University of Southern California
School of International Relations

Dr. Todd Sandler

Robert & Katherine Dockson Chair in International Relations & Economics
School of International Relations
Von KleinSmid Center, 314
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0043
(213) 740-9695
tsandler@usc.edu
Personal Web page: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~tsandler/index.html

 

Professor Sandler applies theoretical and empirical models of economics to the study of international political economy, defense, environmental issues, and public finance. He is particularly interested in the application of game theory (noncooperative and cooperative) and microeconomics to issues in international relations.

HONORS, GRANTS

  • Co-recipient National Academy of Sciences Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War
  • Principal Investigator, Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affair, EGDI grant, “Regional Public Goods,” $40,000, April 2001 to February 2002.
  • Honorary Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of York, October 1999-September 2002, October 2003 to September 2006.
  • Annual Award for Excellence in Honors Teaching for 1998. One award given per year for best honors teacher at Iowa State University.
  • NATO-EAPC Research Fellowship, 1998-2000.
  • Quality of Communication Award, American Agricultural Economics Association 1998 for book, Global Challenges: An Approach to Environmental, Political, and Economic Problems, first prize.
  • Quality of Communication Award, Honorable Mention, American Agricultural Economics Association, 1997 for co-authored book, The Theory of Externalities, Public Goods, and Club Goods, 2nd Edition.
  • Visiting Distinguished Scholar, University of Newcastle, Australia, May-June 1996.
  • Quality of Research Excellence Award, American Agricultural Economics Association, August 1995 for co-authored paper, “Agricultural Research Expenditures in the U.S.: A Public Goods Perspective,” first prize.
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences College Outstanding Teacher at the Introductory Level, 1995.
  • Visiting Fellow, Federalism Research Centre, Australian National University, May-July 1994.
  • Senior Fellow, Institute for Policy Reform, Washington, DC, 1994.
  • Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation grant SBR92-22953 “Alternative Theories and Tests of Alliance Behavior, Environmental Pacts, and Global Collective Action,” $85,680, June 1, 1993 to November 30, 1994.
  • Senior Fellow, Institute for Policy Reform, Washington, DC, 1993.
  • Senior Fellow, Institute for Policy Reform, Washington, DC, 1992.
  • Senior Fellow, Institute for Policy Reform, Washington, DC, 1990-91.
  • Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation grant SES89-07646 “The Economics of Terrorist Negotiations, The Effectiveness of Terrorist-Thwarting Policies, and Related Issues,” $97,711, July 1, 1989 to June 30, 1991.
  • Australian National University Fellowship, 1981.
  • NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Sciences (NSF) June 1977 to June 1978.
  • National Defense Education Association Fellowship (Title IV) Texas A & M, September 1968.
  • State University of New York at Binghamton Fellowship, September 1969 to June 1970.

BOOKS

  • Global Collective Action (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2004.)
  • Economics of Conflict (edited with Keith Hartley) Edward Elgar Critical Writings in Economics, 3 Volumes (Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, 2003), forthcoming.
  • Regional Public Goods: Typologies, Provision, Financing, and Development Assistance (with Daniel G. Arce M.) (Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, 2002), 102 pages.
  • Economic Concepts for the Social Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, September 2001), 298 pages.
  • Economics of Defence (edited with Keith Hartley) Edward Elgar Critical Writings in Economics, 3 Volumes (Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, 2001), 1573 pages.
  • The Future of Development Assistance: Common Pools and International Public Goods (with Ravi Kanbur and Kevin Morrison) Overseas Development Council Policy Essay No. 25 (Washington, DC: Overseas Development Council, 1999), 106 pages.
  • The Political Economy of NATO: Past, Present, and Into the 21st Century (with Keith Hartley), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 292 pages.
  • Global Challenges: An Approach to Environmental, Political, and Economic Problems (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 234 pages.
  • The Theory of Externalities, Public Goods, and Club Goods, Second Edition (with Richard Cornes), (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 590 pages.
  • Handbook of Defense Economics (co-edited book with Keith Hartley) (Amsterdam: North Holland, 1995), 606 pages.
  • The Economics of Defense (with Keith Hartley), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 400 pages. Republished in Japanese, Shoichi Fukaya translator (Tokyo: Nihon Hyoronsha Publishing Company, 1999).
  • Collective Action: Theory and Applications (Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1992), 237 pages.
  • The Economics of Defence Spending: An International Survey (edited with Keith Hartley), (London: Routledge, 1990), 285 pages.
  • International Terrorism in the 1980s: A Chronology of Events, Volume 2, 1984-1987 (with Edward Mickolus and Jean Murdock), (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1989), 776 pages.
  • International Terrorism in the 1980s: A Chronology of Events, Volume 1, 1980-1983 (with Edward Mickolus and Jean Murdock), (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1988), 541 pages.
  • The Theory of Externalities, Public Goods, and Club Goods (with Richard Cornes), (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 303 pages.
  • The Theory and Structures of International Political Economy (edited book), (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1980), 280 pages.
  • The Political Economy of Public Goods and International Cooperation, (with William Loehr and Jon Cauley), Monograph Series in World Affairs, Vol. 15, Book 3, University of Denver, Graduate School of International Studies, 1978, 98 pages.
  • Public Goods and Public Policy (edited with William Loehr), (Beverly Hills, California: Sage Publications, Inc., 1978), 240 pages.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

