Steven Wallace Hook
Professor, Department of Political Science
Kent State University
Kent OH 44242 USA
(330) 672-8928 (office); (330)672-3362 (fax)
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EDUCATIONPh.D. The University of South Carolina (1993): International Studies
M.A. The University of South Carolina (1989): International Studies
B.A. The University of Michigan (1982): Political Science, Journalism
ACADEMIC
CAREER(2008-present)Kent State University: Professor
(2001-2008)Kent State University: Associate Professor
(1996-2001)Kent State University: Assistant Professor
(1994-1996)University of Missouri: Visiting Assistant Professor
(1993-1994)University of Florida: Visiting Assistant Professor
PRIMARY AREAS
OF INTEREST Foreign Policy Analysis
- Formulation and Conduct of U.S. Foreign Policy
- Comparative Foreign Policy
- Methodology of Foreign Policy Analysis
International Political Economy
- International Development
- Public and Private Capital Flows
- Foreign Economic Policy
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
(2015) The United States and the Gulf: Shifting Pressures, Strategies, and Alignments. Edited volume, original manuscripts, co-edited with Tim Niblock. Berlin: Gerlach.
(2017)U.S. Foreign Policy: The Paradox of World Power, 5th ed. Washington, D.C.: Sage/ CQ Press. Previous editions: 4th (2014), 3rd (2011) 2nd ed. (2008), 1st ed. (2005).
(2016)American Foreign Policy since World War II, 20th edition. Washington, DC: Sage/CQ Press.Co-authored with John Spanier (primary author since 2000). Previous 19th ed. (2013) 18th ed. (2011), 17th ed. (2007), 16th ed. (2004), 15th ed, (2000), 14th ed. (1998), and 13th ed.(1995).
(2012)Handbook of American Foreign Policy. Edited volume, original manuscripts, co-edited with Christopher M. Jones.New York: Routledge Press.
(2012) U.S. Foreign Policy Today: American Renewal? Edited volume, original manuscripts, co- edited with James M. Scott. Washington, DC: CQ Press.
(2010)Democratic Peace in Theory and Practice. Edited volume, original manuscripts. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press.
(2002) Comparative Foreign Policy: Adaptation Strategies of the Great and Emerging Powers. Edited volume, original manuscripts. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
(1996)Foreign Aid Toward the Millennium. Edited volume, original manuscripts. Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
(1995)National Interest and Foreign Aid. Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers. Korean-language edition published in 1997.
ARTICLES and CHAPTERS
(2015)“The Development Aid Regime at Fifty: Policy Challenges Inside and Out,” International Studies Perspectives, pp. 1-20, with Jessie Rumsey.
(2014) “Sino-American Trade Relations: Privatizing Foreign Policy,” pp. 354-385 in Ralph G. Carter, ed., Contemporary Cases in U.S. Foreign Policy: From Terrorism to Trade. Washington, DC: CQ Press. With Franklin B. Lebo.
(2012)“The Post-Cold War Era,” pp. 46-58 in Steven W. Hook and Christopher M. Jones, Routledge Handbook of American Foreign Policy. New York: Routledge. With James M. Scott.
(2012) “Seeking Renewal: American Foreign Policy in the Obama Era,” pp. 1-15 in Steven W. Hook and James M. Scott, American Renewal? U.S. Foreign Policy Today. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.
(2010) “Studying International Development: A Kuhnian Perspective," pp. 948-969 in Robert Denemark, ed., The International Studies Encyclopedia. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. With Franklin B. Lebo.
(2009)“Beyond the Bush Doctrine," pp. 161-177 in Michael Grossman and Eric Matthews, Jr., eds., Perspectves on the Legacy of George W. Bush. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
(2008)“Ideas and Change in U.S. Foreign Aid: Inventing the Millennium Challenge Corporation,” Foreign Policy Analysis 4 (April): 147-167.
