Susan Peterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3744985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Peterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Peterson |
| SIGNATURE | PETERSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | William & Mary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1813-5064 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 207 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
International Relations Scholars, the Media, and the Dilemma of Consensus
Over the last 15 years, scholars, universities, and foundations have promoted numerous efforts to link the scholarly and policy communities of international relations. Increasing evidence suggests that scholars are succeeding in getting their ideas and findings in the press, and their success bodes well for their ability to influence public and elite opinion. Despite these strides, we know little about when journalists may pick up on academic ide…
Gender and Political Expression among International Relations Scholars and the Public
Numerous studies show that women are less likely than men to express attitudes and opinions about politics. To explore the origins of this gender gap, we use data from a series of surveys of the general public and international relations scholars in the United States between 2014 and 2023. These data show that the gender gap in political expression exists, even among knowledge elites; female IR scholars say they don’t know the answer to survey qu…
Can Increasing Awareness of Gender Gaps in International Relations Help Close Them? Evidence from a Scholar Ranking Experiment
We report the results of a survey of international relations (IR) scholars on the use of an increasingly common policy designed to close recognition gaps in IR: gender balance in citation (GBC) statements. GBC statements remind and encourage authors submitting work to peer-reviewed outlets to consider the gender balance among the works they cite. We find that these policies enjoyed wide support among IR scholars in our sample countries soon after…
The Cult of the Relevant: International Relations Scholars and Policy Engagement Beyond the Ivory Tower
Over the past fifteen years, a narrative has developed that IR scholars have become a “cult of the irrelevant,” with declining influence on and engagement with policy debates. Despite these assertions, the evidence for limited policy engagement has been anecdotal. We investigate the extent of policy engagement—the ways in which IR scholars participate in policy-making processes and/or attempt to shape those processes—by surveying IR scholars dire…
Does Social Science Inform Foreign Policy? Evidence from a Survey of US National Security, Trade, and Development Officials
Scholars continue to debate the relationship of academic international relations to policy. One of the most straightforward ways to discern whether policymakers find IR scholarship relevant to their work is to ask them. We analyzed an elite survey of US policy practitioners to better understand the conditions under which practitioners use academic knowledge in their work. We surveyed officials across three different policy areas: international de…
Autonomy and international organisations
Bridging the Theory-Practice Divide in International Relations
The Blind Men and the Elephant: Comparing the Study of International Security Across Journals
We use two major datasets collected by the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) Project to map the international security subfield, examining conventional wisdom about the subfield’s gender composition, theories, methods, and policy relevance. At first glance, articles in security journals appear similar to security articles, in general, political science and international relations field journals on these variables. On closer insp…
Do You Feel Welcome? Gendered Experiences in International Security Studies
Unlike in the broader field of international relations, relatively little research on gender representation and gendered experiences exists within the subfield of security studies. This article begins to fill that gap by sharing the results of a 2019 survey of members of the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) of the International Studies Association (ISA). The survey results show striking gender differences in members’ experiences, wit…
Policy-Relevant Publications and Tenure Decisions in International Relations
Many observers of the international relations (IR) discipline express concern about the decline in policy-relevant research within the academy. Some blame an academic culture and academic institutions that incentivize abstract, quantitative, or theoretical work that speaks to scholarly debates rather than real-world problems. This article asks how IR scholars value both scholarly and policy publications. Using data from the TRIP survey, we found …
Is International Relations a Global Discipline? Hegemony, Insularity, and Diversity in the Field
Using data from the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) project, we address several questions posed by students of the international relations (IR) discipline, specifically, whether and to what extent: US scholars, institutions, and journals dominate the field; national communities of IR scholars are insular or inward-looking; and/or the discipline is theoretically, methodologically, and epistemologically diverse. We draw from two…
