Etel Solingen

Biography

Etel Solingen, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor and Thomas T. and Elizabeth C. Tierney Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. She was President of the International Studies Association and was awarded the William and Katherine Estes Award from the US National Academy of Sciences; the Richard Holbrooke Prize from the American Academy in Berlin; the Susan Strange Professorship at the London School of Economics; the Distinguished Scholar award in International Security, a Lifetime Achievement Award from Stockholm University, a MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Award on Peace and International Cooperation; a Social Science Research Council-Mac Arthur Foundation Fellowship on Peace and Security; a Japan Foundation/SSRC Abe Fellowship; a Center for Global Partnership/Japan Foundation fellowship; an APSA Excellence in Mentorship Award, and a Distinguished Teaching Award from UC Irvine's Academic Senate, among others.

Solingen’s book Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East (Princeton UP) received the American Political Science Association’s Woodrow Wilson Award (now Tate-Ostrom Award) for best book in political science and the ISA’s Jervis and Schroeder Award for best book in International History and Politics. Other books include (single-authored) Regional Orders at Century's Dawn (Princeton UP); Industrial Policy, Technology, and International Bargaining (Stanford UP), Comparative Regionalism (Routledge) and (edited) Geopolitics, Supply Chains and International Relations of East Asia (Cambridge UP); Sanctions, Statecraft, and Nuclear Proliferation (Cambridge UP); and Scientists and the State: Domestic Structures and the International Context (U. of Michigan). She is Chief Editor of the Cambridge University Press Elements Series on Globalization and Supply Chains. Her articles appeared in the APSR, International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Politics, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Global Governance, International Studies Review, Journal of Democracy, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Global Value Chain Development Report 2021, and New Political Economy, among others.

Solingen’s research received funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, United States Institute of Peace, Sloan Foundation, Columbia Foundation, SSRC-MacArthur Foundation, American Academy in Berlin, University of California's Office of the President Laboratory Fees Research Program, Univ. of California's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, and the Univ. of California's Pacific Rim grants, among others. She served as Chair of the Steering Committee of the University of California's systemwide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, President of ISA's International Political Economy Section, President of APSA's International History and Politics Section, member of the APSA's Presidential Taskforce on U.S. Standing in World Affairs, and editorial boards of the APSR, International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, and International Interactions, among others. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Education

• Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1987
• M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1981
• B.A. in Political Science and History, Hebrew University/Jerusalem, 1974

Distinctions

• Lifetime Achievement Award from Stockholm University, EMIC, 2025
• Berlin Prize, Richard Holbrooke Fellow, American Academy in Berlin, 2022
• Susan Strange Professorship, London School of Economics, 2020
• Distinguished Scholar in International Security, International Studies Association, International Security Studies Section, 2019
• William and Katherine Estes Award, National Academy of Sciences, 2018
• Seventh Annual Kenneth N. Waltz Lecture in International Relations, Saltzman Institute, Columbia University, 2016
• Lim Chong Yah Professorship, National University of Singapore, 2014
• Celia Moh Professorial Chair, Singapore Management University, 2013
• President, International Studies Association, 2012-2013
• President, International History and Politics Section, American Political Science Association, 2010-2011
• Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, American Political Science Association, 2008
• Robert Jervis and Paul Schroeder Award, American Political Science Association, 2008
• President, International Political Economy Section, International Studies Association, 1998-1999
• Silverman Award, UCI Ethics Center, 2019
• Excellence in Mentorship Award, Women's Caucus for Political Science, American Political Science Association, 2002
• Distinguished Teaching Award for Assistant Professors, UCI Academic Senate, 1995