  • “Regional Public Goods: Demand and Institutions,” in Antoni Estevadeoral, Brian Frantz, and Tam Nguyen (eds.) Regional Responses to Globalization: Regional Public Goods and Development Assistance (Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank and Asian Development Bank, 2004), forthcoming.
  • “What Do We Know about the Substitution Effect in Transnational Terrorism,” in Andrew Silke and G. Ilardi (eds.), Researching Terrorism: Trends, Achievements, Failures (Ilford, UK: Frank Cass, 2004) forthcoming.
  • “Global Challenges and the Need for Supranational Infrastructure,” in Omar Azfar and Charles Cadwell (eds.), Market-Augmenting Government: The Institutional Foundations for Prosperity (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2003), pp. 269-294.
  • “Terrorism and Game Theory,” An Interview, Swiss Military Review, No. 12, December 2002, pp. 4-5.
  • “Nash, Game Theory, and Global Challenges,” in Constantina Kottaridi and Gregorios Siourounis (eds.), Game Theory: A Festschrift in Honor of John F. Nash Jr. (published in Greek, Athens: Eurasia Publications, 2002), pp. 148-152.
  • “What Economics Tells Us to Prevent Terrorism,” An Interview in Challenge, Vol. 45, No. 3, May/June 2002, pp. 5-12.
  • “Understanding Global Public Goods,” OECD Observer, No. 228, September 2001, pp. 15-17
  • “Financing Global and International Public Goods,” in Christopher D. Gerrard, Marco Ferroni, and Ashoka Mody (eds.), Global Public Policies and Programs: Implications for Financing and Evaluation (Washington, DC: Operations Evaluation Department, World Bank, 2001), pp. 183-192.
  • “On Partnerships, CDF, and Collective Action,” posted at World Bank website: http://www.worldbank.org/html/oed/topics/cdfproceedings/pdfs/annex_sandler.pdf.
  • “Challenges to NATO in the Mediterranean and Beyond,” in Jurgen Brauer and Keith Hartley (eds.), The Economics of Regional Security: NATO, The Mediterranean, and Southern Africa (Reading, UK: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000), pp. 71-92.
  • “A Radical Approach to Development Assistance,” (with Ravi Kanbur and Kevin M. Morrison), Development Outreach, Vol. 1, No. 2, Fall 1999, pp. 15-17.
  • “Os Desafios à NATO na região do Mediterrâneo e em outras Áreas,” Economia & Defesa, Vol. 90, No. 2, Summer 1999, pp. 35-62.
  • “The Future of NATO,” Economic Affairs, Vol. 17(4), December 1997, pp. 15-21.
  • “Terrorism: Theory and Applications,” (with Walter Enders) in Keith Hartley and Todd Sandler (eds.), Handbook of Defense Economics (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1995), pp. 213-249.
  • “On Terrorism, Guerrilla Warfare, and Insurrections,” Defence Economics, Vol. 3, No. 4, November 1992, pp. 259-261.
  • “Swedish Military Expenditures and Armed Neutrality,” (with James Murdoch), in Keith Hartley and Todd Sandler (eds.), The Economics of Defence Spending: An International Survey (London: Routledge, 1990), pp. 148-176.
  • “Britain, Europe, and the Atlantic Alliance,” Institute of Economic Affairs, IEA Inquiry Paper No. 10, London: IEA, September 1989.
  • “NATO Burden Sharing: Rules or Reality?” in the International Economic Association 1985 Volume entitled, Peace, Defence and Economic Analysis (London: Macmillan, 1987), pp. 363-383.
  • “Economic Methods and the Study of Terrorism,” (with Scott Atkinson et al.), in Paul Wilkinson and A. W. Stewart (eds.), Contemporary Research on Terrorism (Aberdeen, Scotland: Aberdeen University Press, 1987), pp. 376-389.
  • “Defense Burdens and Prospects for the Northern European Allies,” (with James Murdoch), in David Denoon (ed.), Constraints on Strategy: The Economics of Western Security (New York: Pergamon-Brassey, 1986), pp. 59-113.
  • “Outer Space: The New Market Frontier,” (with William Schulze), Economic Affairs, Vol. 5, No. 4, July-September 1985, pp. 6-10.
  • “Explorations in the Economics of Outer Space,” (with William Schulze), in Todd Sandler (ed.), The Theory and Structures of International Political Economy (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1980), pp. 175-195.
  • “On the Public Character of Goods,” (with William Loehr), in W. Loehr and T. Sandler (eds.), Public Goods and Public Policy (Beverly Hills, California: Sage Publications, Inc., 1978), pp. 11-37.
  • “Domestic and International Policy Implications of the Inflation-Unemployment Trade-Off,” (with Phil Graves), Akron Business and Economic Review, Volume 5, No. 2, Summer 1974, pp. 9-14.
  • “The Demand for International Reserves: A Respecification,” (with Shigeo Minabe), The Hikone Ronso, No. 29, August 1973, pp. 1-11.
  • “Dollars, Deficits, and Devaluation,” (with Elmer Gooding), Arizona Business, Volume 20, No. 5, May 1973, pp. 10-16.
  • “International Monetary Reforms,” Arizona Business, Volume 20, No. 1, January 1973, pp. 17-24.
  • “The Dynamic Price Expectation Effect of Devaluation,” (with Nobuo Minabe), Osaka City University Economic Review, January 1973, No. 8, pp. 13-23.
  • “Devaluation: An Analysis and Some Timely Questions,” Arizona Business, Volume 19, No. 2, February 1972, pp. 18-24.

