David joined
the faculty in 1994. He was an undergraduate at Valparaiso University
and did his graduate work at the Graduate School of International
Studies, University of Denver. His research interests include
the political and social theory of international relations, the
history of political economic thought and contemporary international
political economy, and democratic theory in a global age. His
recent book (with Naeem Inayatullah), International Relations
and the Problem of Difference (Routledge, 2004), explores the
historical sources of the failure of international relations as
a discipline to seriously confront issues of difference and the
critical ethical resources attention to difference potentially
uncovers. Naeem and David have started a manuscript on International
Political Economy and the Primitive, a study of the comparative
ethnology that shaped the Scottish Enlightenment’s, particularly
Adam Smith’s, notions of development or progress, order,
civil society and social/ethical pluralism, and poverty and inequality
and the implications for framing and reframing international political
economy. The first installment of this project, “Straining
in the Guard Tower: Adam Smith and the Temporal Walls of Capitalism,”
will appear in Beate Jahn, ed., IR and the Classics. He is also
doing work on pedagogy and democratic theory. David teaches Foundations
of International Politics, Development Politics, Work, Wealth
and Well Being: The Political Economy Tradition, Global Political
Economy, and the Department’s Research Seminar.
For additional information,
see a copy of David Blaney's vitae.
