Since 2001, Susan L. Woodward is a professor at the Political Science

Political science

Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

 Program at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)

CUNY Graduate Center

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York brings together graduate education, advanced research, and public programming to midtown Manhattan hosting 4,600 students, 33 doctoral programs, 7 master's programs, and 30 research centers and institutes...

. She is an expert on comparative politics

Comparative politics

Comparative politics is a subfield of political science, characterized by an empirical approach based on the comparative method. Arend Lijphart argues that comparative politics does not have a substantive focus in itself, but rather a methodological one: it focuses on "the how but does not specify...

 and on Balkan

Balkans

The Balkans is a geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe...

 Studies. Previously was a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College

King's College London

King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...

, University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

, and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution

Brookings Institution

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 (1990-99). During her time in Washington DC she taught graduate seminars at Georgetown

Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

, George Washington

George Washington

George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...

, and Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins was a wealthy American entrepreneur, philanthropist and abolitionist of 19th-century Baltimore, Maryland, now most noted for his philanthropic creation of the institutions that bear his name, namely the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the Johns Hopkins University and its associated...

 School for Advanced International Studies. She also taught in Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 (1982-89), Williams College

Williams College

Williams College is a private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams. Originally a men's college, Williams became co-educational in 1970. Fraternities were also phased out during this...

 (1978-82), Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was the first member of the Seven Sisters colleges, and served as a model for some of the others...

 (1977-78), and Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

 (1972-77).

In 1994, she worked for the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for UNPROFOR, and in 1998 she was a special advisor to the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

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She has a Ph.D. and a M.A. from Princeton University

Princeton University

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 and a B.A. from the University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

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Publications

• Susan L. Woodward, “Socialist Unemployment: The Political Economy of Yugoslavia
  Yugoslavia
  Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
  
  , 1945-1990,” Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press (1995).

• Susan L. Woodward, “Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution after the Cold War
  Cold War
  The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
  
  ,” Washington: The Brookings Institution (1995).

• Susan L. Woodward and Stefano Bianchini, eds., “From the Adriatic to the Caucasus
  Caucasus
  The Caucasus, also Caucas or Caucasia , is a geopolitical region at the border of Europe and Asia, and situated between the Black and the Caspian sea...
  
  : Viable Dynamics of Stabilization,” Ravenna: Longo Editore (2003).

• Susan L. Woodward, “Do the Root Causes of Civil War Matter? On Using Knowledge to Improve Peacebuilding Interventions” Journal of Intervention and State-Building volume 1, no. 2 (spring 2007)

• Susan L. Woodward, Astri Suhrke and Espen Villanger; “Economic Aid to Post-Conflict Countries: A Methodological Critique of Collier and Hoeffler,” Conflict, Security, and Development , vol. 5, no. 3 (December 2005).

• Susan L. Woodward, “Kosovo
  Kosovo
  Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...
  
  and the Region: Consequences of the Waiting Game,” in Jeffrey Laurenti, ed., Options for Kosovo’s Final Status (New York: United Nations Association of the United States, January 2000);

• Susan L. Woodward, and Benn Steil; “A European ‘New Deal’ for the Balkans,” 78 Foreign Affairs 95-105 (November-December 1999).

• Susan L. Woodward, “Reforming the Socialist State: Ideology and Public Finance in Yugoslavia,” 41 World Politics 267-305 (January 1989).

• Susan L. Woodward “Orthodoxy and Solidarity: Competing Claims and International Adjustment in Yugoslavia,” 40 International Organization 505-545 (Spring 1986).

• Susan L. Woodward, “‘The Freedom of the People is in its Private Life’: The Unrevolutionary Implications of Industrial Democracy,” 20 American Behavioral Scientist 579-596 (March-April 1977).

• Susan L. Woodward, “From Revolution to Post-Revolution: How Much Do We Really Know about Yugoslav Politics?” 30 World Politics 141-166 (October 1977).