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Kathryn Lavelle is the Ellen and Dixon Long professor of World Affairs at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Her research explores the exchange between economic and political institutions with a particular emphasis on global financial issues.

Dr. Lavelle’s research explores global governance. She recently completed a book that traces the history of multilateralism–or the coordination of relations among three or more states according to certain principles—from the nineteenth century to the present. It pays particular attention to the relationship between domestic and international politics that have helped and hindered the process over time. Her new project similarly integrates a variety of economic, security, and environmental issues that have come together as the US engages the Arctic region in the twenty-first century.

She is the author of The Challenges of Multilateralism and another book on American governing institutions that formulate financial policy titled Money and Banks in the American Political System. She derived the analytical framework for this and her book on Congress and the IMF and World Bank from her experience working as a Congressional fellow on the staff of the House Committee on Financial Services for Chairman Barney Frank. Since that time, she has used extensive archival evidence and interviews to provide additional evidence for the policy process in the domestic and international arenas.

Among her other books is a scholarly monograph Legislating International Organization: The US Congress, the IMF, and the World Bank (Oxford University Press, 2011), which explores the intersection of national and international politics in the American legislature with respect to the Bretton Woods institutions from their origins to the present. Her first book, The Politics of Equity Finance in Emerging Markets (Oxford University Press, 2004), analyzed the historical and political processes that led to the ownership structures of large firms in middle and low-income countries.

Dr. Lavelle holds a PhD in political science from Northwestern University; an M.A. in government and foreign affairs from the University of Virginia and a bachelors degree in international economics from Georgetown University. She is a permanent member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations and a Global Fellow in the Global Europe program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

She has been a frequent guest on Dialogue, the weekly television show of the Wilson Center, and the local NPR affiliate.

Kathryn tweets from @kathrynlavelle

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