David Welch

Professor and University Research Chair
David Welch

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Areas of specialization

  • International Relations 
  • International Security 
  • International Theory 
  • Global Governance 
  • Foreign policy decision making  

David A. Welch is University Research Chair and Professor of Political Science at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, and teaches at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. His most recent book is Security: A Philosophical Investigation (Cambridge University Press, 2022). His 2005 book Painful Choices: A Theory of Foreign Policy Change (Princeton University Press) was the inaugural winner of the International Studies Association ISSS Book Award for the best book published in 2005 or 2006, and his 1993 book Justice and the Genesis of War (Cambridge University Press) was the winner of the 1994 Edgar S. Furniss Award for an Outstanding Contribution to National Security Studies. He is co-author of Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation, 10th ed. (Pearson Longman), with Joseph S. Nye, Jr. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1990. He is currently co-editor of the Cambridge University Press journal, International Theory. 

Selected awards

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  • Outstanding Performance Award, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ (2023; 2010). 
  • Inaugural International Studies Association ISSS Best Book Award for 2005 and 2006; for Painful Choices: A Theory of Foreign Policy Change (2008). 
  • 1994 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award for an Outstanding Contribution to National Security Studies, Mershon Centre, Ohio State University; for Justice and the Genesis of War (1996). 

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  • American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society Award for Outstanding Teaching in Political Science (2008). 
  • Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Toronto (2008). 

Selected publications

  • Security: A Philosophical Investigation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 
  • Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation: An Introduction to Theory and History (with Joseph S. Nye, Jr.) New York: Pearson Longman. 10th ed. rev. (Revel), 2020; 10th ed., 2016; 9th ed., 2012; 8th ed., 2010. 
  • The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History (with Don Munton). New York: Oxford University Press. 2nd ed., 2011; 1st ed, 2007. 
  • Virtual JFK: Vietnam if Kennedy had Lived (with James G. Blight and janet M. Lang). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. 
  • Painful Choices: A Theory of Foreign Policy Change. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.ÌýÌý
  • Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the Soviet Collapse (with James G. Blight and Bruce J. Allyn.) New York: Pantheon Books, 1993; 2nd edition, revised and expanded, Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 
  • Justice and the Genesis of War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 
  • On the Brink: Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis (with James G. Blight). New York: Hill & Wang, 1989; 2nd edition, revised and expanded, Noonday Press, 1990. 

Current projects

  • Why Leaders Fail to Learn from History (And How they may Succeed). With Robert Patman, University of Otago. 

Courses taught

  • GGOV 660/PSCI 609/SUSM 660 - Public International Law 
  • GGOV 700 - Globalization & Global Governance 

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