(2007) “Foreign Aid in Comparative Perspective: Regime Dynamics and Donor Interests,” pp. 86-105 in Louis A. Picard, Robert Groelsema, and Terry F. Buss, eds., Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy: Lessons for the Next Half Century. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
(2007) “Domestic Challenges to American Hegemony,” pp. 169-200 in Lawrence Sondhaus and A. James Fuller, eds., America, War and Power: Defining the State, 1775-2005. New York: Routledge Press.
(2006) “Framing Sino-American Relations under Stress: A Reexamination of News Coverage of the 2001 Spy Plane Crisis,” Asian Affairs: An American Review 33 (Fall): 167-183. With Xiaoyu Pu.
(2005)“New Rationales and Old Concerns about U.S. Arms Exports,” pp. 153-178 in Peter Dombrowski, ed., Guns and Butter: The Political Economy of International Security. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. With David Rothstein.
(2003) “Domestic Obstacles to Foreign Affairs: The State Department Under Fire,”PS: Political Science and Politics 36 (January): 23-29. Reprinted in James Mitchell, ed., Readings in American Government (Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, forthcoming); and in David A. Rochefort, ed., Quantitative Methods in Practice: Readings from PS (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2006).
(2002) “Inconsistent U.S. Efforts to Promote Democracy Abroad,” pp. 109-128 in Peter J. Schraeder, ed., Can Democracy be Exported? The International Dimension of Democratization. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
(2000) “Greasing the Squeaky Wheel: News Media Coverage and U.S. Foreign Aid,”International Interactions 26 (No. 3): 321-346. With Douglas Van Belle.
(2000) “Transnational Capital Flows and East Asia’s Reversal of Fortunes: Implications for State Autonomy,”Current Politics and Economics of Asia 9 (No. 1): 67-82.
(1998)“The White House, Congress, and the Paralysis of the U.S. State Department,” pp. 305-329 in James M. Scott, ed., After the End: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Environment. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
(1998)"Japan's Aid Policy Since the Cold War," Asian Survey 38 (November), pp. 1051-1066.With Guang Zhang. Reprinted in Peter Burnell Oliver Morrissey, eds.,Foreign Aid in the New Global Economy (Williston: Edward Elgar, 2004). (1998) “Building Democracy through Foreign Aid: The Limitations of United States PoliticalConditionalities, 1992-1996," Democratization 5 (Fall), pp. 156-180.
(1998)"Clarifying the Foreign Aid Puzzle: A Comparison of American, Japanese, French, and Swedish Aid Flows," World Politics 50 (January), pp. 294-323. With Peter J. Schraeder and Bruce Taylor. Reprinted in Peter Burnell and Oliver Morrissey, eds., Foreign Aid in the New Global Economy (Williston, VT: Edward Elgar, 2004).
(1997)"MissionWithout a Mandate: U.S. Foreign Aid After the Cold War." Pew Case Studies in International Affairs,Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown.
(1996)“Introduction: Foreign Aid in a Transformed World,” pp. 1-16; “The Assault on U.S.Foreign Aid,” pp. 57-73, with Robert Zimmerman; “Foreign Aid and the Illogic of Collective Action,” pp. 227-237 in Steven W. Hook, ed., Foreign Aid toward the Millennium. Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
(1994)"Self-Interest and Foreign Economic Policy: A Cross-National Perspective," International Studies Notes 19 (Winter), pp. 26-36.
(1993)"Rhetoric Versus Reality: Carter, Reagan, and U.S. Arms Sales," Southeastern PoliticalReview 21 (Summer), pp. 569-592.
(1991)"U.S. Foreign Aid and U.N. Voting: Did Reagan's Linkage Strategy Buy Deference orDefiance?" International Studies Quarterly 35 (September), pp. 295-312. With CharlesW.Kegley, Jr.
(1991)"On the Morality of Nuclear Deterrence: The Debate in Historical Perspective," pp. 250-275 in Charles W. Kegley, Jr., and Kenneth L. Schwab, eds., After the Cold War: The Uncertain Moral Status of Nuclear Deterrence. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. With William A. Clark.
NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
(2007) “How Does Democracy Take Root?” AkronBeacon Journal (April 23)
(2004) “The Misconduct of U.S. Foreign Policy,” AkronBeacon Journal (October 18)
(2004) “America’s Hegemonic Overstretch,” pp. 334-344 in Graham F. Walker, ed., Independence in an Age of Empire: Assessing Unilateralism and Multilateralism. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, DalhousieUniversity.
(2002) “America’s Ambivalent World Role and the War on Terrorism,” pp. 46-50 in September11 and Beyond. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
BOOK REVIEWS SINCE 2000
(2011) Alex Mintz and Karl DeRouen, Jr., Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), and Mark Schafer and Scott Crichlow, Groupthink vs. High-Quality Decision Making (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010). Political Psychology, forthcoming.
(2011)Giacamo Chiozza. Anti-Americanism and American World Order.(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)International Studies Review, forthcoming.
(2006) Anne E. Sartori, Deterrence by Diplomacy (Princeton: Princeton University Press), Perspectives on Political Science 33 (Winter): 54-55.
(2004)Jeremy Rapkin, The Case for Sovereignty: Why the World Should Welcome AmericanIndependence (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 2004) in Perspectives on Political Science 33 (Fall): 243-244.
(2003) Christopher Hill, The Changing Politics of Foreign Policy (New York: Palgrave
Macmillan), Perspectives on Political Science 32 (Summer): 81.
(2003) Joseph S. Nye, Jr. The Paradox of American Power: Why the World’s Only Superpower Can’t Go It Alone, (New York: Oxford University Press). International Politics 40 (June): 303-305.
(2003)Henry Kissinger. Does America Need a Foreign Policy? Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001). International Studies Review 4 (Spring): 187-190.
(2002) Anthony James Joes. America and Guerrilla Warfare (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press) International Politics 39 (March): 122-123.
(2002)G.R. Berridge, Maurice Keens-Soper, and T.G. Otte, eds., Diplomatic Theory from Machiavelli to Kissinger (New York: Palgrave, 2001). Perspectives on Political Science (Winter).
(2001) Carol Lancaster. Transforming Foreign Aid: United States Assistance in the 21st Century (Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics, 2001). Political Science Quarterly 116 (Summer): 339-340.
(2001) H.W. Brands, ed., The Use of Force after the Cold War (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2000). Presidential Studies Quarterly 31 (June): 379-380.
(2000) Warren Christopher, In the Stream of History: Shaping Foreign Policy for a New Era. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999). Canadian Journal of History 35 (August): 384-386.
(2000)DavidA.Lake, Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in its Century (Princeton: PrincetonUniversity Press). Journal of Politics 62 (August): 969-70.
PROFESSIONAL PAPERSSINCE 2000
(2015) “What Americans Know, and Want: Probing the Link Between Political Knowledge and U.S. Foreign Policy. Annual Meetings of International Studies Association, New Orleans, February 20.
(2014) “Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy: Testing the Effects of Political Knowledge,”paper presented at the Annual Meetings of International Studies Association, Toronto, March 26.
(2013)“The Development Aid Regime Revisited: An Analysis of Donor Norm Compliance,” paper presented at the Annual Meetings of International Studies Association, San Francisco, April 3.
(2012) “Ignorance Abroad? Problematizing the Knowledge Gap in American Foreign Policy,” paper presented at the Annual Meetings of International Studies Association, San Diego, April 3.
(2011)“The End of Liberalism in U.S. Foreign Policy: Domestic Politics and Strategic Costs,” paper presented at the Annual Meetings of International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, March 17.
(2008) “Ideas, State Interests, and Consolidation of the Global Development Aid Regime,” paper presented at the Annual Meetings of International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 28.
(2007) “New Dynamics of the Development Aid Regime,” delivered at the Annual Meetings ofInternational Studies Association, Chicago, March 2.
