McGuinn Hall Room 516
Telephone: 617-552-4071
Email: jonathan.kirshner@bc.edu
International Relations, Political Economy, Politics and Film聽
Jonathan Kirshner is Professor of Political Science and International Studies. His research and teaching interests focus on international relations, political economy (especially macroeconomics and money), and politics and film. His current research includes projects on classical realism, the international political implications of the financial crisis and its aftermath, and the politics of mid-century cinema.
Prior to joining Boston College, Kirshner was the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Government at Cornell University. At Cornell, he also served as director of the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies from 2007 to 2015, and was the recipient of the Provost Award for Distinguished Scholarship and the Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award.
Recent books include American Power after the Financial Crisis, and Hollywood Last Golden Age: Politics, Society and the Seventies Film in America. His first book, Currency and Coercion, explored how states manipulate international monetary relations to advance security-related goals. Another book, Appeasing Bankers: Financial Caution on the Road to War, illustrated how financial interests (such as banks) and international financial markets can shape and constrain states grand strategies and influence decisions about war and peace. Appeasing Bankers won the best book award from the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association.聽
Kirshner was the first World Politics Visiting Fellow at Princeton University Institute for International and Regional Studies, and was the director of the Economics and National Security Program at the Olin Institute at Harvard University from 2000-04. With Eric Helleiner, he is the co-editor of the multi-disciplinary book series 淐ornell Studies in Money, as well as the books The Great Wall of Money: Power and Politics in China International Monetary Relations and The Future of the Dollar.
An Unwritten Future: Realism, Uncertainty, and World Politics聽(Princeton University聽Press, 2022)
The Downfall of the American Order?聽(Cornell University Press, 2022,聽co-edited with Peter Katzenstein)
American Power After the Financial Crisis聽(Cornell University Press, 2014)
When the Movies Mattered: The New Hollywood Revisited聽(Cornell University Press, 2019, co-edited with Jon Lewis)
"Gone but not Forgotten: Trump's Long Shadow and the End of American Credibility,"聽Foreign Affairs聽(March/April 2021)
淭he Keynesian Revolution,澛Boston Review, July 13, 2020.
淭he Man Who Predicted Nazi Germany,澛New York Times, December 7, 2019
淜eynes Early Beliefs and Why They Still Matter,澛Challenge听58:5
淗andle Him with Care: The Importance of Getting Thucydides Right,澛Security Studies听28:1
淭he Economic Sins of IR Theory and the Classical Realist Alternative,澛World Politics聽67:1
淲ho Knew it Could Get Worse? When Nixon Haunted the New Hollywood,澛颁颈苍别补蝉迟别听43:2
淪ame as it Ever Was? Continuity and Change in the International Monetary System,澛Review of International Political Economy听21:5
淭he Tragedy of Offensive Realism: Classical Realism and the Rise of China,澛European
Journal of International Relations, 18:1