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“Transatlantic Defence
Industrial Cooperation
Challenges
and Prospects”

Résidence
Palace
Brussels
18 July 2003

 

Ethan B. Kapstein

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2000-present INSEAD FONTAINEBLEAU, FRANCE
Paul Dubrule Professor of Sustainable Development.
Teach core MBA course on International Political Analysis and conduct research in the areas of business ethics and international economic relations.
1996-present: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Stassen Professor of International Peace, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and Dept. of Political Science. Teach courses and conduct research on international political economy, comparative public policy, and social policy.
1995-1996: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS NEW YORK, NY
Vice President and Director of Studies. Responsible for all aspects of the Studies Program including overall guidance, management, recruitment and fundraising. Directed a major study on Social Policy in Transition Economies, which resulted in an edited volume.
1994-1995: ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC PARIS, FRANCE
COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Principal Administrator, Directorate for Science, Technology, and Industry. Directed OECD programs in the area of industrial restructuring and defense conversion in the former Soviet Union. Focused on problems of social policy in defense-dependent communities.
1984 -1994: HARVARD UNIVERSITY CAMBRIDGE, MA
Director, Economics and National Security Program, John M. Olin Institute (1989-1994); Associate, Center for International Affairs (1984-present); Lecturer in International Business (1984-1994); Associate, Leverett House, Harvard College (1992-present).
1984-1988: BANK OF BOSTON BOSTON, MA
Brazil Officer. Responsible for coordination of Bank’s branch network, participation in sovereign and private sector loan negotiations, and financial product development.
   
EDUCATION
1985-87: HARVARD UNIVERSITY CAMBRIDGE, MA
John M. Olin Pre- and Post-Doctoral Fellow in Economics and National Security, Center for International Affairs.
1982-86: FLETCHER SCHOOL OF LAW AND DIPLOMACY MEDFORD, MA
Ph.D. in International Relations/Political Economy.
1976-1977: UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO TORONTO, ONT
M.A. in History and Philosophy of Science
1971-1976: BROWN UNIVERSITY PROVIDENCE, RI
A.B. in History of Science, June 1976.
   

MILITARY EXPERIENCE

  Commander, United States Navy. Served on special active duty during Operation Desert Storm and as Special Visiting Assistant to Navy Secretary Richard Danzig during Kosovo conflict. Awarded Navy Achievement Medal.
   
RECENT AWARDS AND ACTIVITIES
2001-present: Consultant to Anglo-American, Michelin, Nestle, Pfizer, TotalFinaElf, and other corporations on business ethics and sustainable development strategies.
2001-present: Member, FTSE4GOOD Advisory Committee.
2000-01 Grant from the Upjohn Institute for the project “Responding to Globalization: Social Policy in Emerging
Market Economies.”
1999-00 Grants from the Russell Sage and Rockefeller Foundations for a workshop and book on “The Welfare State in Emerging Market Economies.”
1999 Consultant, CNA Corporation
1999 Member, Department of the Navy’s Personnel Task Force
1999-00 Consultant to the OECD on best practices in public policy
1999 Visiting Professor of International Economics at Universite de Nice and at HEC, France
1999 Special Assistant to Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig
1997-00 Consultant on Social Policy, World Bank
1997 USIS Lecturer in West Africa
1996-99 Consultant on emerging markets, DELTEC Management Corporation
1996-97 Visiting Professor of Economics, Sciences Po, Paris.
1995 Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
1994 Member, International Institute for Strategic Studies.
1994 Visiting Professor, National Institute for Defense Studies, Tokyo, Japan.
1994 Distinguished Visiting Professor, National Defense University, Washington, DC
1992 Outstanding Academic Book Award, Choice, for The Political Economy of National Security.
1991 European Community Visitor’s Program grant.
   
LANGUAGES AND SPECIAL SKILLS
  French (fluent), German (fair), Portuguese (good), Russian (fair).
Excellent Computer Skills.
   
ETHAN B. KAPSTEIN
PUBLICATION LIST
  BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
 

Economic Justice among Nations (Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming)

--and Branko Milanovic, eds. When Markets Fail: Social Policy and Economic Reform (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002).

--and Branko Milanovic, Income and Influence: Social Policy in Emerging Market Economies (Kalamazoo, Mi: Upjohn Institute, forthcoming)

Hegemony Wired: American Politics and the New Economy (Paris: French Institute for International Relations, 2000).

Sharing the Wealth: Workers and the World Economy (New York: Norton, 1999)

--and Michael Mastanduno, eds., Unipolar Politics: Realism and State Strategies after the Cold War (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999)

-- and Michael Mandelbaum, eds., Sustaining the Transition: Social Policy in the Post-Communist Economies (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1997)

Governing the Global Economy: International Finance and the State
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994; paperback, 1996)

--, ed. Downsizing Defense
(Washington, DC: CQ Press, 1993)

--, ed. Global Arms Production
(Lanham, MD: University Press of America for Harvard Center for International Affairs, 1992)

-- and Raymond Vernon, eds. Searching for Security in a Global Economy Daedalus
(Fall 1991)

Supervising International Banks: Origins and Implications of the Basle Accord
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton Essays in International Finance, 1991)

The Political Economy of National Security
(New York: McGraw-Hill (paper) and Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press (cloth), 1991)

The Insecure Alliance: Energy Crises and Western Politics Since 1944
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1990)

  SELECTED ARTICLES
 

“Two Dismal Sciences are Better Than One: Economics and the Study of National Security,” International Security (Winter 2002/03).

