Etel Solingen

Professor of Political Science

Department: Political Science

UC Irvine
5259 Social Sciences Plaza B
Mail Code: 5100
Irvine, CA 92697
Tel: (949) 824-6732
Fax: (310)475-1076
etel.solingen@uci.edu
Personal Website

Etel Solingen is Professor of Political Science at the University of California Irvine.

Her most recent book Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East (Princeton University Press 2007) is the recipient of the 2008 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs by the American Political Science Association, and of the 2008 APSA’s Robert Jervis and Paul Schroeder Award for the Best Book on International History and Politics.

Professor Solingen was Vice-President of the International Studies Association, President of the International Political Economy Section of ISA, and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Award on Peace and International Cooperation, a Social Science Research Council-Mac Arthur Foundation Fellowship on Peace and Security in a Changing World, a Japan Foundation/SSRC Abe Fellowship, a Center for Global Partnership fellowship, and Carnegie Corporation, USIP, Sloan Foundation, Columbia Foundation and other grants.

She is also the author of Regional Orders at Century's Dawn: Global and Domestic Influences on Grand Strategy (Princeton University Press 1998), Industrial Policy, Technology, and International Bargaining: Designing Nuclear Industries in Argentina and Brazil (Stanford University Press 1996) and editor of Scientists and the State (University of Michigan Press 1994). Her articles on international relations theory, international political economy, comparative politics, institutional theory, comparative regionalism, democratization, and international security appeared in the American Political Science Review, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Politics, International Security, Global Governance, Journal of Democracy, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Theoretical Politics, International Relations of Asia-Pacific,Asian Survey, and International History Review, among others.

Her research has focused mostly on the Middle East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Euro-Mediterranean region. She served as Chair of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation’s Steering Committee (2004-2008) and is currently Review Essay Editor of the journal International Organization. Solingen was the recipient of a 2002 American Political Science Association Excellence in Mentorship Award and a 1995 Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California Irvine's Academic Senate.