
Professor of Political Science
Rudra Sil is Professor of Political Science and the SAS Director of the Huntsman Program in International Studies & Business. His research and teaching interests encompass comparative politics, ֱ/post-communist studies, Asian studies, labor politics, international development, international relations theory, qualitative methodology, and the philosophy of the social sciences. He is author ofManaging ‘Modernity’: Work, Community, and Authority in Late-Industrializing Japan and Russia(University of Michigan Press, 2002) andBeyond Paradigms: Analytic Eclecticism in the Study of World Politics(Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010), coauthored with Peter Katzenstein. The latter book was one of thirteen titles in international relations honored as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title in 2011. Professor Sil’s articleshave appeared in a wide range of journals, includingPerspectives on Politics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Industrial Relations, Studies in Comparative International Development, Current History,andPost-Soviet Affairs. He is also author of more than a dozen book chapters and coeditor of five anthologies, includingThe Politics of Labor in a Global Age(Oxford University Press, 2001),World Order After Leninism(University of Washington Press, 2007) and, most recently,Comparative Area Studies: Methodological Rationales and Cross-Regional Applicatons(forthcoming, Oxford University Press). Professor Sil is currently working on two books,Russia Reconsidered: Fate of a Former Superpower(under contract, Cambridge University Press) andPathways of the Post-communist Proletariat: Labor Politics in Russia, China and Eastern Europe.Some of the research for the latter book was presented in a paper that received the APSA Best Paper Award for the Labor Studies section at the 2013 Annual Meeting.
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Selected Publications
- BOOK --Managing "Modernity": Work Community and Authority in Late-Industrializing Japan and Russia. University of Michigan Press, 2002.Order this book from the.
- BOOK --Beyond Paradigms: Analytic Eclecticism in the Study of World Politics.Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Coauthored with Peter J. Katzenstein. --CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title in 2011.Order this book from the.
- ARTICLE -- “,”Journal of Industrial Relations(forthcoming Fall 2017).
- ARTICLE -- “,” Current History,vol. 116, no. 788 (March 2017).
- ARTICLE -- ",”(with Guzman Castro) inAPSA-CP: Newsletter of the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association26, 1 (Spring 2016): 40-43.
- ARTICLE -- "" (with Amel Ahmed),Perspectives on Politics10, 4(December 2012): 935-953.
- ARTICLE -- "" (with Peter J. Katzenstein),Perspectives on Politics8, 2 (June 2010): 411-431.
- ARTICLE -- "" (with Cheng Chen),Post-Soviet Affairs23, 4 (2007): 275-301.
- ARTICLE -- "" (with Calvin Chen).Studies in Comparative International Development,41, 2 (Summer 2006): 62-87.
- ARTICLE -- "" (with Cheng Chen),Europe-Asia Studies56, 3 (May 2004).
- ARTICLE -- ","Journal of Theoretical Politics(July 2000).