Prof. James Walston
- Associate Professor of International Relations
- Ph. D. Cambridge University
- Diploma di Perfezionamento, University of Rome, Sapienza
- B.A. Cambridge University
As well as being an academic political scientist, James Walston is a political analyst who writes and comments internationally on Italian politics and on international relations in Italy. He has taught politics and history in American and Italian universities for 30 years, specializing in Italian politics and modern history where he has published extensively. He has been with AUR since 1991 and was chair of the Department of International Relations from 2002-08. In 2003, he began the Department’s field study program which includes AUR’s annual Ghana trip and regular trips to European institutional sites like Brussels, Geneva and Vienna and conflict resolution sites like Kosovo, the Basque Country and Northern Ireland. Together with Prof. Clough Marinaro, in 2008, he started AUR’s Center for Research on Racism in Italy. His other research interest include West Africa, organized crime; politics, history and memory, national identity in the Balkans.
Recent publications: “Italian foreign policy since the end of the Cold War” in Carbone M. (ed) Italian Foreign Policy Lexington. “Italy’s ‘second generations’: the sons and daughters of migrants” in Bulletin of Italian Politics 2 (1) Summer 2010 (with Isabella Clough Marinaro).
Contact: j.walston@aur.edu
Blog: http://italpolblog.blogspot.com/
