Helen Milner
{{short description|American political scientist}}
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Helen V. Milner (born 1958) is an American political scientist. She is currently the B. C. Forbes Professor of Public Affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where she also directs the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance.{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.princeton.edu/hvmilner/home|title = Helen V. Milner}} She has written extensively on issues related to international political economy, including international trade, the connections between domestic politics and foreign policy, globalization and regionalism, and the relationship between democracy and trade policy.
Education
Milner graduated with a BA (honors) in international relations from Stanford University in 1980 and earned her Ph.D in political science from Harvard University in 1986.{{cite thesis | degree = Ph.D | last = Milner | first = Helen V. | date = 1986 | title = Resisting the protectionist temptation: industry politics and trade policy in France and the United States in the 1920s and 1970s | publisher = Harvard University | oclc = 25994297 }}
Academic career
Since 1986 she was a professor at Columbia University and was between 2001 and 2004 the James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations at Columbia University. She joined Princeton University in 2005, where she served as chair of its Politics department until 2011.{{Cite web |title=Helen V. Milner |url=https://scholar.princeton.edu/hvmilner/home |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=scholar.princeton.edu |language=en}}
In 2021-2022, she served as president of the International Studies Association.{{Cite web |title=Presidents of ISA |url=https://www.isanet.org/ISA/Governance/President/Past-Presidents |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=www.isanet.org}}
Currently, she is conducting research on issues related to globalization and development, such as the political economy of foreign aid, the digital divide and the global diffusion of the internet, and the relationship between globalization and environmental policy.{{Cite web |title=Helen V. Milner |url=https://hvmilner.scholar.princeton.edu |access-date=2024-09-02 |website=Helen V. Milner |language=en}}
Research
In her 1988 book Resisting Protectionism, Milner seeks to explain why U.S. trade policy in the 1920s was more protectionist than in the 1970s, despite many similar underlying conditions.{{Cite web |last=Winecoff |first=W. Kindred |date=2017 |title=How Did American International Political Economy Become Reductionist? A Historiography of a Discipline |url=https://oxfordre.com/politics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-345 |website=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics |language=en |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.345 |isbn=978-0-19-022863-7}} She argues that greater economic interdependence in the latter period created a coalition of actors who stood to gain from trade and thus lobbied against protectionism. The social science research design book Designing Social Inquiry by King, Keohane and Verba characterizes her study as a successful way that qualitative scholars can overcome omitted variable bias.{{Cite book |last1=King |first1=Gary |title=Designing Social Inquiry |last2=Keohane |first2=Robert O. |last3=Verba |first3=Sidney |date=1994 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-2121-1 |location=Princeton |pages=179–182 |doi=10.1515/9781400821211}}
Awards
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- Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford University, 1979.
- Ray Atherton Fellowship in International Relations, Harvard University, 1980–1981 and 1981–1982.
- Teaching Fellowship, Harvard University, 1982–1983.
- Research Fellowship, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 1983–1984.
- Kennedy Traveling Fellowship, Harvard University, 1985, dissertation research in Paris at the Atlantic Institute for International Relations.
- Sumner Prize, awarded by Harvard University for the exceptional thesis in international law and peace, June 1986.
- Summer Fellowship, Columbia University Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1987 and 1988.
- German Marshall Fund Fellowship, 1989-90 (declined).
- Social Science Research Council Advanced Research Fellowship in Foreign Policy Studies, 1989-91.
- Research grants, Institute for Social and Economic Policy Research, Columbia University, 1999-2002.
- Member, Council on Foreign Relations, 2002–present.{{Cite web |url=https://www.cfr.org/membership/roster |title=Membership Roster |publisher=Council on Foreign Relations |access-date=May 1, 2019}}
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000–present.
- Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford CA., 2001–02.
- Fellow, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy, summer 2004.
- Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, elected 2019{{Cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20044158.html|title=Helen V. Milner |website=National Academy of Sciences |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128100135/http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20044158.html |archive-date= Nov 28, 2022 }}
Bibliography
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- {{cite book | last = Milner | first = Helen V. | title = Resisting protectionism: global industries and the politics of international trade | url = https://archive.org/details/resistingprotect0000miln | url-access = registration | publisher = Princeton University Press | location = Princeton, New Jersey | year = 1988 | isbn = 9780691010748 }}
- {{Cite book | editor-last1 = Milner | editor-first1 = Helen V. | editor-last2 = Baldwin | editor-first2 = David | title = The political economy of national security: an annotated bibliography | publisher = Westview Press | location = Boulder, Colorado | year = 1990 | isbn = 9780813379081 }}
- {{Cite book | editor-last1 = Milner | editor-first1 = Helen V. | editor-last2 = Baldwin | editor-first2 = David | title = East-west trade and the atlantic alliance | publisher = Palgrave Macmillan | location = New York | year = 2014 | orig-year = 1990 | isbn = 9781349210510 }}
- {{Cite book | editor-last = Milner | editor-first = Helen V. | title = The Library of International Political Economy (Series) | publisher = Edward Elgar | location = London | date = 1993 }} General editor of multi-volume series.
- {{Cite book | editor-last1 = Milner | editor-first1 = Helen V. | editor-last2 = Keohane | editor-first2 = Robert | editor-link2 = Robert Keohane | title = Internationalization and domestic politics | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge England New York, NY, USA | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780521565875 }}
- {{Cite book | editor-last1 = Milner | editor-first1 = Helen V. | editor-last2 = Mansfield | editor-first2 = Edward D. | editor-link2 = Edward D. Mansfield | title = The political economy of regionalism | publisher = Columbia University Press | location = New York | year = 1997 | isbn = 9780231106634 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/politicaleconomy00mans }}
- {{cite book | last = Milner | first = Helen V. | title = Interests, institutions, and information: domestic politics and international relations | publisher = Princeton University Press | location = Princeton, New Jersey | year = 1997 | isbn = 9780691011769 }}
- {{Cite book | editor-last1 = Milner | editor-first1 = Helen V. | editor-last2 = Katznelson | editor-first2 = Ira | editor-link2 = Ira Katznelson | title = Political science: state of the discipline | publisher = W.W. Norton for the American Political Science Association | location = New York Washington, D.C | year = 2002 | isbn = 9780393978711 }}
- {{Cite book | editor-last = Milner | editor-first = Helen V. | title = The International Library of Writings on the New Global Economy (Series) | url = http://eepaws.servers.lab.uk/shop/books?book_series=The%20International%20Library%20of%20Writings%20on%20the%20New%20Global%20Economy%20series | publisher = Edward Elgar | location = London | date = 2002–2003 }} General editor of multi-volume series.
- {{Cite book | last1 = Milner | first1 = Helen V. | last2 = Moravcsik | first2 = Andrew | author-link2 = Andrew Moravcsik | title = Power, interdependence, and nonstate actors in world politics | publisher = Princeton University Press | location = Princeton, New Jersey | year = 2009 | isbn = 9780691140285 }}
- {{Cite book | last1 = Milner | first1 = Helen V. | last2 = Mansfield | first2 = Edward D. | author-link2 = Edward D. Mansfield | title = Votes, vetoes, and the political economy of international trade agreements | publisher = Princeton University Press | location = Princeton, New Jersey | year = 2012 | isbn = 9781280494222 }}
- {{Cite book|title=Sailing the Water's Edge: The Domestic Politics of American Foreign Policy|last1=Milner|first1=Helen V.|last2=Tingley|first2=Dustin|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2016|isbn=9780691165479|location=Princeton, New Jersey}}
References
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External links
- [http://scholar.princeton.edu/hvmilner Princeton - Helen V. Milner]
- [https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/hvmilner/files/milner_cv.pdf Princeton - Helen V. Milner - Curriculum Vitae]
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