Professor, Director of Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order

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Rodger A. Payne is the coauthor of Democratizing Global Politics (State University of New York Press, 2004) and the author of more than 30 academic journal articles and book chapters in edited volumes. He previously taught at Northwestern University for two years and was a visiting research fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation, and the Program on International Politics, Economics and Security at the University of Chicago. Payne received a Dissertation Fellowship from the International Peace and Security Studies Program co-sponsored by the Social Science Research Council and MacArthur Foundation and was a member of the two-person 1983 National Debate Tournament championship team from the University of Kansas.

Research Interests

• global environmental politics
• nuclear nonproliferation
• American foreign policy
• deliberative democracy
• the democratization of international institutions

Selected Publications

• “Neorealists as Critical Theorists: The Purpose of Foreign Policy Debate,” 5 Perspectives on Politics, (September 2007), 503-14. Abstract
• “The Emerging Consensus for Preventive War,” 48 Survival, (Summer 2006), 115-36. Coauthored with Peter Dombrowski. Abstract  
• "Persuasion, Frames and Norm Construction," 7 European Journal of International Relations (March 2001), 37-62. Abstract 
• "The Limits and Promise of Environmental Conflict Prevention; The Case of the GEF" 35 Journal of Peace Research, (May 1998), 363-380. Abstract
• "Deliberating Global Environmental Politics," 33 Journal of Peace Research, (May 1996), 129-136. Extract 
• "Freedom and the Environment" 6 Journal of Democracy, (July 1995): 41-55. Abstract

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Professional Affiliations

• American Political Science Association
• International Studies Association
• Society for American Baseball Research