Dr. Allan D. Cooper
Professor of Political Science
Department
of History & Political Science
Dr. Cooper's area of research is in international politics with a special
interest in studying countries and regions undergoing fundamental
transformations in their political identities. He is the author of U.S.
Economic Interests and Political Power in Namibia (1982), Allies in Apartheid:
Western Capitalism in Occupied Namibia (1988), The Occupation of Namibia:
Afrikanerdom's Attack on the British Empire (1991), and Ovambo Politics in the
Twentieth Century (2001). He also has authored more than a dozen articles in
academic journals. He has done
research in South Africa, Namibia, Morocco, Tunisia, Cuba, China, Taiwan, UK,
Switzerland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Australia, India and Kashmir. He was a
Fulbright lecturer at Kazan State University in Russia during 2002. He has received three Fulbright-Hays
awards, as well as research grants from the American Political Science
Association, the American Council for Learned Societies, and the National
Endowment for the Humanities. He
has participated in research grants at Yale University, Duke University, the
University of Florida, Brown University, University of Namibia, and University
of Cape Town.
Currently he is completing a
manuscript on The Geography of Genocide that offers a new etiology on this
crime against humanity.
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PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Education:
- Ph.D., Atlanta University 1981
- M.A., University of Wisconsin, 1976
- B.A., University of Oklahoma, 1974
COURSE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- International Politics
- African Politics
- Comparative Politics
- Mideast Politics
- American Foreign Policy
- World Geography & Human Society
- International Law
- Politics of Genocide (pdf)
- Terrorism
- Russian Politics
- East Asian Politics
- The Presidency
- Model United Nations
PROGRAM RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Political Science (International Politics)
International
Studies major