Ido Oren
Associate Professor
Associate Chair
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1992
Email:oren@polisci.ufl.edu
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My areas of interest include international relations' theory, American foreign policy, history of American political science and philosophy of social science. My book, Our Enemies and US: America's Rivalries and the Making of Political Science (Cornell University Press, 2003) questions the objectivity of American political science, as well as its alleged attachment to democracy, by showing that political scientists' portrayals of foreign regimes (Imperial Germany, Nazi Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union and Fascist Italy) darkened considerably after these regimes became America's enemies, and that America's wars against these regimes occasioned changes in political scientists' portrayals of America itself. I have recently launched a new research project exploring the domestic politics of U.S. foreign policy in the energy-rich Caspian Sea region. Please visit my web page to see a full listing of my publications.
