construction Contracts, and Rules of the Road," in William Drake (ed.), The Global Information Infrastructure (New York: A Twentieth Century Fund book, 1995).
"Introduction, Introduction to Part One, Introduction to Part Two, and Conclusion," in Peter Cowhey and Mathew McCubbins (eds.), Structure and Policy in Japan and the United States: An Institutionalist Approach , (Cambridge University Press, 1995) (with Matthew McCubbins).
"The Politics of U.S. and Japanese Security Commitments," in Peter Cowhey and Mathew McCubbins (eds.), Structure and Policy in Japan and the United States: An Institutionalist Approach (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
"The Future Trade and Investment Order of the Pacific Rim: Asean, Nafta, and APEC in the Context of Japanese and U.S. Diplomacy," in P. Gourevitch, T. Inoguchi and C. Parrington (eds.), U.S.-Japan Relations and International Institutions after the Cold War (La Jolla, CA: IR/PS Publications, 1995) (reprinted in Japanese edition of book: NTT Publishing Co., Tokyo, 1997).
"Ballot-box Diplomacy: The War Powers Resolution and the Use of Force," International Studies Quarterly , 41 (Winter 1997), 505-528 (with D. Auerswald).
"The FCC and the Reform of the International Telecommunications Services Market," Euromoney (Winter 1998) (with Laura Sherman).
"America, The Global Telecom Laggard" Wall Street Journal, March 6, 1998, p. A14 (with Scott Blake Harris).
"Do Mergers Threaten Nations?" Los Angeles Times, June 28, 1998, p. M1 (with Jonathan Aronson).
"FCC Benchmarks and the Reform of the International Telecommunications Market," Telecommunications Policy, January 1999.
"The WTO Negotiations and Telecommunications Reform," monograph for the World Bank Trade Policy Support Papers, posted on World Bank web site, September 1999 (with M. Klimenko).
"Dialing for Dollars: The Revolution in Communications Markets," in Jeffrey Hart and Akheem Prasash (eds.), Coping with Globalization (New York: Routledge, 2000) (with J. Richards).
"Keeping the Internet Open: When Doing Nothing is Doing Harm," Telecommunications Policy , Fall 2000 (with F. Bar, S. Cohen, B. de Long, M. Kleeman, and J. Zysman).
"Telecommunications Reform in Developing Countries After the WTO Agreement on Basic Telecommunications Services," Journal of International Development , 12, 265-281, (2000), (with M. Klimenko).
"Right Target, Wrong Weapon," Financial Times , September 12, 2000, p. 17 (with J. Aronson).
"Implementing Telecommunications Liberalization in the Developing Countries after the WTO Agreement on Basic Telecommunications Services" in Robert Stern (ed.), Services in the International Economy, University of Michigan Press, forthcoming (with M. Klimenko).
"Northeast Asia and 'stealth d�tente'," San Diego Union-Tribune, January 28, 2000, p. B-11.
"The Next Generation Internet: Promoting Innovation and User - Experimentation," in Robert Litan (ed.), (forthcoming), (with Bur, Cohen, de Long, Kleeman, and Zysman).

Publications in Preparation
"The Institutional Foundations of International Services Markets: Comparing Aviation and Telecommunication," (in preparation) (with J. Richards).
"Global Governance and the Internet," (in preparation).
"The WTO and NAFTA: Analyzing Alternative Mechanisms to Integrating The North American Communications Markets," in Paolo Guerrieri (ed.), Global Communications Markets

IV. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
U.S. Government Service
September 1994 to July 1996: Chief of Multilateral and Development Affairs Branch, International Bureau, FCC. (Supervised all FCC participation in international telecommunications negotiations and consultations.)
November 1995 to March 1997: Senior Counselor for International Economic and Competition Policy, International Bureau, FCC. (In charge of policy planning on all matters involving international competition and trade policy for FCC.)
March 1997 to September 1997: Chief of the International Bureau, FCC.
Telecommunications. Foreign Trade and International Political Economy
Consultant, United Nations Center on Transnational Corporations, 1985 (Paper prepared on trade and investment in service industries).
Co-director of Council on Foreign Relations "Project on International Joint Ventures in the World Economy," (1985-86).
Co-Principal Investigator, "International Services and Telecommunications Policy," American Enterprise Institute, 1983-87.
Consultant and Lecturer, ATT Communications and ATT Training Institute, 1984-1987.
Lecturer, Bell Corp. Training Center (Regional phone companies), 1985-1987.
Consultant, Port of Seattle (international value added network project), 1987.
Co-Director, "Conference on U.S.-Mexico Telecommunications Relations," Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies, U.C.S.D., 1987.
Investigator, Markle Foundation Project on Communications Policy, 1988 (Paula Newberg, Principal Investigator).
Investigator, Brookings Institution Project on Europe in 1992, 1989 (Gary Hufbauer, Principal Investigator).
Co-Principal Investigator, "UCSD Colloquium on International Institutions," 1989.
Member, Advisory Board, Project Promothee (A French research institute on international economic policy), 1985-1994.
Member, Board of Editors, International Organization 1989-94. (Executive Board, 1990-92).
Member, Board of Editors, International Political Economy Yearbook, 1987-1992.
Member, Telecommunications Advisory Council, A.T. Kearney Corporation, 1988-1991.
Member, International Advisory Board, The International Center for Telecommunications Management, University of Nebraska, 1988-1993.
Consultant, Bell Corp. Project on Comparative National Regulation, 1990.
Chair, Project on International and Security Affairs, University of California, San Diego, 1990-1994.
Secretary, Northwest Business Executives for Clinton, 1992.
Member, Committee on The Consequences of Communications, Computers and the Entertainment Industries, National Research Council, 1992-1993.
Consultant, Pacific Telesis International, 1992 (regulation of the European market).
Lecturer, U.S. Information Service, Japan (Winter 1993 and Fall 1999).
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Member, Twentieth Century Fund study on the Global Information Infrastructure, 1993-1994.
Member, City of San Diego's Task Force on the Information Infrastructure for San Diego, 1993-94.
Co-Organizer, Council on Foreign Relations study group on Global Information policy, 1996.
Member, Secretary General's Ad Hoc Group of Experts on International Settlement Rates, International Telecommunications Union, 1997-1998.
Co-organizer, California E-conomy Project, 1999--
Member, Council on Foreign Relations study group on international trade policy, 1999--

Energy
Consultant, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1981-84 (on energy research priorities).
Member, Energy Advisory Board, City of San Diego, 1983-1984.
Member, Mayor's Task Force on Energy Policy in the Year 2000, 1980 (City of San Diego).
Co-Principal Investigator, Project on International Petroleum Agreements, Institute on Law and Economic Studies, Columbia University School of Law, 1981.
Consultant, President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties (1980). (Paper prepared on international oil diplomacy in the next decade).
Principal Investigator and Project Director, International Geothermal Energy Project, Earl Warren Legal Institute, University of California, Berkeley (project funded by U.S. Department of Energy), 1979-1980.
Consultant, U.S. Department of Energy, "Data Validation Project," 1978.
Consultant, California Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, "Solar Energy Project," 1976-77.
Consultant, Energy Research and Development Administration, "Energy Conservation Project," 1975.