Cameron Thies

Courses: Case Study Analysis I & II (2023, 2021, 2020), Case Study Analysis (2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014)

Cameron G. Thies is Dean of James Madison College and MSU Foundation Professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska and earned his PhD at Arizona State University. He is founding co-editor of Political Science Research and Methods, former Vice President of the International Studies Association, and former President of the foreign policy analysis sections of both the International Studies Association and the American Political Science Association. His research focuses on state building in the developing world, the political economy of civil and interstate conflict, international relations theory, and research methods. He is the author of The United States, Israel, and the Search for International Order: Socializing States (2013), co-author of Intra-Industry Trade: Cooperation and Conflict in the Global Political Economy (2015), and has published widely in such leading academic journals as the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and International Studies Quarterly. He has previously taught at Concordia University's Workshops on Social Science Research and the IPSA Summer School in St. Petersburg.