Apply! NCGG Visiting Fellowship Program in Regional Political Economy 2019-20 in USA

Applications are open for NCGG Visiting Fellowship Program in Regional Political Economy 2019-20 in USA.

The Center for Globalization & Governance is part of the Woodrow Wilson School. It began operation in Fall 2004 and is directed by Helen Milner. Carles Boix, Joanne S. Gowa, Gene M. Grossman, Harold James, Stephen Kotkin, Elizabeth Levy Paluck, Andrew Moravcsik, Grigore Pop-Eleches, Cecilia E. Rouse, and James R. Vreeland make up its executive committee.
Their mission is three-fold. First, they seek to create a large and dynamic community of scholars and students interested in both the academic and policy dimensions of globalization and international governance. To accomplish this, the Center directs two visiting fellows program in which the most promising, talented scholars working on globalization and governance issues will spend a year at Princeton. The Center strives to create an intellectual community that serves the main goals of the WWS: to tackle the most serious issues of the present day and prepare the leaders who will shape the public policies of the future.

A second element is to foster greater integration among various parts of the social sciences at Princeton University. Research on globalization by necessity involves economics, history, and sociology as well as political science. The Center promotes interdisciplinary research at Princeton; numerous faculty from the WWS, Politics, Economics, History, and Sociology are associated with the Center and involved in its projects. It also seeks to bring together graduate students in the Woodrow Wilson School and in various departments who have interests in globalization issues. And it plays a role in developing more systematic curricular offerings.

The Center promotes engagement with the broader academic and policy community. They will continue to initiate a number of projects that are conducted jointly with other academic and policy institutions. Running these projects under the auspices of the Center within the Woodrow Wilson School facilitates these wide-ranging partnerships. Center-sponsored lectures and conferences bring in high-level officials from the American government and international organizations. They continue to foster a collaborative effort to inspire their students to pursue careers in these areas. In sum, the Center strives to develop a tight-knit intellectual community at Princeton and promote ties between the academic and policy communities involved in globalization and international governance issues.

The Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance (NCGG) at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs seeks two visitors or more for the Visiting Fellowship Program in a regional political economy for the 2019-2020 academic year. This fellows program is targeted at developing a generation of scholars able to analyze and make policy recommendations about the regional political economy in the Middle East, East, South, or Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America. The Center invites candidates with a background in economics, political science, contemporary history, sociology, law, business, and other disciplines bearing on the study of markets, politics, and economic development, focusing on the regions of the Middle East, East, South, or Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America to apply. Scholarly work should explore the ways in which the politics within and between a set of countries intersect with natural resource endowments, market conditions, technological and physical infrastructure, and cultural biases to explain existing patterns of economic development and to promote higher levels of development more effectively. Selected candidates will be required to be in residence for the duration of the fellowship (September 1, 2019 – July 1, 2020).