DATA SET


International Terrorism: Attributes of Terrorist Events 1978-1987 (ITERATE 3) (with Edward Mickolus, Jean Murdock, and Peter Fleming). Distributed by Vinyard Software, Inc., Falls Church, VA, 1989. Update 1988-1989 (ITERATE 4) Vinyard Software, Inc., Falls Church, VA, 1990.

EDITING AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

  • Co-Editor of special issue of Defence and Peace Economics on “Internal and External Threats: Defence Economics Analysis,” Vol. 14, No. 6, forthcoming 2003.
  • Co-Editor of special issue of Defence and Peace Economics on “Economic Analysis of Civil Wars,” Vol. 13, No. 6, December 2002.
  • Editorial Board, Terrorism and Political Violence, January 2004 on.
  • Editorial Board, Nação e Defesa, March 2002 on
  • Editorial Board, European Review of Economics and Finance, January 2002 on
  • Editorial Board, Public Finance Review, July 2000 on.
  • Editorial Board, Fiscal Studies, June 2000 on.
  • Guest Editor of special issue of Journal of Conflict Resolution on “Economic Analysis of Conflict,” Vol. 44, No. 6, December 2000.
  • Co-Editor of Tenth Anniversary issue of Defence and Peace Economics, Vol. 11, No. 1, February 2000.
  • Associate Editor, Bulletin of Economic Research, February 2000 on.
  • Advisory Board on book series, Institutional Analysis, University of Michigan Press, edited by Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, 1999 on.
  • Editorial Board, International Studies Quarterly, January 1999-December 2003, January 2004-December 2007.
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Public Economic Theory, May 1997 on.
  • Editorial Board, Social Science Quarterly, March 1996 on.
  • Editorial Board, Defence and Peace Economics, January 1995 on. Advising Editor from January 1999 on.
  • Editorial Council on Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, January 1986 to December 1987, reappointed for January 1992-December 1993, reappointed for January 1994 December 1995, January-December 1996, January-December 1997, January-December 1998, January-December 1999, January-December 2000, January- December 2001.
  • Editorial Board on Monograph Series in World Affairs, University of Denver, Graduate School of International Studies, 1979 on.
  • Editor of Defence Economics, September 1988-December 1994. (First issue appeared January 1990).
  • Editor of special issue of Defence Economics on Terrorism, Guerrilla Warfare, and Insurrections, Vol. 3, No. 4, November 1992.
  • Executive Board, International Defense Economics Association, 1990 on.
  • Executive Board Member of Economists Allied Against the Arms Race (ECAAR), Israel Section, 1994 on.
  • Associate Editor of Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, January 1988 to January 1990.
  • Advising Board Member for Annual Editions: Violence and Terrorism, Duskin Publishing Group, 1989 on.
  • Editorial Board on Sage Series on Comparative Economy and Public Policy, 1975 to 1978.
  • Associate Editor, Intermountain Economic Review, September 1972 to June 1974.
  • Reviewer for NSF, major economics journals, and major political science journals.
  • Co-editor of Journal of Conflict Resolution for the June 1982 issue.

EDUCATION

  • B.A., (cum laude) State University of New York at Binghamton
  • M.A., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1970 (one semester at Texas A & M)
  • Ph.D. in Economics, State University of New York at Binghamton