“Allies and Armaments,” Survival (Summer 2002)

“Virtuous Circles? Human Capital Formation, Economic Development, and the Multinational Enterprise,” OECD Development Center (Technical Paper no. 191, 2002).

“The Corporate Ethics Crusade,” Foreign Affairs (Sept./Oct. 2001)

“Responding to Globalization: Social Policy in Emerging Market Economies,” Global Social Policy (Fall 2001 with Branko Milanovic)

“ Inequality,Growth and Democracy,” World Politics (January 2001, with Dimitri Landa)

“Winners and Losers in the Global Economy,” International Organization (Spring 2000)

“Dividing the Spoils: Pensions, Privatization, and Reform in Russia’s Transition,” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no. 2292 (March 2000, with Branko Milanovic)

“Democratization and Globalization,” in Marc Plattner, ed., International Relations and Democracy (Washington, DC: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000—with Dimitri Landa)

“Between God and the Market: The Religious Roots of the American Economics Association,” Journal of Economic Perspectives (fall 1999—with Bradley Bateman).

“Reviving Aid,” World Policy Journal (Fall 1999)

“Distributive Justice as an International Public Good: A Historical Perspective,” in Global Public Goods, Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grunberg and Marc A. Stern ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)

“Distributing the Gains: Justice and International Trade,” Journal of International Affairs (Spring 1999)

“Distributive Justice and International Trade” Ethics and International Affairs (1999)

“Trade Liberalization and the Politics of Trade Adjustment Assistance,” International Labor Review (1998)

“A Global Third Way: Social Justice and the World Economy,” World Policy Journal (Fall 1998).

“Global Rules for Global Finance” Current History (Fall 1998)

“Reviving the State?” World Policy Journal (Spring 1998)

“Social Policy and the Transition” Social Research (Winter 1998)

“Advanced Industrialized Countries,” in A. Pierre, ed., Cascade of Arms: Managing Conventional Weapons Proliferation (Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1997)

“Hamilton and the Jeffersonian Myth,” World Policy Journal (Spring 1997)

“Racing to the Bottom? Regulating International Labor Standards,” International Politics and Society
(Spring 1997)

“Workers and the World Economy,” Foreign Affairs (May/June 1996)

“Shockproof: The End of the Financial Crisis,” Foreign Affairs (January/February 1996)

“Is Realism Dead? The Domestic Sources of International Politics,” International Organization (Autumn 1995)

“The Economic Transition in Defence-Dependent Regions of Russia,” Defence and Peace Economics (1995, Vol.6)

--and C. Marshall Mills, “Defence Conversion in Russia’s Regions,” OECD Observer (February/March 1995)

“America’s Arms Trade Monopoly,” Foreign Affairs (May/June 1994)

“Governing Global Finance,” The Washington Quarterly (Spring 1994)

“We are US: The Myth of the Multinational,” The National Interest (Winter 1991/92)

“Between Power and Purpose: Central Bankers and the Politics of International Regulation,” International Organization (Winter 1991/92)

“International Collaboration in Armaments Production,” Political Science Quarterly (Winter 1991/92)

--and Raymond Vernon, “National Needs, Global Resources,” Daedalus (Fall 1991)

“The Brazilian Defense Industry and the International System,” Political Science Quarterly (Winter 1990-91)

“The Basle Accord and Financial Competition,” Harvard Business Review (January/February 1990)

  NEWSPAPER/ OP-ED
 

“What the Arab World Can Teach the West,” Wall Street Journal Europe (April 24, 2003)

“Five Basic Principles for a Worldwide Code of Business Ethics,” International Herald Tribune (January 24, 2001)

“L’Amerique, Machine Egalitaire,” L’Expansion (December 7, 2000)

“Beware of What You Ask For,” International Herald Tribune (May 23, 2000)

“Collapse of a World Safety Net,” Los Angeles Times (January 31, 1999)

“Africa is Missing out on a Revolution,” International Herald Tribune (September 24, 1998)

“Back to Basics,” Los Angeles Times (September 6, 1998)

“Barking Up the Wrong Tree,” International Herald Tribune (May 30-31, 1998)

“How Russia Could Make Good Use of the Asian Crisis,” International Herald Tribune (January 26, 1998)

“West Finally Sees Regimes as Part of Woes in Asia,” Los Angeles Times (January 21, 1998)

“Free Trade's Dirty Little Secret,” Minneapolis Star-Tribune (Sept. 11, 1997)

“Capital Mobile, Travailleurs Immobile,” Le Monde (March 30, 1997)

“The Welfare State? An Economic Cornerstone, Not a Luxury” International Herald Tribune (January 30, 1997)

“France Versus Europe,” New York Times (December 8, 1995)

“Russia’s Future Could Well Be Found In Its Provinces,” International Herald Tribune (November 24, 1995).

 

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