Shale Horowitz

  • Professor, Political Science

Education

  • PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, Political Science
  • MA, University of California, Los Angeles, Economics
  • BA, University of California, Berkeley

Courses Taught

  • Global 101 - People and Politics
  • POL SCI 314 - Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy
  • POL SCI 330 - The Politics of International Economic Relations
  • POL SCI 337 - International Organization and the United Nations
  • POL SCI 371 - Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict
  • POL SCI 500 - Capstone Course in Political Science
  • POL SCI 702 - Advanced Techniques of Political Science Research
  • POL SCI 818 - International Political Economy
  • POL SCI 962 - Ethnic Conflict

Research Interests

Prof. Horowitz's research focuses on international and ethnic conflict, with an emphasis on East and South Asia and on the post-communist world; on the politics of international trade and finance; and on the politics of market transition and institutional change in the post-communist countries and East Asia. He has taught for a year at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and has done research in many countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, in India, and in China, Taiwan, and Korea.

United Nations Summer Seminar

Political science majors can also participate in the United Nations Summer Seminar. This is a yearly five-week program in New York City held each June. See the UN Program Brochure below. For the 2023 Program, see the information flier and the contact information inside.

Selected Publications

Horowitz, Shale A., and Ye, Min. “Leadership Preferences in Ethnic Bargaining: Theory and Illustrations” Indian Growth and Development Review 13.2 (2020): 353-89 .
Horowitz, Shale A., Milanovic, Branko, and Hoff, Karla. “Government Turnover: Concepts, Measures, and Applications” European Journal of Political Research 48.1 (2009): 107-129.

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