Teaching Experience

Most simply, I teach international political economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. More richly, I have spent thousands of hours teaching at the undergraduate and post-graduate (MSc and PhD) levels, across a range of topics within international relations and cognate fields, at several institutions around the world.

In recent years, most of my teaching has been around the core master’s level course in international political economy. But, within a given year, I might teach everything from introductory international relations (to first-year undergraduates) to bespoke historical methods training workshops (for PhD students and post-doctoral fellows)–and much in between. I have regularly designed and taught full courses such as “American Foreign Policy,” “International Law,” and several different versions of a course on global economic governance.

My favourite course is one I designed from the ground up entitled, “Great Thinkers and Pivotal Leaders: Shaping the Global Order.” This course includes 36 hours of (polished and exciting!) lectures and 18 hours of seminars. I regularly offer a version of this through the LSE Summer School. This means that it is available to non-LSE students who enrol in that programme. The syllabus is available here.

The following is a detailed, although probably not comprehensive, account of my teaching experience.

Essential Teaching (at the LSE)

Undergraduate

IR354. Governing International Political Economy: Lessons from the Past for the Future

  • Taught 4 times (2015-2018)
  • 15 students enrolled
  • I designed and convened this course. I taught all of the classes and gave all 10 lectures.
  • Much of this material is related to my specialist area of research

Master’s level

IR450. International Political Economy

  • Postgraduate. Taught 6 times (2013-2015; 2017-2018; 2020-2021).
  • Average of 85 students enrolled
  • 2013-15: I gave 5-6 of the 20 lectures
  • 2017: I gave 5 of the 10 lectures
  • 2018; 2020: I convened the course and gave all 10 lectures
  • I taught 1 or more seminars

IR454. Governing International Political Economy: Lessons from the Past for the Future

  • Taught 4 times (2015-2018)
  • Average of 45 postgraduate students enrolled
  • I designed and convened this course. I taught all of the seminars and gave all 10 lectures.
  • Much of this material is related to my specialist area of research

IR429. Economic Diplomacy

  • Postgraduate. Full Unit. Taught 2 times (2013-2014).
  • 60 students enrolled
  • I taught 30 students across two seminars
  • I also gave one of the lectures and helped to run the course simulation
  • This course is afield from my specialist area of research

IR410. International Politics

  • Postgraduate. Gave one lecture twice (2017-2018).
  • This course surveys canonical works in International Relations
  • I lectured on Keohane’s After Hegemony

Teaching: Doctoral-level

IR501. Methods in International Relations

  • PhD Student Seminar. Taught 1 seminar 4 times (2016-18; 2020).
  • I led a discussion of “historical methods” for scholars in IR

IR555. Workshop in International Political Economy

  • Departmental cluster workshop
  • Co-coordinator (2017-18; 2020-21)

Principal supervisor (with Peter Trubowitz) for 3 students

  • Oksana Levkovych
  • Armando Marozzi
  • Aisenour Bitsen

Additional Undegraduate Teaching (through LSE)

LSE Summer School: IR100. “Great Thinkers and Pivotal Leaders: Shaping the Global Order.”

  • Taught 4 times (2016-2019)
  • Average of 40+ students enrolled
  • I designed and convened this course. I gave all 36 hours of lectures. I oversaw two TAs who led the seminars.
  • 10% of this material is related to my specialist area of research

Universidad Europea de Madrid: “Great Thinkers and Pivotal Leaders: Shaping the Global Order.”

  • Taught 3 times (2017-2018; 2020)
  • Average of 15 students enrolled
  • This is a truncated version of my Summer School course offered to visiting students hosted by LSE Enterprise and LSE IDEAS
  • I gave all 15 hours of lectures and led all 15 hours of seminars
  • Designed and convened four 90-minute bespoke simulations(2021)

University of London International Programme: “International Political Economy.”

  • 400+ undergraduates enrolled world-wide
  • Examiner: 2014-15; 2015-16; 2016-17
  • Course Convener and Chief Examiner: 2017-18; 2018-19; 2019-20; 2020-2021

Additional Undergraduate Teaching (External)

Singapore Institute of Management: Revision sessions for University of London exams

  • Set mock exam. Marked mock exams. Prepared and delivered 4-6 lectures for each (undergraduate) module.
  • “International Political Economy” (2016-2021).
  • “International Organisations” (2017-2021).
  • “International Political Theory” (2017-2021).

Korea University (International Summer Campus, Seoul)

  • Designed and convened two full-semester courses
  • “Introduction to International Relations” (2015-2018)
  • “American Foreign Policy” (2015-2018)
  • Average of 20 undergraduate students, each

Syracuse University (in London)

  • Designed and convened a full-semester course
  • “America: A Foreign Perspective” (2016)
  • 15 undergraduate students

Undergraduate Teaching (at Middlebury College)

International Politics (x4: 2008-2012)

  • Designed and delivered course
  • 24 hours of lectures & 18 hours of seminar
  • 45 students

International Political Economy (x4: 2009-2012)

  • Designed and delivered course
  • 24 hours of lectures & 18 hours of seminar
  • 45 students

International Order in the 20th Century (x4: 2008-2012)

  • Designed and delivered course
  • 36 hours of seminar
  • 15 students

International Law (x4: 2009-2012)

  • Designed and delivered course
  • 36 hours of seminar
  • 20 students

Globalization: Then & Now (x2: 2010; 2012)

  • Designed and delivered course
  • 20 hours of seminar
  • 20 students