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Location: Howley 301
Phone: 401-865-2773
Fax: 401-865-1222
E-Mail: dougblum@providence.edu
Douglas W. Blum
Professor

Education
Ph.D. Columbia University
MA Washington University
BA Washington University

Summary Biography
      Douglas W Blum is Professor of Political Science at Providence College, and Adjunct Professor of International Studies at the Thomas J. Watson, Jr., Institute of International Studies at Brown University. His general research interests center on cultural globalization, as well as the connections between globalization, identity, and security in the former USSR. He has published and spoken on a number of related themes, including Russian and American policy, foreign policy, and energy security in the Caspian basin. His most recent works include a book entitled National Identity and Globalization: Youth, State and Society in Post-Soviet Eurasia (Cambridge University Press, 2007); as well as an edited volume entitled Russia and Globalization: Identity, Security and Society in an Era of Change (The Johns Hopkins University Press and Woodrow Wilson International Center, forthcoming). He received his Ph. D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 1991.



Fall 2007 Courses

Course # Section Title Time Comments
PSC 207 001 International Relations MWF 12:30-1:20 IR field
PSC 207 002 International Relations MWF 1:30-2:20 IR field
PSC 324 001 Government & Politics of Russia & the Former Soviet Union
MWF 8:30-9:20 Comparative field