(2006)“Pathways and Pathologies of U.S. Foreign Aid Institutions,” delivered at AnnualMeetingsof the International Studies Association, San Diego, March 24.
(2005) “Framing Sino-American Relations: News Coverage of the 2001 Spy Plane Crisis,”delivered at Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association- Midwest, October 22.
“The Paradox of America’s World Power,” paper presented at the Conference on War and Power: Defining the American State,” University of Indianapolis, 24 September.
“False Starts in U.S. Aid Policy: Domestic Polarization and Global Alienation,” paper presented atAnnual Meetings of the International Studies Association, Honolulu, March4.
(2004) “The Revival of Security Assistance and the U.S. War on Terrorism,” paper presented at Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, Montreal, March 18.
(2003) “U.S. Arms Transfers and the War on Terrorism,” paper presented at Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association-Midwest, St. Louis, Nov. 8.
“U.S. Development Assistance after the Cold War: Determinants of Bilateral Transfers, 1990-1999,” paper presented at Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, Portland, Oregon, March 1.
“U.S. Military Transformation versus Inter-Service Rivalry: The Role of Weapons Procurement in Promoting or Discouraging Jointness,” paper presented at AnnualMeetings of the International Studies Association, Portland, Oregon, March 1.
(2002) “Institutional Momentum and U.S. Foreign Policy: Implications for Domestic Politics and Transnational Relations,” presented at the Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, March 24.
(2000) “Interest Group Mobilization in American Foreign Policy: U.S. Engagement toward China,” Presented at the Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, Los Angeles, March 18.
OTHER ROLES ON PROFESSIONAL PANELS SINCE 2000
(2015) Discussant, panel entitled “The Benevolent Hegemon? American Aid and Development Policy,” Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, February 20.
(2013)Discussant, panel entitled “When Does Foreign Policy Change?” Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, April 4.
(2012) Discussant, panel entitled “President Obama and the ‘Team of Rivals’ Model in Foreign Policy Decisionmaking: Campaigning, Governing, and Washington Policymaking,” Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, San Diego, March 31.
(2011) Chair, panel entitled “World Police? U.S. Foreign Policy and Global Governance,” Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, March 19.
Discussant, panel entitled “An Obama Doctrine? Regional Assessments,” Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, March 19.
(2010) Chair and discussant, panel entitled “American Foreign Policy: State of the Discipline I,” Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, February 17.
Chair, panel entitled “American Foreign Policy: State of the Discipline II,”
Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, February 17.
Chair, panel entitled “A Safer Future? Changes in U.S. Security Policy under the Obama Administration,” Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, February 17.(2009) Chair, panel entitled “US Foreign Policy in the New Administration I,” Annual Meetings of the InternationalStudies Association, New York City, February 16.
Discussant, panel entitled “US Foreign Policy in the New Administration II,” Annual Meetings of the InternationalStudies Association, New York City, February 16.
(2008) Discussant, panel entitled “Patterns and Trends in Military Aid,” Annual Meetings of International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 29.
(2006) Discussant, panel entitled “Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy,” Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, March 25.
(2005)Discussant and chair, panel entitled “Causes and Effects of Third-Party Intervention,”Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association- Midwest, St. Louis, October 22.
Conference organizer, presenter of Closing Address,Istanbul Conference on Democracyand Global Security, June 9-11, Istanbul, Turkey.
(2004) Discussant, panel entitled “Global Inequality and Hegemony,” Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, Montreal, 20.
(2003) Workshop presenter, presentation entitled “Politics of U.S. Foreign Aid Allocations, and Implications for Conservation Programs,” workshop entitled “International Financing of Biodiversity Conservation in Developing Countries,” San Diego, December 5-6.
Chair and discussant, panel entitled “Conflict Escalation and Expansion,” Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association-Midwest, St. Louis, Nov. 7.
Panelist, conference entitled “Democracy at a Critical Juncture: The Ongoing Implicationsof 9-11,” Pace University, New York City, June 1.
