Faculty Affiliate Dr. Kate Weaver
Dr. Kate Weaver is Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Co-Director of IPD. Her research is focuses on international development and global governance. Kate conducts extensive qualitative fieldwork all over the world and publishes widely on the political economy of aid and the reform of international development institutions. She is a lead researcher in Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS) program, in which she oversees the development of innovative methods to track and geomap international climate change and food security assistance for developing countries. She also studies the diffusion and evaluates the impact of open aid policies and practices. Kate is also a Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Law & Security.
See Kate's faculty page here and CV here.
Email: ceweaver@austin.utexas.edu
Selected Recent Publications:
Recent Syllabi:
Next Generation Scholars Program Fall 2015
Policy Research Project 2015-2016 (for USAID): "Aid Transparency - Cui Bono?" (Syllabus and Report available upon request via Google Docs)
PA388K: International Development
PA388K: Evaluation Methods for International Development and Humanitarian Assistance
PA388K: Global Economic Governance
See Kate's faculty page here and CV here.
Email: ceweaver@austin.utexas.edu
Selected Recent Publications:
- Catherine Weaver. 2008. Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- Catherine Weaver and Nicola Phillips, eds. 2010. International Political Economy and the Transatlantic Divide. London, UK: Routledge Press.
- Manuella Moschella and Catherine Weaver, eds. 2014. Handbook of Global Economic Governance. London, UK: Routledge Press.
- Catherine Weaver. 2015. “The Rise of Chinese Development Finance: Continuity or Change in the Global Governance of Development?” Ethics & International Affairs, Winter 2015.
- Catherine Weaver and Manuella Moschella. Accepted and forthcoming 2016. “Bounded Reform in the IMF and World Bank,” in Orfeo Fioretos, ed.International Politics and Institutions in Time. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Stephen Nelson and Catherine Weaver. Accepted and forthcoming 2016. “The Cultures of International Organizations,” in Jacob Cogan, Ian Hurd and Ian Johnstone, eds. The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
- *Catherine Weaver and Christian Peratsakis. 2014. “Engineering Policy Norm Implementation: The World Bank’s Transparency Transformation,” in Alexander Betts and Phil Orchard, eds. Implementation and World Politics: How International Norms Change Practice. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
- Manuella Moschella and Catherine Weaver. 2014. “Global Economic Governance: Players, Power and Paradigms,” in Moschelle and Weaver, eds. Handbook of Global Economic Governance: Players, Power and Paradigms. London: Routledge, 1-22.
Recent Syllabi:
Next Generation Scholars Program Fall 2015
Policy Research Project 2015-2016 (for USAID): "Aid Transparency - Cui Bono?" (Syllabus and Report available upon request via Google Docs)
PA388K: International Development
PA388K: Evaluation Methods for International Development and Humanitarian Assistance
PA388K: Global Economic Governance
