Dr. Yale H. Ferguson
Phone: 973-353-5585
Email: yhfergus@andromeda.rutgers.eduYale H. Ferguson is Professor II of Political Science, Rutgers University-Newark, USA and Co-Director with Richard Langhorne of the Rutgers University Center for Global Change and Governance (CGCG). For ten (nonconsecutive) years, ending mid-2001, he was Chair of the Department of Political Science and, previously, Graduate Director.
Professor Ferguson received his BA from Trinity University (San Antonio) and his Ph.D. from Columbia, and joined the Rutgers-Newark faculty in 1966. He teaches a variety of courses related to his research interests in global politics.
Editor
* Contemporary Inter-American Relations (1972);Co-editor
* Continuing Issues in International Politics (1973) (with the late Walter F. Weiker)
* (with R. J. Barry Jones, U. of Reading, UK) Political Space: Frontiers of Change and Governance in a Globalizing World (2002)Co-author (with Richard W. Mansbach, Iowa State)
* The Web of World Politics: Nonstate Actors in the Global System (1976),
* The Elusive Quest: Theory and International Politics (1988)
* The State, Conceptual Chaos, and the Future of International Relations Theory (1989)
* Polities: Authority, Identities, and Change (1996). Received the International Studies Association-Midwest's Lynne Rienner/Quincy Wright Award for the Best IR book in 1996.
* The Elusive Quest Continues: Theory and Global Politics (2003)
* Remapping Global Politics: History's Revenge and Future Shock (2004)
* Mansbach and he are currently working on a retrospective collection of their essays for Routledge Press, and a book on Pre-International Polities for Cambridge University Press.Co-Author (with James N. Rosenau, David C. Earnest, and Ole R. Holsti)
*On The Cutting Edge of Globalization: An Inquiry into American Elites (2005)
Professor Ferguson is the author/co-author of some forty-five book chapters and articles. He is on the editorial advisory boards of International Studies Review and Global Governance. From 1999-2003 he served on the editorial advisory board of International Studies Quarterly, and from1995-2000, on the international advisory board of the European Journal of International Relations. In 1999 he was honored with the Rutgers University Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research.
Professor Ferguson has been Visiting Fellow at both the Centre of International Studies and Clare Hall (where he is a Life Member) at the University of Cambridge in 1986-87 and 1991; a Fulbright Professor at the University of Salzburg in Austria, 1992-93; and Senior Fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway, 1996. During 2001 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Salzburg and Visiting Scholar at the University of Padova. In 2002 the University of Salzburg made him an Honorary Professor. In 2005 he was elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