Analgesic Access for Acute Abdominal Pain in the Emergency Department Among Racial/Ethnic Minority Patients: A Nationwide Examination
BACKGROUND: Prior studies of acute abdominal pain provide conflicting data regarding the presence of racial/ethnic disparities in the emergency department (ED). OBJECTIVE: To evaluate race/ethnicity-based differences in ED analgesic pain management among a national sample of adult patients with acute abdominal pain based on a uniform definition. RESEARCH DESIGN/SUBJECTS/MEASURES: The 2006-2010 CDC-NHAMCS data were retrospectively queried for pati…
Knowledge without power: International relations scholars and the US war in Iraq
What Pivot? International Relations Scholarship and the Study of East Asia
Scholars of international relations (IR) simultaneously believe that their work is policy-relevant and that a gap exists between the academic and policy worlds of IR. Using data from the 2011 Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) survey and the TRIP journal article database, we explore this disjuncture in one specific area, research on East Asia. If US scholars' work addresses policy-relevant issues, as they believe, we would expect…
International Relations in the US Academy1: International Relations in the US Academy
Using two new data sources to describe trends in the international relations (IR) discipline since 1980—a database of every article published in the 12 leading journals in the field and three surveys of IR faculty at US colleges and universities—we explore the extent of theoretical, methodological, and epistemological diversity in the American study of IR and the relationship between IR scholarship and the policy-making community in the United St…
Women in International Relations
Women now receive political science degrees in record numbers, but female representation among political science faculty still lags behind that of many other disciplines. Only 26% of the 13,000 political science professors in the United States today are women (Sedowski and Brintall 2007). According to our recent survey of international relations faculty in the United States—the 2006 Teaching, Research, and International Politics (TRIP) Survey—wom…
Divided Discipline: Comparing Views of US and Canadian IR Scholars
ProQuest-CSA LLC: ... denotes text stops here in original.)The centre of gravity for the academic discipline of relations is located in the United States, but Canada boasts a vibrant academic community of relations scholars.' Through their teaching, research, and consultations with policymakers, Canadian IR scholars influence how Canadian citizens and policymakers think about world politics, and sometimes directly affect the practice of Canadian …
Epidemic Disease and National Security
(2002). Epidemic disease and national security. Security Studies: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 43-81
Limiting the Unintended Consequences of Institutional Change
Students of institutional change pay insufficient attention to the conditions under which institutional reform produces unintended procedural and policy consequences. The authors contend that the broader institutional context in which an altered institution is embedded influences the likelihood and extent of such unintended outcomes. Three aspects of this environment are particularly important. First, a reformer's access to policy instruments may…
Elections and War: The Electoral Incentive in the Democratic Politics of War and Peace
Journal Article Elections and War: The Electoral Incentive in the Democratic Politics of War and Peace Get access Elections and War: The Electoral Incentive in the Democratic Politics of War and Peace by Kurt Taylor Gaubatz. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1999. 208 pp. $45.00. Susan Peterson Susan Peterson The College of William and Mary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Vo…
The Social Origins of Royalist Political Violence in Directorial Bordeaux
Journal Article THE SOCIAL ORIGINS OF ROYALIST POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN DIRECTORIAL BORDEAUX Get access STEPHEN M. PETERSON STEPHEN M. PETERSON *In December 1993, the author received the degree of Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. He does not currently hold an academic position. The author wishes to thank the Fulbright Commission and the Northwestern University Research Grants Committee for the generous favanrtai support that made…
Democracies and Foreign Policy: Public Participation in the United States and the Netherlands. Bernard C. Cohen America/Américas. Eldon Kenworthy
Crisis Bargaining and the State: The Domestic Politics of International Conflict
Crisis Bargaining and the State: The Domestic Politics of International Conflict
Asymmetric Conflicts: War Initiation by Weaker Powers
International Relations in the US Academy1: International Relations in the US Academy
Using two new data sources to describe trends in the international relations (IR) discipline since 1980—a database of every article published in the 12 leading journals in the field and three surveys of IR faculty at US colleges and universities—we explore the extent of theoretical, methodological, and epistemological diversity in the American study of IR and the relationship between IR scholarship and the policy-making community in the United St…
