Professor

Office:  1703 Hunter West Bldg
Email:  robert.jenkins@hunter.cuny.edu
Office Hours:  By appointment.

Recently Published:

Peacebuilding: From Concept to Commission (Routledge, 2013)

Through an analysis of international efforts to rebuild states that have collapsed into civil war, this book traces the emergence of the idea of peacebuilding in official and academic discourse; examines the politics surrounding the redesign of the UN's peacebuilding architecture in 2005 (including the creation of the Peacebuilding Commission); and critically assesses the Commission's performance during its first six years in existence. 

'Advancing the UN's Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Political Challenges and Opportunities,' Policy Brief (Oslo: Norwegian Peacebuilding Research Centre, March 2013)

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

• Politics and political economy of India
• International and comparative politics of development
• The UN and post-conflict peacebuilding

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COURSES

• PolSc 360 - Democracy and Development in a Globalizing World
• PolSc 356 - India's Democratic Experiment
• PolSc 372.43 - Post-War Peacebuilding and State-Building
• PolSc 250 - Comparing Countries: Foundations of Comparative Political Analysis
• PolSc 100 - Introduction to Politics: Democracy, Anarchy, and the State

HIGHER EDUCATION

• B.A., Harvard University
• D.Phil., Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex (UK)

CURRENT AFFILIATIONS

• Faculty Associate, Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, CUNY
• Senior Fellow, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, CUNY
• Editorial board member: Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics; Jindal Journal of Public Policy; Studies in Indian Politics

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

• Visiting Professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2013)
• Senior Consultant, United Nations Secretariat, Peacebuilding Support Office (2010). Lead author, Report of the Secretary General on Women’s Participation in Peacebuilding (S/2010/466)
• Visiting Scholar, Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania (2007-08)
• Professor of Political Science, University of London (1995-2008)
• Fellow, Dorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library (2005-06)
• Visiting Professor, The Poverty Research Unit, School of African & Asian Studies, University of Sussex (2002-03)
• Visiting Fellow, Development Policy Research Centre, University of Cape Town (1997)
• Visiting Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, India (1993-94)

PUBLICATIONS

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CURRICULUM VITAE

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