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Welcome to the Department of Political Science

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  • Michael Rossi
  • LECTURER V
  • Subfield: American Politics, International Relations
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  • Qualitative Methods, Modern European Studies, Post-Communist Studies, Post-Soviet Studies, Modern Greek and Balkan Studies, Central Asian Studies, Theories of Democratic Transition, Political Culture and Identity
  • Specialties:

    Faculty, MA program in United Nations and Global Policy Studies

  • Bio:

    Michael Rossi offers courses at the Graduate and Undergraduate levels in the Department of Political Science, the Master's Program in United Nations and Global Studies, and the Program in Modern Greek Studies. He has also served as the Program Director in International Relations at Long Island University Brooklyn, Visiting Professor in the Department of International Relations at Webster University Tashkent, in Tashkent Uzbekistan, and Visiting Instructor in the Department of Political Science at Fordham University Rose Hill.

  • Publications:
    • “The Merits of Applied Learning”, Integrative Learning and Civic Engagement. In: Place, Self, Community: City as Text™ in the Twenty-First Century, Edited by Bernice Braid and Sara E. Quay. National Collegiate Honors Council, 2021.
    • “Slovakia after Fico: Systemic Change or More of the Same?” Czech Journal of Political Science, vol. 27, no. 3 (2020), pp. 235 – 258
    • “The Durability of Parastates: Declarative Statehood in the Absence of Constitutive Sovereignty”, Nationalities Papers, vol. 48 no. 1 (2020), pp. 24 – 41 
    • “Inconvenient Realities: The Emergence and Resilience of Parastates”, with Jaume Castan Pinos, Nationalities Papers, vol. 48 no. 1 (2020), pp. 12 – 23
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