Stephen Nelson
College Fellow
PhD, Cornell University
Stephen Nelson’s main research and teaching interests lie in the study of international political economy. His PhD is from the Government Department at Cornell University, where he was the recipient of the Kahin Prize as well as several major teaching awards. He is currently turning his dissertation, entitled Creating Credibility: the International Monetary Fund and the Neoliberal Revolution in the Developing World, into a book manuscript. Aside from his work on the IMF, he has ongoing research projects on the consequences of compliance with international law, the political economy of foreign direct investment in low- and middle-income countries, the determinants of ideological moderation by left parties in wealthy democracies, and the contributions of ideational perspectives to the study of international political economy.