Women in International Relations
Women now receive political science degrees in record numbers, but female representation among political science faculty still lags behind that of many other disciplines. Only 26% of the 13,000 political science professors in the United States today are women (Sedowski and Brintall 2007). According to our recent survey of international relations faculty in the United States—the 2006 Teaching, Research, and International Politics (TRIP) Survey—wom…
Limiting the Unintended Consequences of Institutional Change
Students of institutional change pay insufficient attention to the conditions under which institutional reform produces unintended procedural and policy consequences. The authors contend that the broader institutional context in which an altered institution is embedded influences the likelihood and extent of such unintended outcomes. Three aspects of this environment are particularly important. First, a reformer's access to policy instruments may…
Epidemic Disease and National Security
(2002). Epidemic disease and national security. Security Studies: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 43-81
Does Social Science Inform Foreign Policy? Evidence from a Survey of US National Security, Trade, and Development Officials
Scholars continue to debate the relationship of academic international relations to policy. One of the most straightforward ways to discern whether policymakers find IR scholarship relevant to their work is to ask them. We analyzed an elite survey of US policy practitioners to better understand the conditions under which practitioners use academic knowledge in their work. We surveyed officials across three different policy areas: international de…
How democracies differ: Public opinion, state structure, and the lessons of the Fashoda crisis
(1995). How democracies differ: Public opinion, state structure, and the lessons of the Fashoda crisis. Security Studies: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 3-37
The Cult of the Relevant: International Relations Scholars and Policy Engagement Beyond the Ivory Tower
Over the past fifteen years, a narrative has developed that IR scholars have become a “cult of the irrelevant,” with declining influence on and engagement with policy debates. Despite these assertions, the evidence for limited policy engagement has been anecdotal. We investigate the extent of policy engagement—the ways in which IR scholars participate in policy-making processes and/or attempt to shape those processes—by surveying IR scholars dire…
Is International Relations a Global Discipline? Hegemony, Insularity, and Diversity in the Field
Using data from the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) project, we address several questions posed by students of the international relations (IR) discipline, specifically, whether and to what extent: US scholars, institutions, and journals dominate the field; national communities of IR scholars are insular or inward-looking; and/or the discipline is theoretically, methodologically, and epistemologically diverse. We draw from two…
Autonomy and international organisations
Divided Discipline: Comparing Views of US and Canadian IR Scholars
ProQuest-CSA LLC: ... denotes text stops here in original.)The centre of gravity for the academic discipline of relations is located in the United States, but Canada boasts a vibrant academic community of relations scholars.' Through their teaching, research, and consultations with policymakers, Canadian IR scholars influence how Canadian citizens and policymakers think about world politics, and sometimes directly affect the practice of Canadian …
Elections and War: The Electoral Incentive in the Democratic Politics of War and Peace
Journal Article Elections and War: The Electoral Incentive in the Democratic Politics of War and Peace Get access Elections and War: The Electoral Incentive in the Democratic Politics of War and Peace by Kurt Taylor Gaubatz. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1999. 208 pp. $45.00. Susan Peterson Susan Peterson The College of William and Mary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Vo…
What Pivot? International Relations Scholarship and the Study of East Asia
Scholars of international relations (IR) simultaneously believe that their work is policy-relevant and that a gap exists between the academic and policy worlds of IR. Using data from the 2011 Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) survey and the TRIP journal article database, we explore this disjuncture in one specific area, research on East Asia. If US scholars' work addresses policy-relevant issues, as they believe, we would expect…
Knowledge without power: International relations scholars and the US war in Iraq
New Bedford's Fish Auction: A Study in Auction Method and Market Power
New Bedford's fish auction began in 1941 as a result of negotiations between the Atlantic Fishermen's Union and the Seafood Producers' Association and has continued to the present under roughly the same rules. The auction is a timed auction where whole boatloads are sold to the highest bidder when the ending bell sounds. However, bidding is by species and size category. This creates four problems: (1) only buyers who have access to dock space can…
Gender and Political Expression among International Relations Scholars and the Public