Discussant, panel entitled “Human Rights in Foreign Policy,” Annual Meetings of theInternationalStudies Association, Portland, Feb. 28.
(2001) Chair, panel entitled “Domestic Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy,” Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, Aug. 31.
Discussant, panel entitled “Foreign Aid Policies in Comparative Perspective,” Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, September 1.
Chair, panel entitled “Mediating Foreign Policy Decisions,” Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, Chicago, IL, Feb. 23.
Discussant, panel entitled “Foreign Policy Adaptation to Systemic Change: Cross-National Evidence from the First Post-Cold War Decade,” Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, Chicago, IL, Feb. 23.
(2000)Chair, panel entitled “Who Are You Calling a Threat?” Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington DC, September 3.
(2000) Moderator, Distinguished Scholar Award Panel in Honor of Jack Levy, Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, March 16.
(2000) Co-chair, panel entitled “Publish, Don’t Perish: Shaping Your Dissertation for Books and Journals,” Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, March 16.
INVITED CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONSSINCE 2000
(2014) Paper presenter, 2014 Conference of Arab Research Centers, “The GCC Countries: Politics and Economics in Light of Regional and International Shifts and Changes,” December 6-8).
(2014) Panelist, discussion of documentary entitled “Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars,” November 20.
(2014)Convener and paper presenter, workshop entitled “The United States and the Gulf: Toward a Reassessment of Gulf Commitments and Alignments?” 2014 Gulf Research Meeting, sponsored by the Gulf Research Centre Cambridge University.
Guest instructor, L-3 Communications, Fort Meade, MD. Short course in U.S. foreign policy, May 15-16, and October 27-28.
(2013)“U.S. Foreign Policy and Middle East Change: The Impact of Domestic Politics,” paper presented at conference entitled “The Arab World: The March Toward Democracy and itsImplications,” Mahatma Gandhi University; Kottayam, India, February 4.
“The United States and the Balance of World Power,” Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, June 6.
(2012)Guest Lecturer, Study of the United States (SUSI), U.S. Foreign Policy Institute, University of Florida. Sponsored by U.S. State Department.
Guest instructor, L-3 Communications, Fort Meade, MD. Short course in U.S. foreign policy, December 4-6.
Guest speaker,U.S. State Department, Virtual Lecture Series. Presentation of webcasts of lectures on U.S. foreign policy to college students in Armenia and Georgia, October 16 and 23.
(2011) Panel discussion entitled “Crisis in the Middle East and North Africa,”
University of Mount Union, April 7.
(2010) Conference entitled “Current Issues in American Foreign Policy andNational
Security,” Tiffin University, March 19.
(2008) Conference entitled “Regional Dynamics and Institution Building in East Asia,”
School of International Studies, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea.
(2007) Manuscript review conference, Curse of Alliances: How the U.S. Won the Cold War and Lost the Third World (Hilton Root, author); George Mason University, Virginia; May 11-12.
(2006, 2005) Fulbright scholar conference, “Understanding U.S. Foreign Policy,” University of South Carolina; June 15, 2006; June 21, 2005.
(2005) Invited Conference entitled “War and Power: Defining the AmericanState,”
University ofIndianapolis; September 24.
(2003)Workshop entitled “International Financing of Biodiversity Conservation in Developing Countries,”University of California, San Diego; December 5-6.
(2003) Conference entitled “Democracy at a Critical Juncture: The Ongoing Implicationsof 9-11,” Pace University, New York City; June 1.
(2003)Workshop entitled “The International Political Economy of National Security,” Brown University,Providence, Rhode Island, May 30-31.
HONORS SINCE 2000
(2007-08) Recipient. Distinguished Teaching Award, Kent State University.
(2005-06) Finalist. Distinguished Teaching Award, Kent State University.
(2001-02) Nominee.Distinguished Teaching Award, Kent State University.
TEACHING AND SERVICE ROLES
(1996-Present) Courses Taught: