Director, Center for Global Studies; Emeritus Research Professor, Political Science

Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago

Areas of Expertise

Theories of world politics; global and regional security systems (especially Europe); and arms production and sales.

Biography

Professor Kolodziej, Emeritus Research Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1973-2001), is currently Director of the Center for Global Studies, a National Resource Center under Title VI of the Department of Education. Professor Kolodziej has also served as Head of the Department of Political Science (1973-77). He is a co-founder and served as the first Director of ACDIS (1983-1986). He was previously a faculty member at the University of Virginia (1962-73) and served as Chair of the Department of Government and Foreign Affairs (1967-69).

Professor Kolodziej has written or edited fourteen books on security, foreign policy, and global politics; contributed more than 100 articles to professional journals; and lectured in over 40 countries around the world. He is the recipient of many grants and awards, notably from the Ford, Rockefeller, and MacArthur Foundations, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, NATO, Smithsonian’s Woodrow Wilson Center, Fulbright, U.S. Institute of Peace, IREX, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), the Center for Advanced Study (University of Illinois), and the US Department of Education (Title VI).

Selected Publications

Books or Edited Collections:

The Uncommon Defense and Congress: 1945-1963 (Ohio State University Press, 1966)

French International Policy under De Gaulle and Pompidou: The Politics of Grandeur (Cornell University Press, 1974)

Making and Marketing Arms: The French Experience and Its Implications for the International System (Princeton University Press, 1987)

ed. with Roger Kanet, Coping with Conflict after the Cold War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996)

ed. A Force Profonde: The Power, Politics, and Promise of Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003)

Security and International Relations (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

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Link(s)

http://cgs.illinois.edu/people/staff

Contact Information

Office

256 Lincoln

Mailing Address

Political Science
361 Lincoln Hall
MC-452

Phone

(217) 333-8965

Fax

(217) 244-5712

Email

edkoloj[AT]uiuc[DOT]edu