Peter Gourevitch is a Harvard University

Harvard University

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 trained political scientist with expertise in international relations

International relations

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 and comparative politics

Comparative politics

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. In 2005-06, he was a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation

Russell Sage Foundation

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 where he worked on a book comparing managerial oversight with institutional investors from four countries. Concurrently, he was a fellow at The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

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. Gourevitch is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations

Council on Foreign Relations

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 and chairs its selection committee for International Affairs Fellowships. He is also a past president of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs

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 and is currently a Professor of Political Science at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies

Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies

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 at the University of California, San Diego

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Background

He received his B.A. from Oberlin College

Oberlin College

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 and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 1969.

Gourevitch is well known within the International Relations community for having first coined the term "second image reversed" in his 1978 re-examination of Kenneth Waltz

Kenneth Waltz

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's three images theory.

Selected publications

• Political Power and Corporate Control: The New Global Politics
  Global politics
  Global politics is the discipline that studies the political and economical patterns of the world. It studies the relationships between cities, nation-states, shell-states, multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations and international organizations.It has been argued that global...
  
  of Corporate Governance, (with James Shinn), 2005.
• United States—Japan Relations & International Institutions After the Cold War, 1995
• New Challenges to International Cooperation: Adjustment of Firms, Policies and Organizations to Global Competition, 1993.
• The Pacific Region (Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social Science, 1989.
• Politics in Hard Times: Comparative Responses To International Economic Crises, 1986.
• Unions and Economic Crisis: Britain, West Germany, and Sweden, 1984.
• Untangling US Foreign Policy.: An article from: Harvard International Review, 2000.
• Politicas Estrategicas En Tiempos Dificiles, 1994.
• How Shareholder Reforms Can Pay Foreign Policy Dividends, (with James P. Shinn), Council on Foreign Relations, 2002
• France and the Troubled World Economy, (with Stephen Cohen, co-editor), 1982.
• International Industrial Relations Perspectives, (edited by Peter Doeringer, with associate editors Peter Gourevitch, Peter Lange, and Andrew Martin), Macmillan Press, 1981.
• Paris and the Provinces: The Politics of Local Government Reform in France, University of California Press, 1980.

External links

• Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs
• School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
• University of California, San Diego