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Mark Boyer

Professor

International Relations, International Conflict and Cooperation, Negotiation and Bargaining, International Political Economy

Ph.D. University of Maryland

 

 

Mark A. Boyer is a professor of political science.  He holds a B.A. in political science from Wittenberg University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in from the University of Maryland. He co-directs the GlobalEd Project, which employs the ICONS simulation as an experimental international studies venue. The project focuses on the impact of gender, technology, and group dynamics on negotiation, conflict resolution, and learning outcomes. GlobalEd has created a network of nearly 50 middle and high schools across 14 states and integrates the research, teaching and outreach missions of contemporary academia. He was editor of ISA's journal International Studies Perspectives from 2000-2004. He will be co-editor of International Studies Review, also an ISA journal, starting in 2008.

Recent awards and honors he has received include:

  • co-awardee (with Scott W. Brown, UConn, Educational Pschology) of the 2006 UConn Provost's Outreach Award for Research-Based Public Service for their GlobalEd Project collaboration;
  • the 2004 UConn Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Graduate Level;
  • APSA's 2000 Rowman and Littlefield Award for Innovative Teaching in Political Science;
  • the 2001 UConn Chancellor's Information Technology Award.

He was also a 1992-1993 Pew Faculty Fellow in International Affairs and a 1986-88 SSRC-MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security. During 1996-1997, he was the Program Co-Chair for annual meetings of the International Studies Association (ISA) held from March 18-22, 1997 in Toronto.   



Curriculum Vitae

 

Teaching

 

Recent Publications

BOOKS

  • Defensive Internationalism:   Providing Global Public Goods in an Uncertain World (University of Michigan Press, 2005) (co-authored with Davis B. Bobrow).
  • International Cooperation and Public Goods: Opportunities for the Western Alliance (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993).
  • International Politics on the World Stage, Brief Edition. (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2006, 2004, 2002, 2000, 1998, 1996) (co-authored with John Rourke).
  • Negotiating a Complex World. (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999, 2004) (co-authored with Brigid Starkey and Jonathan Wilkenfeld).
  • Making American Foreign Policy, 2nd ed. (Brown and Benchmark, 1996) (co-authored with John Rourke and Ralph Carter).

ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Mark A. Boyer, Scott W. Brown, Michael Butler, Natalie Hudson, Brian Urlacher, Anat Niv-Solomon, Paula Johnson and Clarisse Lima. (2007, forthcoming) “Experimenting with Global Governance: Understanding the Potential for Generational Change,” Globalization, Societies and Education.
  • Tara M. Lavallee and Mark A. Boyer. (2006, forthcoming) “Globalization and Local Governance: Implications from Wal-Mart's Expansion,” International Studies Perspectives, 7(3):254-266.
  • Mark A. Boyer, Peter Trumbore, and David Fricke. (2006) “Teaching IPE Theory from the Pit: A Simple Classroom Simulation,” International Studies Perspectives, 7(1): 67-76.
  • Mark A. Boyer, Brown, S. W., Butler, M. J., Florea, N. B., Hernandez, M., Johnson, P. R., Meng, L., & Lima C. (2004). "Educating for global awareness: implications for governance and generational change." Global Change, Peace and Security, 16(1)73-77.
  • “Understanding Security through the Eyes of the Young,” in Peter Dombrowski, ed. Guns and Butter: The Political Economy of Security. Boulder , CO : Lynne Reinner Publishers. (2005) (co-authored with Natalie Florea, Michael Butler, Scott W. Brown, Lin Meng, Paula Johnson, and Clarisse Lima).
  • “The Public Goods of Humanitarian Intervention: Divergent Perceptions and Variable Outcomes in Kosovo,” in Jennifer Sterling-Folker, ed. (2005) Making Sense of IR Theory. Boulder , CO : Lynne Reinner Publishers. (co-authored with Michael J. Butler).
  • “Bosnian Peacekeeping and EU Tax Harmony: Evolving Policy Frames and Changing Policy Processes,” International Journal, (2003) 58(2): 389-416. (co-authored with Michael J. Butler).
  • “The GlobalEd Project: Gender differences in a problem-based learning environment of international negotiations,” Instructional Science, (2003) 31(4-5): 255-276. (co-authored with Scott W. Brown, Paula Johnson, Lin Meng, Hayley Mayall, Clarisse Lima, Natalie Florea, Michael J. Butler, Magnolia Hernandez, Kimberly Weir, and Sally Reis).
  • “Negotiating from Mars To Venus: Some Findings on Gender's Impact in Simulated International Negotiations,” Simulation and Games, (2003) 34(2): 226-248. (co-authored with Natalie Florea, Scott W. Brown, Michael J. Butler, Magnolia Hernandez, Kimberly Weir, Paula Johnson, Lin Meng, Hayley Mayall, and Clarisse Lima).
  • "Gender, Violence and International Crisis," Journal of Conflict Resolution, August 2001 (co-authored with Mary Caprioli).
  • "Moving Targets: Understanding Diplomacy and Negotiation in a Globalizing System," International Studies Review, Spring 2001.
  • "Public Opinion and International Policy Choices: Global Commitments for Japan and Its Peers?," Japanese Journal of Political Science (August 2001) (co-authored with Davis Bobrow).
  • "Clubs, Polities, and Overlapping Collectivities: Understanding the Potential for Cooperation in a Post-Hegemonic World," in Yale Ferguson and R.J. Barry Jones, eds. New Frontiers in International Relations Theory. Albany , NY : SUNY Press, 2002.
  • "International Crisis Decisionmaking as a Two-Level Process," Journal of Peace Research, (November 2000) (co-authored with Peter Trumbore).
  • "Issue Definition and Two-Level Games: An Application to the American Foreign Policy Process," Diplomacy and Statecraft, 11(2), July 2000.
  • "Coalitions, Motives, and Payoffs: A Classroom Simulation of Mixed Motive Negotiations," Social Science Computer Review, November 1999. A revised was reprinted in The New International Studies Classroom: Active Teaching, Active Learning, edited by Jeffrey Lantis, Lynn M. Kuzma, and John Boehrer. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 1999).
  • "International System Stability and American Decline: A Case for Muted Optimism," International Journal, Spring 1998, (co-authored with Davis B. Bobrow).
  • "Die Kosten der NATO-Erweiterung: Die amerikanische Debatte," August Pradetto/Fouzieh Melanie Alamir (Hrsg.) Die Debatte ueber die Kosten der NATO-Osterweiterung. Reihe "Demoakratie, Sicherheit, Freiden" No. 119, Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, S. 57-78. (Translation of citation: "The Costs of NATO Enlargement: The American Debate," in August Pradetto and Fouzieh Melanie Alamir (eds.) The Debate on the Costs of NATO Enlargement to the East. Series "Democracy, Security, Peace," No. 119, Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, pp. 57-78.) (co-authored with John T. Rourke).
  • "Maintaining System Stability: International Cooperation in the Foreign Aid Arena," Journal of International Relations, Volume 4, 1997 (co-authored with Davis B. Bobrow).
  • "Maintaining System Stability: Contributions to Peacekeeping Operations," Journal of Conflict Resolution, December 1997 (co-authored with Davis Bobrow).
  • "Bilateral and Multilateral Foreign Aid: Japan 's Approach in Comparative Perspective," Review of International Political Economy, Spring 1996 (co-authored with Davis Bobrow).
  • "Designing Your Own In-Class Simulations," PS: Political Science and Politics, December 1996 (co-authored with Elizabeth Smith).
  • " Japan 's Development Assistance: A Comparative Analysis," Pacific Focus, 1995. (co-authored with Davis Bobrow).
  • "Comparative Advantage and Public Security Perceptions in Western Alliance Security Policies," in James Booth, Patrick James, and Hudson Meadwell, eds. Politics and Rationality. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
  • "A Simple and Untraditional Analysis of Western Alliance Burden-Sharing," Defence Economics, 1990.
  • "Trading Public Goods in the Western Alliance System," Journal of Conflict Resolution, 1989.