Numerous studies show that women are less likely than men to express attitudes and opinions about politics. To explore the origins of this gender gap, we use data from a series of surveys of the general public and international relations scholars in the United States between 2014 and 2023. These data show that the gender gap in political expression exists, even among knowledge elites; female IR scholars say they don’t know the answer to survey qu…
Can Increasing Awareness of Gender Gaps in International Relations Help Close Them? Evidence from a Scholar Ranking Experiment
We report the results of a survey of international relations (IR) scholars on the use of an increasingly common policy designed to close recognition gaps in IR: gender balance in citation (GBC) statements. GBC statements remind and encourage authors submitting work to peer-reviewed outlets to consider the gender balance among the works they cite. We find that these policies enjoyed wide support among IR scholars in our sample countries soon after…
The Blind Men and the Elephant: Comparing the Study of International Security Across Journals
We use two major datasets collected by the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) Project to map the international security subfield, examining conventional wisdom about the subfield’s gender composition, theories, methods, and policy relevance. At first glance, articles in security journals appear similar to security articles, in general, political science and international relations field journals on these variables. On closer insp…
Do You Feel Welcome? Gendered Experiences in International Security Studies
Unlike in the broader field of international relations, relatively little research on gender representation and gendered experiences exists within the subfield of security studies. This article begins to fill that gap by sharing the results of a 2019 survey of members of the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) of the International Studies Association (ISA). The survey results show striking gender differences in members’ experiences, wit…
Cumulative Effects at the Local Level
Policy-Relevant Publications and Tenure Decisions in International Relations
Many observers of the international relations (IR) discipline express concern about the decline in policy-relevant research within the academy. Some blame an academic culture and academic institutions that incentivize abstract, quantitative, or theoretical work that speaks to scholarly debates rather than real-world problems. This article asks how IR scholars value both scholarly and policy publications. Using data from the TRIP survey, we found …
Crisis Bargaining and the State: The Domestic Politics of International Conflict
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Canadian Directorship Practices: A Critical Self-Examination
The Living Tradition of Maria Martinez
One of the great figures in modern pottery and crafts, Maria Martinez, along with her husband, Julian, perfected the magnificent burnished black ware which is prized by collectors and museums throughout the United States and Europe. Recipient of the Western Heritage Award, The Living Tradition of Maria Martinez chronicles the life and work of this major Native American artist-from the rediscovery of the ancient black-on-black pottery technique an…
Cumulative Effects at the Local Level
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New Bedford's Fish Auction: A Study in Auction Method and Market Power
New Bedford's fish auction began in 1941 as a result of negotiations between the Atlantic Fishermen's Union and the Seafood Producers' Association and has continued to the present under roughly the same rules. The auction is a timed auction where whole boatloads are sold to the highest bidder when the ending bell sounds. However, bidding is by species and size category. This creates four problems: (1) only buyers who have access to dock space can…
How democracies differ: Public opinion, state structure, and the lessons of the Fashoda crisis
(1995). How democracies differ: Public opinion, state structure, and the lessons of the Fashoda crisis. Security Studies: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 3-37
The Social Origins of Royalist Political Violence in Directorial Bordeaux
Journal Article THE SOCIAL ORIGINS OF ROYALIST POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN DIRECTORIAL BORDEAUX Get access STEPHEN M. PETERSON STEPHEN M. PETERSON *In December 1993, the author received the degree of Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. He does not currently hold an academic position. The author wishes to thank the Fulbright Commission and the Northwestern University Research Grants Committee for the generous favanrtai support that made…
Democracies and Foreign Policy: Public Participation in the United States and the Netherlands. Bernard C. Cohen America/Américas. Eldon Kenworthy
Crisis Bargaining and the State: The Domestic Politics of International Conflict
Crisis Bargaining and the State: The Domestic Politics of International Conflict
Asymmetric Conflicts: War Initiation by Weaker Powers
Elections and War: The Electoral Incentive in the Democratic Politics of War and Peace
