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Alexander Cooley

Alexander Cooley

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Political Science

D-Index
25
Citations
4960
World Ranking
1579
National Ranking
789

Overview

Alexander Cooley is affiliated with Barnard College in the United States and works primarily within the Social Sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Development, Strategy and Management, and Accounting.

Their work focuses on a range of topics, notably:

  • Soviet and Russian History
  • Russia and Soviet political economy
  • International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Middle East
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Central Asia Education and Culture
  • International Development and Aid

Among recent papers authored by Alexander Cooley are:

  • "(No) Exit from liberalism?", 2020, New Perspectives
  • "On the brink and at the world's edge: Western approaches to Central Asia's international politics, 1991-2021", 2021, Central Asian Survey
  • "The Uprisings of Gaza: How Geopolitical Crises Have Reshaped Academic Communities from Tahrir to Kyiv", 2024, Political Science Quarterly
  • "Transnational uncivil society networks: kleptocracy's global fightback against liberal activism", 2023, European Journal of International Relations
  • "Foreign Donations in the Higher Education Sector of the United States and the United Kingdom: Pathways for Reputation Laundering", 2022, Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

Alexander Cooley frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Melbourne Asia Review
  • New Perspectives
  • Central Asian Survey
  • Political Science Quarterly
  • European Journal of International Relations

Cooley has collaborated extensively with a number of scholars including John Heathershaw, Daniel H. Nexon, Morten Skumsrud Andersen, Ricard Soares de Oliveira, and Tena Prelec.

Their book publication includes:

  • "Dictators Without Borders", 2020, Yale University Press

Best Publications

  • The NGO Scramble: Organizational Insecurity and the Political Economy of Transnational Action

    Alexander Cooley;James Ron

  • Who Governs the Globe?: Authority dynamics and governance outcomes

    Deborah D. Avant;Martha Finnemore;Susan K. Sell

  • Contracting States: Sovereign Transfers in International Relations

    Alexander Cooley;Hendrik Spruyt

  • Authoritarianism Goes Global: Countering Democratic Norms

    Alexander Cooley

  • Logics of Hierarchy: The Organization of Empires, States, and Military Occupations

    Alexander Cooley

  • Logics of Hierarchy

    Alexander Cooley

  • Ranking the world : grading states as a tool of global governance

    Alexander Cooley;Jack L. Snyder

  • Dictators Without Borders : Power and Money in Central Asia

    Alexander Cooley;John Heathershaw

  • Base Politics: Democratic Change and the U.S. Military Overseas

    Alexander Cooley

  • Engagement without Recognition: A New Strategy toward Abkhazia and Eurasia's Unrecognized States

    Alexander A. Cooley;Lincoln A. Mitchell

  • Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order

    Alexander Cooley;Daniel Nexon

  • “The Empire Will Compensate You”: The Structural Dynamics of the U.S. Overseas Basing Network

    Alexander Cooley;Daniel H. Nexon

  • Principles in the pipeline: managing transatlantic values and interests in Central Asia

    Alexander Cooley

  • Thinking rationally about hierarchy and global governance

    Alexander Cooley

  • The emerging politics of international rankings and ratings: A framework for analysis

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  • Outsourcing authority: how project contracts transform global governance networks

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  • The Rise of Kleptocracy: Laundering Cash, Whitewashing Reputations

    Alexander Cooley;John Heathershaw;J.C. Sharman

  • Revising order or challenging the balance of military power? An alternative typology of revisionist and status-quo states

    Alexander Cooley;Daniel Nexon;Steven Ward

  • Ordering Eurasia: The Rise and Decline of Liberal Internationalism in the Post-Communist Space

    Alexander Cooley

  • Transnational Corruption and the Globalized Individual

    Alexander Cooley;J. C. Sharman

  • Abkhazia on Three Wheels

    Alexander Cooley;Lincoln Mitchell

  • New Silk Route or Classic Developmental Cul-de-Sac? The Prospects and Challenges of China’s OBOR Initiative

    Alexander Cooley

  • 14. The Rise of Global Counternorms

    Alexander Cooley

  • Okinawa: A Crack in the Pacific Pivot to Asia

    Alexander A. Cooley

  • Chapter 3. Severing the Ties That Bind: Sovereign Transfers in the Shadow of Empire

    Alexander Cooley;Hendrik Spruyt

  • Chapter 4. Incomplete Contracting and the Politics of U.S. Overseas Basing Agreements

    Alexander Cooley;Hendrik Spruyt

  • Chapter 5. Incomplete Contracting and Modalities of Regional Integration

    Alexander Cooley;Hendrik Spruyt

  • Chapter 2. A Theory of Incomplete Contracting and State Sovereignty

    Alexander Cooley;Hendrik Spruyt

  • Chapter 1. Incomplete Sovereignty and International Relations

    Alexander Cooley;Hendrik Spruyt

  • Basing Headaches: Why US Overseas Deployments Are Becoming Increasingly Contentious

    Alexander A. Cooley

  • Local Rules on China's New Eurasian Horizon

    Alexander Cooley

  • Afghanistan's other regional casualty

    Alexander A. Cooley

  • Advocacy Organizations and Collective Action: The institutional environment and advocacy organizations

    Aseem Prakash;Mary Kay Gugerty

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel H. Nexon
Daniel H. Nexon Georgetown University
Jack Snyder
Jack Snyder Columbia University
Jason Campbell Sharman
Jason Campbell Sharman University of Cambridge
Marlène Laruelle
Marlène Laruelle Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies
James Ron
James Ron University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jonathan Hopkin
Jonathan Hopkin London School of Economics and Political Science

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