Current Projects
Gourevitch is currently studying corporate governance systems in a globalizing world economy, comparing differences in the way countries structure companies and their relationship to shareholders.

Perspective
Gourevitch can provide commentary on questions of international relations, international trade, domestic politics in relation to international trade issues, and comparative politics in advanced industrial countries of North America, Europe and Asia. He speaks fluent French, and has lectured and taught in that language.

Publications of Note
Gourevitch has a new book Political Power and Corporate Control: the New Global Politics of Corporate Governance forthcoming from Princeton University Press, Summer 2005. His previous major book, Politics in Hard Times: Comparative Responses to International Crisis has been published in Spanish, Italian, and Korean. He also published an article on corporate governance in Yale Law Journal, 2003. Other publications deal with U.S.-Japan relations, international relations after the Cold War, Europe and France.

Background Notes
Gourevitch was elected in 1996 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the founding dean of IR/PS, where he served from 1986 to 1998. He co-edited International Organization with David Lake from 1996 -2001. He taught at Harvard from 1969-74, at McGill from 1974-79 and joined UCSD's political science department in 1979. He has a a B.A. in political science from Oberlin College (1963) and Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University (1969). He is a widower with two sons, Alex, 26, and Nick, 23.

Updated: March 2005

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