Cynthia Roberts Author

Cynthia Roberts is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hunter College, CUNY; Senior Associate at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the BRICS, international power shifts, and the liberal world order, and the strategies of major powers. She received her M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Columbia University and Certificate from the Harriman Institute. Leslie Elliott Armijo teaches Political Economy and Development at the School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University, and has held Visiting Professorships in Brazil (2015) and Germany (2011). She investigates the politics of national and international economic policymaking, and their relationship to democratic consolidation, especially in Brazil, India, and large emerging economies. She holds degrees from Cornell University (B.A.) and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D). Saori N. Katada is Associate Professor at School of International Relations at University of Southern California. Katada is the author of several books and numerous articles on trade, financial and monetary cooperation in East Asia and foreign aid. She has her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Political Science) and B.A. from Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo). Before joining USC, she worked at the World Bank (Washington D.C.), and the UNDP (Mexico City).