David Sylvan
Biography:
* Head of Political Science Unit, IHEID 2008-present * Prof. International Relations, IHEID 1991-present * Assistant Prof. Political Science, Syracuse University 1979-1987 * Associate Prof. Political Science, University of Minnesota 1987-1991 * Principal investigator, research grants from United Nations, National Science Foundation (US), National Science Foundation (Switzerland), MacArthur Foundation * Database coordinator, GIAN grant * B.A., Williams College 1975, Ph.D., Yale University 1979
Bibliography:
* U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective: Clients, Enemies, and Empire (with S. Majeski) (London: Routledge, 2009). * 'Organized All the Way Down: The Local Complexity of 'Thick' Social Systems,' in Y. Bar-Yam, A. Minai, and D. Braha, eds., Unifying Themes in Complex Systems, vol. 5 (Berlin: Springer Verlag, forthcoming 2010). * 'A Meso-Scopic View of International Political Economy: World Cities,' in H. Starr, ed., Approaches, Levels, and Methods of Analysis in International Politics (New York and Houndmills: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006): 33-44. * 'A Methodology for the Study of Historical Counterfactuals' (with S. Majeski), International Studies Quarterly 42,1 (1998): 79-108. * 'Theoretical Categories and Data Construction Issues in Computational Models of Foreign Policy' (with S. Majeski and J. Milliken), in V. Hudson, ed., Artificial Intelligence and International Politics (Boulder: Westview Press, 1991): 327-346.
