Randall Stone

Randall W. Stone (born February 21, 1966) is an American political scientist and a professor at the University of Rochester, notable for his studies on international political economy, international relations, and Russian and European politics.

Stone has conducted extensive research on global economy, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and institutional design, and in 2012, was awarded the International Studies Association’s Chadwick F. Alger Prize for his book, Controlling Institutions: International Organizations and the Global Economy. Director of the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies at the University of Rochester, Stone speaks Russian, German, and Polish, and frequently travels to the region.^[1] Stone is also the author of Lending Credibility: The International Monetary Fund and the Post-Communist Transition (Princeton, 2002) and Satellites and Commissars: Strategy and Conflict in the Politics of Soviet-Bloc Trade (Princeton, 1996).

Stone earned a B.A. in government at Harvard University in 1988, and a Ph.D. in political science at Harvard University in 1993. He has been awarded grants by the NSF, SSRC, NCEEER, and IREX, and was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Berlin.^[2] His articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Review of International Relations, and Global Environmental Politics.^[3] Stone has also been cited by the New York Times, CNBC, PBS News, and Foreign Policy Magazine for his insight into current affairs in Ukraine and Crimea.^[4]

Selected works

• Controlling Institutions: International Organizations and the Global Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2011.
• Lending Credibility: The International Monetary Fund and the Post-Communist Transition. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2002
• Satellites and Commissars: Strategy and Conflict in the Politics of Soviet-Bloc Trade. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1996.
• “International Organizations as Policy Advisors.” (With Songying Fang). International Organization 66(4) (November):537-71
• "The Kyoto Protocol: Two-Level Bargaining and European Integration." (With Elena Plaxina McLean). International Studies Quarterly 56 (1) (March 2012): 99-113.
• "Sharing Risk in International Politics." Global Environmental Politics 9 (3) (August 2009): 40-60.
• "The Scope of IMF Conditionality." International Organization 62 (Fall 2008): 589-620.
• "Democracy and the Logic of Political Survival." (With Kevin A. Clarke). American Political Science Review 102 (3) (August 2008).
• "Choosing How to Cooperate: A Repeated Public_Goods Model of International Relations." (With Branislav L. Slantchev and Tamar R. London). International Studies Quarterly 52 (2) (June 2008): 335-362.
• "The International Monetary Fund: A Review of the Recent Evidence." (With Martin Steinwand). Review of International Organizations 3 (2) (June 2008): 123-149.
• "The Political Economy of IMF Lending in Africa." American Political Science Review 98 (4) (November 2004): 577-92
• "The Use and Abuse of Game Theory in International Relations: The Theory of Moves." Journal of Conflict Resolution 45 (2) (April 2001): 216-44.

See also

• International Monetary Fund

References

1. Political Scientist Named Director of University's Polish Studies Center. (2007) University of Rochester. Accessed June 9, 2014).
2. Randall Stone. Department of Political Science. University of Rochester. Accessed June 5, 2014.
3. Randall W. Stone: Professor of Political Science. University of Rochester. Accessed June 9, 2014.
4. Randall Stone. University of Rochester. Accessed June 9, 2014.

External links

• Official website
• Randall Stone. Department of Political Science. University of Rochester. Accessed June 5, 2014.