Paul K. MacDonald

Paul K. MacDonald is an American political scientist and an Associate Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College.[1] He is known for his research on global power politics, U.S. foreign policy, and the political and military dimensions of overseas expansion.

Paul K. MacDonald
OccupationAssociate Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College
Academic background
Alma materB.A, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D, Columbia University
Academic work
DisciplineInternational Relations
Main interestsInternational Security
Power Politics
Imperialism
U.S. Foreign Policy
Websitesites.google.com/a/wellesley.edu/paul-k-macdonald/about

His work has been widely published in the American Political Science Review, International Organization, International Security, Security Studies, Review of International Studies, and Foreign Affairs.[2][3][4][5][6] He is also a faculty member of the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs.[7]

In the Foreign Affairs review of MacDonald's book Networks of Domination: The Social Foundations of Peripheral Conquest in International Politics, G. John Ikenberry comments: "The book is a sober reminder that great military power and dreams of empire cannot guarantee control of even a small foreign country -- much less world domination."[8] Jack Snyder similarly noted that MacDonald's research helps "sharpen the insights of those who think about grand strategy and those who study how social network patterns shape our world."[9]

Education and Career

MacDonald earned his B.A. in political science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1998 and his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 2007.[1] He became an Assistant Professor at Williams College in 2008, and joined Wellesley College in 2011. He was awarded Wellesley College's highest teaching award, the Anna and Samuel Pinanski Teaching Prize, in 2018.[10]

MacDonald has held research positions at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, and the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.[11][12] In 2019, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.[13]

Publications
  • Twilight of the Titans: Great Power Decline and Retrenchment. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018.
  • Networks of Domination: The Social Foundations of Peripheral Conquest in International Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
  • "The Return of Great Power Competition," panel discussion at CATO Institute. January 15, 2019

References
  1. "Paul K. MacDonald". Wellesley College. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  2. MacDonald, Paul K.; Parent, Joseph M. (2020-10-19). "Trump Didn't Shrink U.S. Military Commitments Abroad—He Expanded Them". Foreign Affairs : America and the World. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  3. MacDonald, Paul K.; Parent, Joseph M. (2014-09-23). "The Retrenchment War". Foreign Affairs : America and the World. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  4. MacDonald, Paul K.; Parent, Joseph M. (2014-03-10). "The Banality of Retrenchment". Foreign Affairs : America and the World. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  5. Parent, Joseph M.; MacDonald, Paul K. (2015-08-12). "The Wisdom of Retrenchment". Foreign Affairs : America and the World. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  6. MacDonald, Paul K. (2013). ""Retribution Must Succeed Rebellion": The Colonial Origins of Counterinsurgency Failure". International Organization. 67 (2): 253–286. doi:10.1017/S0020818313000027. ISSN 0020-8183. JSTOR 43283302.
  7. "Paul K. MacDonald | Albright Institute". www.wellesley.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  8. "Networks of Domination: The Social Foundations of Peripheral Conquest in International Politics". Foreign Affairs : America and the World. 2014-09-30. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  9. Networks of Domination: The Social Foundations of Peripheral Conquest in International Politics. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2014-06-12. ISBN 978-0-19-936216-5.
  10. "Pinanski Prize". Wellesley College. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  11. "Paul K. MacDonald". cisac.fsi.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  12. "Paul K. MacDonald". Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  13. "Prof. Paul K. MacDonald, Ph.D. - Center for Advanced Studies LMU (CAS) - LMU Munich". www.en.cas.uni-muenchen.de. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
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