Senior Researchers

Allison Stanger is the Russell Leng '60 Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College. Her most recent book, One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy, was published by Yale University Press in fall 2009 (paperback edition came out in January 2011). Stanger has published op-eds on this topic in the Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, New York Times, and Washington Post, and has testified before Congress three times on contracting and corruption issues. She recently served as an advisor to Secretary Clinton's Policy Planning Staff, US Department of State and was on the writing team that produced the State Department's first four year strategic review. While at CERGE-EI, she is working on two projects, one titled Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Leaks: The Story of Whistleblowing in America (under contract with Yale) and another on the impact of the Internet revolution on American democracy.

Stanger received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. She also holds an AM in Regional Studies-Soviet Union (Harvard), a graduate diploma in Economics (London School of Economics), and a BS in Actuarial Science/Mathematics (Ball State University). She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Professor Stanger is also the co-editor and co-translator (with Michael Kraus) of Irreconcilable Differences? Explaining Czechoslovakia's Dissolution (foreword by Václav Havel) and the author of numerous articles and essays. Her research has been funded by the International Relations and Exchanges Board, the National Council for Soviet and East European Research, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Science Foundation, the Institute for the Study of World Politics, and the MacArthur Foundation. She has also served as visiting professor of Government at Harvard University.