Professor
Hart has conducted research in international politics,
international political economy, and the politics of high
technology industries. His dissertation at the University of
California at Berkeley concerned applications of mathematical
graph theory to the analysis of structures of power,
cognition, and cooperation-conflict. Several articles based on
this research were published in a volume edited by Robert
Axelrod, Structure of Decision (1976), and in the
Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict
Resolution, International Interactions, and
International Organization. He also applied these
techniques in an analysis of Latin American elites,
published in World Politics.
Professor Hart's research
since the beginning of the 1980s has been on the politics of
international competitiveness in software, semiconductors,
computer displays, and telecommunications. He spent a two-year
leave (1987-89) at the Berkeley Roundtable on the
International Economy, at the University of California,
collaborating with Laura Tyson and Michael Borrus on the
politics of high technology industries. His book, Rival
Capitalists (1992), attempts to explain changes in the
international competitiveness of the steel, auto, and semiconductor industries in five advanced industrial
countries: the United States, Japan, Germany, France, and the
United Kingdom.
In the mid and late 1990s, Professor
Hart collaborated with Aseem Prakash, editing three volumes on
globalization: Globalization and Governance (1999);
Coping with Globalization (2000), and Responding
to Globalization (2000). He also collaborated during this
period with Sangbae Kim on a series of articles dealing with
the resurgence of U.S. international competitiveness. Professor Hart's most recent book is the 6th edition of a major textbook on international political economy, The Politics of International Economic Relations (2003), which he coauthored with Joan Edelman Spero.
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