Journal Article Elections and War: The Electoral Incentive in the Democratic Politics of War and Peace Get access Elections and War: The Electoral Incentive in the Democratic Politics of War and Peace by Kurt Taylor Gaubatz. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1999. 208 pp. $45.00. Susan Peterson Susan Peterson The College of William and Mary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Vo…
Limiting the Unintended Consequences of Institutional Change
Students of institutional change pay insufficient attention to the conditions under which institutional reform produces unintended procedural and policy consequences. The authors contend that the broader institutional context in which an altered institution is embedded influences the likelihood and extent of such unintended outcomes. Three aspects of this environment are particularly important. First, a reformer's access to policy instruments may…
Epidemic Disease and National Security
(2002). Epidemic disease and national security. Security Studies: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 43-81
Divided Discipline: Comparing Views of US and Canadian IR Scholars
ProQuest-CSA LLC: ... denotes text stops here in original.)The centre of gravity for the academic discipline of relations is located in the United States, but Canada boasts a vibrant academic community of relations scholars.' Through their teaching, research, and consultations with policymakers, Canadian IR scholars influence how Canadian citizens and policymakers think about world politics, and sometimes directly affect the practice of Canadian …
Women in International Relations
Women now receive political science degrees in record numbers, but female representation among political science faculty still lags behind that of many other disciplines. Only 26% of the 13,000 political science professors in the United States today are women (Sedowski and Brintall 2007). According to our recent survey of international relations faculty in the United States—the 2006 Teaching, Research, and International Politics (TRIP) Survey—wom…
International Relations in the US Academy1: International Relations in the US Academy
Using two new data sources to describe trends in the international relations (IR) discipline since 1980—a database of every article published in the 12 leading journals in the field and three surveys of IR faculty at US colleges and universities—we explore the extent of theoretical, methodological, and epistemological diversity in the American study of IR and the relationship between IR scholarship and the policy-making community in the United St…
What Pivot? International Relations Scholarship and the Study of East Asia
Scholars of international relations (IR) simultaneously believe that their work is policy-relevant and that a gap exists between the academic and policy worlds of IR. Using data from the 2011 Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) survey and the TRIP journal article database, we explore this disjuncture in one specific area, research on East Asia. If US scholars' work addresses policy-relevant issues, as they believe, we would expect…
Knowledge without power: International relations scholars and the US war in Iraq
Analgesic Access for Acute Abdominal Pain in the Emergency Department Among Racial/Ethnic Minority Patients: A Nationwide Examination
BACKGROUND: Prior studies of acute abdominal pain provide conflicting data regarding the presence of racial/ethnic disparities in the emergency department (ED). OBJECTIVE: To evaluate race/ethnicity-based differences in ED analgesic pain management among a national sample of adult patients with acute abdominal pain based on a uniform definition. RESEARCH DESIGN/SUBJECTS/MEASURES: The 2006-2010 CDC-NHAMCS data were retrospectively queried for pati…
Is International Relations a Global Discipline? Hegemony, Insularity, and Diversity in the Field
Using data from the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) project, we address several questions posed by students of the international relations (IR) discipline, specifically, whether and to what extent: US scholars, institutions, and journals dominate the field; national communities of IR scholars are insular or inward-looking; and/or the discipline is theoretically, methodologically, and epistemologically diverse. We draw from two…
Do You Feel Welcome? Gendered Experiences in International Security Studies
Unlike in the broader field of international relations, relatively little research on gender representation and gendered experiences exists within the subfield of security studies. This article begins to fill that gap by sharing the results of a 2019 survey of members of the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) of the International Studies Association (ISA). The survey results show striking gender differences in members’ experiences, wit…
Policy-Relevant Publications and Tenure Decisions in International Relations
Many observers of the international relations (IR) discipline express concern about the decline in policy-relevant research within the academy. Some blame an academic culture and academic institutions that incentivize abstract, quantitative, or theoretical work that speaks to scholarly debates rather than real-world problems. This article asks how IR scholars value both scholarly and policy publications. Using data from the TRIP survey, we found …
Bridging the Theory-Practice Divide in International Relations
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