ROBERT T. KUDRLE is professor of public affairs and planning, associate dean for
research, and the director of the Orville and Jane Freeman Center in International
Economic Policy at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. His research interests
concentrate on industrial organization, public policy toward business and international
economic policy. Much of his recent research has examined economic relations among
industrial countries. He has served as a consultant and expert witness for the Antitrust
Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and as a consultant to the Canadian
Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs; the UN Center on Transnational
Corporations, the Overseas Private Investment Corporations; the Agency for
International Development; and the Urban Institute. Dr. Kudrle is past co-editor of
the International Studies Quarterly, and serves on its editorial board. He is also a member
of the editorial board of The International Political Economy Yearbook and the Minnesota
Journal of Global Trade. He is an alumnus of Salzburg Seminar Session 225, The Management
of Conflict in International Relations, in 1983. A Rhodes scholar, Dr. Kudrle holds an
M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics
from Harvard University.