Giulio M. Gallarotti is Professor of Government and Tutor in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University. He has also been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Economic Theory at the University of Rome. He is the author of The Anatomy of an International Monetary Regime: The Classical Gold Standard 1880-1914 (Oxford University Press, 1995, The Power Curse: Influence and Illusion in World Politics (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010), and Cosmopolitan Power in International Relations: A Synthesis of Realism, Neoliberalism, and Constructivism (Cambridge University Press, 2010). In addition, he has published numerous articles in leading journals across five disciplines: economics, politics, law, history, and business. In 2010 and 2011 his biography was published in Marquis Who’s Who in America. Wesleyan University Church Street Middletown, CT 06459 860 539 3997 ggallarotti@wesleyan.edu Webpage: http://ggallarotti.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Books
Cosmopolitan Power in International Relations: A Synthesis of Realism, Neoliberalism, and Constructivism (2010)
How can nations optimize their power in the modern world system? Realist theory has underscored...
The Power Curse: Influence and Illusion in World Politics (2010)
Can increasing power in international politics be a bad thing for nations? In this provocative...
The Anatomy of an International Monetary Regime: The Classical Gold Standard 1880-1914 (1995)
Widely considered the crowning achievement in the history of international monetary relations, the classical gold...
Articles
Smart Development: Saudi Arabia's Quest for a Knowledge Economy, International Studies (2013)
Nations that have sought to overcome the resource curse and other barriers to economic growth...
The Enduring Importance of Hobbes in the Study of IR, E-International relations (2013)
This article confronts the question, Is Thomas Hobbes still relevant to the study of international...
The Soft Power of Saudi Arabia (with Isam Yahia Al Filali), International Studies (2013)
When people are asked the question, What is the source of Saudi Arabia’s power? Who...
The Power Curse: The Paradox of Power in World Politics, Polis (2011)
Can the augmentation of power be a bad thing for nations? The analysis in the...
Soft Power: What it is, Why it’s Important, and the Conditions Under Which it Can Be Effectively Used, Journal of Political Power (2011)
Soft power has attracted significant attention in scholarly and public debates on foreign affairs in...
Contributions to Books
Government Economists as ‘Global Economists’”, Public Economics: The Government's Role in American Economics (2012)
With the advent of globalization, economists that serve the U.S. government have had to become...
Nice Guys Finish First: American Unilateralism and Power Illusion, Independence in an Age of Empires: Multilateralism and Unilateralism in the Post 9/11 World (2004)
Sanctions, U.S. Policy and the Caspian Basin (with Peter Rutland), Geopolitics, Energy and the Future (1999)
The Scramble for Gold: Monetary Regime Transformation in the 1870s, Monetary Regimes In Transition (1993)
Popular Press
Questioning America's Decline, Iran Review (2013)
The US is still the dominant nation in the world, despite claims regarding its weakened...
Leading Business to Green Profits, Hartford Courant (2007)
U.S. Shouldn’t Fear Serious Oil Crisis, New Haven Register (1991)
Unpublished Papers
Smart Power: what it is, why it’s important, and the conditions for its effective use, Conference Paper (2013)
The concept of soft power and its corollary smart power have generated great attention, not...
Media Presentations
Power in International Relations, Scholar's Circle (2011)
What is power in International relations and who has it?
Global Role of the USA, EBRU TV Network Fresh Outlook Show (2011)
On an episode of Ebru TV‘s “Fresh Outlook,” Giulio Gallarotti, professor of government, discussed the...
China's Power Illusion, WNPR Where We Live Show (2011)
China as the new rising super-power. What it means for the U.S. and the world.
The Gold Standard: An Unwelcome Political Constraint, MacAlvaney Weekly Commentary (2010)
What we should know about the classical gold standard 1880-1914 and its lessons for modern...