ALEXANDRIA FACULTY

Giselle Datz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
gdatz@vt.edu
ACADEMIC BIOGRAPHY
Education
Ph.D. Global Affairs – Rutgers University (2007); M.A. International Relations – The University of Chicago (2001).
Areas of Specialization
International Political Economy/Global Finance
Latin American Comparative Politics
Economic Development
Giselle Datz is Assistant Professor in the Government and International Affairs Program at the School of Public and International Affairs. She specializes in the field of global political economy with research interests in debt restructuring processes, economic policy reform and development, financial crises, and comparative politics (Latin America).
PUBLICATIONS
(Forthcoming). ‘State of Change: Global Turmoil and Government Reinvention,’ Review of Public Administration.
(Forthcoming). ‘What Life after Default? Time Horizons and the Outcome of the Argentine Debt Restructuring Deal,’ Review of International Political Economy.
2008. ‘Governments as Market Players: State Innovation in the Global Economy,’ Journal of International Affairs, 62(1): 35-49.
2007. ‘Adaptable Agendas: Private Creditors and the Politics of Debt in Emerging Markets,’ pp. 82-101 in Justin Robertson (Ed.), Power and Politics after Financial Crises: Rethinking Foreign Opportunism in Emerging Markets. London: Palgrave.
2007. ‘Global-National Interactions and Sovereign Debt Restructuring Outcomes,’ pp. 321-350 in Saskia Sassen (Ed.), Deciphering the Global: Its Scales, Spaces, and Subjects. New York: Routledge.
2004. ‘Reframing Development and Accountability: The Impact of Sovereign Credit Ratings on Policy Making in Developing Countries,’ Third World Quarterly, 25(2): 303-318.