Associate Professor

Ph.D., Florida State University, 1979.
Fields: International Politics, International Political Economy.

David Rapkin's research deals with world system theory and Japanese industrial policy. He is co-editor, with William Avery, of the International Studies Association's International Political Economy Yearbook. His recent publications include a chapter in William Thompson's 1999 edited book, Great Power Rivalries, entitled "The Emergence and Intensification of U.S.-Japan Rivalry in the Early Twentieth Century," as well as "Is International Competitiveness a Property of National Economies?" in the March Journal of International Political Economy 1,2. Rapkin co-authored two 1997 journal articles with Jonathan R. Strand, a department grad student: "Institutional Adjustment to Changed Power Distributions: Japan and the United States in the IMF." in Global Governance, and "The U.S. and Japan in the Bretton Woods Institutions: Sharing or Contesting Leader-ship?" in International Journal. Current research includes more on the US-Japan rivalry, including a conceptual paper on rivalry and another on the role of racial hostility in the development of the rivalry, the operation of weighted voting systems in multilateral institutions, and evolutionary approaches to world politics.