Co-Director

Susan Hyde

IIS Faculty Co-Director, Professor
Political Science
Center on the Politics of Development

Susan D. Hyde is the Kernan Robson Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where she co-directs the Institute of International Studies and was Chair of the Department of Political Science (AY 2021–2024). She studies international influences on the domestic politics of sovereign states, with a focus on elections, election fraud, democratic backsliding, and democracy promotion.

With Nikolay Marinov and many students, she compiles the...

Daniel J. Sargent

IIS Faculty Co-Director, Associate Professor
History
Goldman School of Public Policy
Daniel J. Sargent is associate professor at the University of California, where he is jointly appointed in the Department of History and the Goldman School of Public Policy. He is a historian who specializes in U.S. foreign policy and the history of international relations. His research has explored how states and decision makers adapt to long-term changes in their international environments, including the historical advance of globalization. He is presently interested in how the United States has strived, over the long arc of its history, to constitute and sustain international order,...