Yale H. Ferguson
Professor II of Political Science Co-Director of the Rutgers University Center for Global Change and Governance (CGCG).
For ten (nonconsecutive) years, ending mid-2001, Dr. Ferguson was Chair of the Department of Political Science and, previously, Graduate Director. He is the editor of Contemporary Inter-American Relations (1972); co-editor of Continuing Issues in International Politics (1973) and Political Space: Frontiers of Change and Governance in a Globalizing World (2002); and co-author with Richard W. Mansbach, The Web of World Politics: Nonstate Actors in the Global System (1976), The Elusive Quest: Theory and International Politics (1988), The State, Conceptual Chaos, and the Future of International Relations Theory (1989), Polities: Authority, Identities, and Change (1996), and The Elusive Quest Continues: Theory and Global Politics (2002). He and Mansbach are currently working on two book projects, Remapping Global Politics: History’s Revenge and Future Shock and Ancient Polities. Professor Ferguson is the author/co-author of some forty-five book chapters and articles. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Studies Quarterly and recently finished his second two-year term on the Governing Board of the International Studies Association-NE, and a three-year term on the ISA Workshop Grants Committee. From 1995-2000 he served on the International Advisory Board of the European Journal of International Relations. In 1999 he was honored with the Rutgers University Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research, and in 1996, with the Lynne Rienner/Quincy Wright Award from ISA-Midwest (for Polities). Professor Ferguson has been Visiting Fellow at both the Centre of International Studies and Clare Hall (where he is a Life Member) at the University of Cambridge in 1986-87 and 1991; a Fulbright Professor at the University of Salzburg in Austria, 1992-93; and Senior Fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway, 1996. During 2001 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Salzburg and Visiting Scholar at the University of Padova. In late 2002 he was made an Honorary Professor of the University of Salzburg. Professor Ferguson received his BA from Trinity University (San Antonio) and his Ph.D. from Columbia. He joined the Rutgers-Newark faculty in 1966 and teaches a variety of courses related to his interest in global politics.
Recently, Ferguson co-authored REMAPPING GLOBAL POLITICS: HISTORY”S REVENGE AND FUTURE SHOCK (Cambridge U. Press) and “Superpowerdom Before and After September 11, 2001,” in ETUDIES INTERNACIONALES. He spent January-June 2005 on sabbatical as Honorary Professor at the University of Salzburg, co-covened six panels on theories of global politics at the Hague, and gave a keynote conference address on U.S. use of force in San Ginesio, Italy.
