Government and International Relations

Valerie Sperling 

Valerie Sperling, Ph.D.


Associate Professor of Government
Department of Government
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610-1477

email: vsperling@clarku.edu

Current Research and Teaching

Her research interests include state-society relations, social movements, gender politics, patriotism, and state-building in the post-communist region. Currently, she is working on a new book project about the effects of globalization on liberal democratic state-building.

 

To learn more about Valeries's research, go to Clark's Active Learning and Research pages. 

A recent publication (a policy memo for the Program on New Approaches to Russian Security) http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/pm_0398.pdf

Recent Publications:

Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia: Engendering Transition. Cambridge University Press (November 1999).

Building the Russian State: Institutional Crisis and the Quest for Democratic Governance. Valerie Sperling, ed. Westview Press (May 2000).

Recent Articles and Book Chapters:

Valerie Sperling, Myra Marx Ferree, and Barbara Risman, "Constructing Global Feminism: Transnational Advocacy Networks and Russian Women's Activism," Signs , Vol. 26, No. 4, (2001), pp. 1156-1186.

 

Valerie Sperling, "The Domestic and International Obstacles to State-Building in Russia", in Valerie Sperling, ed., Building the Russian State: Institutional Crisis and the Quest for Democratic Governance (Westview Press, May 2000), pp. 1-23.

Valerie Sperling, "The 'New' Sexism: Images of Russian Women During the Transition," in Judyth Twigg and Mark Field, eds., Russia's Torn Safety Nets: Health and Social Welfare During the Transition (St. Martin's Press, June 2000), pp. 173-189.

Valerie Sperling, "The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel: Patriotism, Militarism, and the Russian National Idea," Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 9, No.2(2003), pp. 235-253.

Professor Sperling was interviewed about her new book, Altered States: The Globalization of Accountability, for an hour on a radio show in Columbia, Missouri, Thursday, August 20, 2009. You can find the live stream audio at:  "A Chautauqua" (KOPN radio, Columbia Missouri) interview Valerie Sperling about her book, Altered States(August 20, 2009).

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