IR - International Student Edition: Seeking Security, Prosperity, and Quality of Life in a Changing World

About A. Cooper DruryJames M. ScottRalph G. Carter

James M. Scott is the Herman Brown Chair and Professor of Political Science at Texas Christian University. His primary research and teaching interests are in international relations and foreign policy analysis and he has special interests in U.S. foreign policymaking the role of Congress and U.S. democracy promotion. He has authored/co-authored seven books and more than hundred journal articles book chapters other nonrefereed publications review essays and conference papers. During his career Dr. Scott has earned over two dozen awards from students faculty administration and professional associations including most recently the 2019 Textbook Excellence Award from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association (for IR: International Economic and Human Security in a Changing World Third Edition co-authored with Ralph G. Carter and A. Cooper Drury); the 2018-2019 Distinguished Faculty Lecture Award (Addran College of Liberal Arts Texas Christian University); the 2018 Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Award (International Studies Association Midwest) the 2018 AddRan College of Liberal Arts Division of Social Sciences Award for Distinguished Achievement as a Creative Teacher and Scholar (Texas Christian University) and the 2012 Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar Award (International Studies Association Midwest). Dr. Scott has been active in professional associations serving on the governing boards as conference Program Chair and as President of both the International Studies Association-Midwest (2000) and the Foreign Policy Analysis Section (2001) of the International Studies Association and as a councillor for the Council on Undergraduate Research (2017-2019). He served as associate editor of Foreign Policy Analysis (2009-2015) co-editor of Political Research Quarterly (2015-2018) and lead editor of International Studies Perspectives (2020-present). From 2004-2013 he was the Director of the annual NSF-funded Democracy and World Politics Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates Program. Ralph G. Carter is Piper Professor of Texas Professor and former Chair of the Department of Political Science at Texas Christian University. His areas of specialization include international relations and comparative foreign policy analysis with a particular emphasis on the domestic sources of foreign policy. He is the author coauthor editor or coeditor of eight books or monographs (including this one) as well as more than 50 articles book chapters review essays and other professional publications. He has been an invited scholar to universities in the United States Canada and the United Kingdom. In addition to serving on the Executive Committee and chairing other committees of the International Studies Association he also served as President of ISAs Foreign Policy Analysis section President of ISAs Midwest region Associate Editor of Foreign Policy Analysis and on the editorial boards of Foreign Policy Analysis and International Studies Perspectives. He also served the American Political Science Association as a member of its Program Committee. In addition to over three dozen teaching awards and recognitions in 2006 he became the first person from an undergraduate department to receive the Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Studies Association-Midwest. In 2012 Princeton Review named him as one of The Best 300 Professors and in 2013 the Ralph G. Carter Excellence in Political Science Scholarship was created at TCU. In 2014 he was named one of 10 Piper Professors of Texas and received the TCU Chancellors Award for Distinguished Achievement as a Creative Teacher and Scholar.    A. Cooper Drury is Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Science and Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri. He earned his BA and MA from Michigan State University (1990 1992) and his PhD from Arizona State University (1997). His primary research and teaching interests focus on foreign policy and international political economy. Specifically he studies the causes outcomes and consequences of economic sanctions. Professor Drury has authored or co-authored two books over two dozen articles and chapters. He won the Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar Award and is the three-time winner of the Frank Klingberg Award for Outstanding Faculty Paper at the ISA-Midwest conference. Professor Drury has trained more than 20 doctoral students at the University of Missouri; in 2016 he received the ISA-Midwest Teaching and Mentoring Award and in 2006 he received his Universitys Gold Chalk Award for excellence in graduate education and mentoring. Professor Drury is very active in the profession. He was editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy Analysis served as the program co-chair for the 2016 ISA conference he was co-chair of the 2014 WISC/ISA conference a past-president of both the Foreign Policy Analysis section and ISA-Midwest.