Chad Rector

CV revised June, 2009

Date of birth April 28, 1974

Department of Political Science

The George Washington University
Monroe Hall, 417
2115 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052
rector@gwu.edu

Academic Employment
George Washington University. 2003-. Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs.

Education
University of California, San Diego. 1997-2003. Ph.D., Dept. of Political Science.
Columbia University. 1996-1997. M.A., Dept. of Political Science.
University of Michigan. 1992-1996. B.A., College of Literature, Science, and Arts.

Book
Federations: Political Dynamics of Cooperation. Cornell University Press. 2009. ISBN: 978-0-8014-
4736-5 (hardcover), 978-0-8014-7524-5 (paperback).

Published Papers
National Unification and Mistrust: Bargaining Power and the Prospects for a PRC/Taiwan Agreement.
With Scott L. Kastner. Security Studies 17 (2008): 39-71.
Partisanship and the Path to Financial Openness. With Scott L. Kastner. Comparative Political Studies 38
(2005): 484-506.
International Regimes, Domestic Veto-Players, and Capital Controls Policy Stability. With Scott L.
Kastner. International Studies Quarterly 47, 1 (2003): 1-22.
Buying Treaties with Cigarettes: Internal Side-payments in Two Level Games. International Interactions
27, 3 (2001): 207-238.

Archived Data
Capital Control Policy Changes, 1951-1998 [Computer file]. ICPSR release. San Diego, CA: University
of California at San Diego [producer], 1999. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for
Political and Social Research [distributor], 2004. With Scott L. Kastner.

Awards and grants

2008 George Washington University Facilitating Fellowship. $6,116.
2008 George Washington Institute of Public Policy. $10,000.
2004 George Washington University Facilitating Fellowship. $5,974.
2004 George Washington University Junior Scholar Incentive Award. $5,974.
2004 American Consortium on European Union Studies (ACES) seed grant. €1,500
2003 Quon Prize for UCSD graduate most likely to contribute to the scientific study of politics. $500.
2001-2002 Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation Dissertation Fellowship. $16,000
2000-2001 UCSD Friends of the International Center Scholarship. $1,000.
Annual Meeting presentations
Endogenous Internal Side-Payments in Two-Level Games.
Paper presented at the Southwest Political Science Association Meeting, 1999.
Guided Choice or Natural Selection? A Survival Analysis of Democratic Diffusion.
Paper presented at the Western Political Science Association Meeting, 2000.
Veto Players and Capital Controls Policy Stability. With Scott Kastner
Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, 2000.
Poster presented at the Society for Political Methodology Meeting, 2001.
Federation, International Organization, and Self-Sufficiency.
Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Meeting, 2000.
Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, 2001.
Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Meeting, 2002.
Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Meeting, 2005.
Paper presented at the International Political Economy Society Meeting, 2006.
Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, 2008.
Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, 2009.
Market and Identity Motives in Australian Federation: Evidence from Parliamentary Divisions.
Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, 2002.
Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Meeting, 2001.
Poster presented at the Society for Political Methodology, 2002.
Partisan Cycles and Capital Controls Policies. With Scott Kastner
Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, 2002.
Federal Agreements in the Shadow of War: Argentina and Germany.
Paper presented at the Western Political Science Association Meeting, 2002.
Getting There is Half the Battle: Military Mobilization and Crisis Escalation.
Paper presented at the Peace Science Society, 2002.
Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, 2003.
Authority and Coercion in the War on Terror. With Ethan Hollander.
Paper presented at the International Studies Association International Meeting, 2003.
Imperial Self-Restraint: Britain and its Settler Colonies.
Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Meeting, 2004.
Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, 2006.
The Partisan Path of Capital Controls Policy Diffusion. With Kara Heitz and Scott Kastner.
Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, 2004.
Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Meeting, 2005.
Redesigning Constitutions: Incremental Change versus Starting from Scratch in Australia and the EU.
Paper presented at the International Studies Association, 2004.
Credible Commitment and the Prospects for China-Taiwan Reunification. With Scott Kastner.
Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, 2005.
Paper presented at the International Studies Association Meeting, 2006.
Preventive War Impulses and Outside Support for Secession.
Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, 2007.
Invited presentations
Contrived Symmetry through Federal Unions. Georgetown University Department of Political Science,
Washington, DC, November 2008.
International Organizations and the War on Terror. Ewha Womans University Graduate School of
International Studies, Seoul, Korea, May 2006.
Federations, International Organizations, and Self-Sufficiency. University of Maryland Department of
Political Science, March 2005.
Federations, International Organizations, and Self-Sufficiency. Columbia University Department of
Political Science, November 2004.
Voting for Federation in New South Wales. Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National
University, November 2001.
Veto Players and Financial Reforms in the OECD. School of International Relations and Pacific Studies,
UCSD, May 2000.

Journal reviewer
American Journal of Political Science
American Political Science Review
International Journal of Political Science
International Studies Quarterly
Journal of Peace Research
Journal of Politics
Political Research Quarterly
World Politics

Political Science Courses taught at GWU

003 Introduction to International Politics. Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007,
Spring 2008, Spring 2009.
142 International Organizations. Spring 2009.
161 European-Atlantic Relations. Fall 2006.
192 Undergraduate Proseminar (various topics)
Global Governance . Spring 2004.
How Britain Managed its Empire. Fall 2004.
European-Atlantic Cooperation. Spring 2007.
Global Warming. Fall 2007, Summer 2008
US-UK Relations (Special Short-Term Study Abroad Program). Spring 2008.
240 International Politics. Fall 2003, Spring 2005.
353 Advanced Theories of International Political Economy. Spring 2006, Fall 2008.

Other Courses
CCAS 010 Proseminar for Scholarship and Advising. Fall 2004, Fall 2005

Theses or dissertations at GWU

Yeh-chung Lu, Reader, Ph.D. dissertation, 2009
Logan Wright, Reader, Ph.D. dissertation, 2009
Michael Gleason, Reader, Ph.D. dissertation, 2008
John Gentry, Reader, Ph.D. dissertation, 2008
Michael MacLeod, Reader, Ph.D. dissertation, 2007
Injoo Sohn Reader, Ph.D. dissertation, 2006
Anita Teekah Primary advisor, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, 2004
Department and College service at GWU
Fall 2003 Department Secretary
Spring 2004 Department Secretary
Summer 2005 Colonial Inauguration Advisor
Fall 2004 CCAS Undergraduate Advisor
Spring 2005 CCAS Undergraduate Advisor
Summer 2005 Colonial Inauguration Advisor
Fall 2005 CCAS Undergraduate Advisor
Fall 2005 Department Korea Faculty Search Committee
Spring 2006 CCAS Undergraduate Advisor
Spring 2006 Department Korea Faculty Search Committee
Fall 2006 New GTA faculty advisor
Fall 2006 Freshman Convocation
Fall 2007 Department Korea Faculty Search Committee
Fall 2008 New GTA faculty advisor