Andrew C. Sobel

Andrew C. Sobel specializes in the politics of global finance with a focus on domestic explanations of international behavior. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan. He is on the faculty of International and Area Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, a member of the Academic Board of Directors of the Center for New Institutional Social Sciences, and on the Faculty Advisory Council to the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Work and Social Capital at Washington University. He has won numerous teaching awards. He has published many articles and is the author or editor of six books, including Domestic Choices, International Markets (1994); State Institutions, Private Incentives, Global Capital (1999, 2002); Political Economy and Global Affairs (2006); The Challenges of Globalization (2009); and Birth of Hegemony: Crisis, Financial Revolution, and Emerging Global Networks (2012).