Elizabeth Crump Hanson

Professor
International Relations, International Political Economy, International Communication, and South Asia
 

Dr. Hanson's publications have covered a wide range of subjects in international relations, including the foreign policy beliefs of American businessmen, national policies with respect to foreign direct investment, the role of conferences in international scientific communication, and the media and foreign policy in the U.S. and India.   Her current research focuses on the political economy of the Internet in India and, more broadly,  on the impact of new information and communication technologies on world politics.   She is currently chair of the international communication section of the International Studies Association and previously served as chair of the political communication sections of the American Political Science Association and the International Political Science Association.  She has also served as Vice-President of the International Studies Association.  She has been a Research Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University; and she has received two Fulbright awards to India.

Selected Publications

• Science, Politics, and International Conferences: A Functional Analysis of the Moscow Political Science Congress (with Richard L. Merritt). Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner, 1989.
   
• Multinationals in Contention: Responses at the Governmental and Intergovernmental Levels (with Robert Black and Stephen Blank). New York: The Conference Board, 1978.
   
• Interest and Ideology: The Foreign Policy Beliefs of American Businessmen (with Bruce M. Russett). San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1975).

Journal Publications and Book Chapters:

• "International News After the Cold War: Continuity or Change?" Guest Editor's Introduction to special issue of Political Communication 12, 4 (October-December 1995): 351-355.
   
• "Framing the World News: The Times of India in Changing Times," Political Communication 12, 4 (October-December 1995): 371-393.
   
• "The Global Media System and International Relations." In Kanti Bajpai and H.Sukel, eds., Interpreting World Politics. Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage Publications, 1995.
   
• "Public Opinion and Policy Choices in United States Relations with India." In Sumit Ganguly and Harold Gould, eds., The Hope and the Reality: Indo-U.S. Relations From Roosevelt to Reagan. Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1991.