David Spiro

After beginning his career as an academic, David E. Spiro became a business consultant, and he is Founding Principal of The Strategy Practice, LLC. He recently returned to writing and research as a visiting scholar at the International Studies
Association.
David was born in Burlington, VT, and grew up in Baltimore and central New Jersey.
His PhD in international political economy is from the Department of Politics at Princeton University, where he received an AB in Near Eastern studies. Robert G. Gilpin supervised his dissertation, and the other members of his committee were John Waterbury (now President of American University in Beirut) and Henry Bienen (now President of Northwestern University).
In 1985 David took his first teaching position at Brandeis University, and then from 1986-1994 he taught at
Columbia University, in the Department of Political Science and the School for International and Public Affairs. During the same period he was a Research Associate at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University,
and for two years he was a visiting professor in the Department of Government.
He taught at the University of Arizona from 1994-1999 in the Department of Political Science,
after which he decided to take a hiatus from academe.
David has blended Gilpin's realist theory with constructivism, and he was an early author in the school now know as Constructivist Realism. His current research continues in that vein, in papers on identity theft, and on the social construction of borders and citizenship.
David lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Selected publications
* The Hidden Hand of American Hegemony: Petrodollar Recycling and International Markets (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999)
* (with Janice Stein, Steven Weber, et. al.), "Prediction and the Middle East Peace Process," Security Studies (Summer 1998)
* The American Economy and Relations with Japan in the Near Future, Institute for International Economic Studies Monograph Number 9706 (Tokyo: 1997).
* "The Insignificance of the Liberal Peace," International Security 19, 2 (Fall 1994): 50-86
* Capital and Debt Policy," in Robert J. Art and Seyom Brown, eds. U.S. Foreign Policy: The Search for a New Role (New York: Macmillan, 1993)
* "The State of Cooperation in Theories of State Cooperation: The Evolution of a Category Mistake," Journal of International Affairs 42, 1 (Fall 1988): 205-225

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