Susan L. Woodward

Since 2001, Susan L. Woodward is a professor at the Political Science Program at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). She is an expert on comparative politics and on Balkan Studies. Previously was a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College, University of London, and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution (1990-99). During her time in Washington DC she taught graduate seminars at Georgetown, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. She also taught in Yale University (1982-89), Williams College (1978-82), Mount Holyoke College (1977-78), and Northwestern University (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.^[1]

She has a Ph.D. and a M.A. from Princeton University and a B.A. from the University of Minnesota.^[2]

Publications

• Susan L. Woodward, “Socialist Unemployment: The Political Economy of Yugoslavia, 1945-1990,” Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press (1995).

• Susan L. Woodward, “Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution after the Cold War,” Washington: The Brookings Institution (1995).

• Susan L. Woodward and Stefano Bianchini, eds., “From the Adriatic to the Caucasus: 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 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).

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