The Department of Political Science and the International Political Economy Network (IPEN) present:

Benjamin Cohen
University of California, Santa Barbara

Benjamin J. Cohen is Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has been a member of the Political Science Department since 1991. He was educated at Columbia University, earning a PhD in Economics in 1963. He has worked as a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1962-1964) and previously taught at Princeton University (1964-1971) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (1971-1991). He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard University, University College London, and the Institute of Political Study (Sciences-Po) in Paris. A specialist in the political economy of international money and finance, he is the author of sixteen books, including most recently Currency Statecraft: Monetary Rivalry and Geopolitical Ambition, published by the University of Chicago Press. He has won numerous awards and in 2000 was named Distinguished Scholar of the year by the International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association.

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