Kirshner

Jonathan Kirshner, professor of government and director of Cornell's Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, has been named Princeton University's first annual World Politics visiting fellow for the academic year 2012-13. He begins the position Sept. 1.

The fellowship is funded by World Politics, a quarterly journal on international relations and comparative politics, and hosted by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

Atul Kohli, chair of the World Politics editorial board and professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, said, "Jonathan Kirshner is a distinguished scholar who pursues a type and level of scholarship with which World Politics is pleased to be associated."

Kirshner's primary interests are international relations and political economy. Much of his research has engaged economics and national security, and the politics of money. His book, "Currency and Coercion: The Political Economy of International Monetary Power" (1995), integrates these interests to explore of how states manipulate international monetary relations to advance security-related goals.

"Appeasing Bankers: Financial Caution on the Road to War" (2007) considers how financial interests and international financial markets influence decisions about war and peace. He is also co-editor of the multidisciplinary book series, "Cornell Studies in Money."

At Princeton, Kirshner will work on research that considers American power and world politics after the financial crisis.