Kirsten Rodine Hardy

Kirsten Rodine-Hardy teaches international political economy, comparative politics, and international relations for undergraduates and graduates. She has lived and worked in France, the Czech Republic (1990-1994), Washington, D.C., Berkeley, CA, and Burkina Faso, West Africa. She speaks French, Czech, and some Swedish, Slovak, German, and Spanish. She studies global business regulation – how states and markets interact in the global political economy in sectors with new technology, that affect democracy, the environment, and security. Her underlying analytical framework focuses on the role of international organizations both public and private in the diffusion of regulation and governance in telecommunications and nanotechnology, among other sectors. As a political scientist, she shows how political and economic actors affect global markets, how politics plays a key role in creating and implementing economic reforms, and how economic policies affect politics and people’s lives. Her latest book, published with Cambridge University Press, analyzes Global Markets and Government Regulation in Telecommunications. Her second project analyzes the political and economic determinants of regulation and governance in nanotechnology, with significant impact on global environmental politics and international security. She employs mixed-method analysis, quantitative studies and structured focused case comparisons, to support her underlying research questions and speak to larger questions of theory and policy. She relies upon an amazing research team of Northeastern undergrads and grads, who support her research and conduct their own original research that they have presented at the Northeastern’s Research, Innovation, and Scholarship Exp (RISE). She has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense.

Professor Rodine-Hardy also sings in a choir at Christ Church Cambridge and loves exploring the outdoors with her two kids.