Ruth Reitan, Ph.D.

(American University)

assistant Professor

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• r.reitan@miami.edu
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Dr. Reitan is Assistant Professor at the University of Miami’s Department of International Studies, where she teaches and researches on international relations theory, globalization processes, transnational social movements, the World Social Forum, and international human rights. She is the author of Global Activism (Routledge 2007) and The Rise and Decline of an Alliance: Cuba and African American Leaders in the 1960s (Michigan State University 1999). She earned her Ph.D. in International Relations from American University’s School of International Service in Washington D.C. in 2006 and her M.A. in International Studies from the University of Miami’s Graduate School of International Studies in 1996.

Publications:

Video

• USFchannel | February 11, 2011
  On February 4, 2011, at University of South Florida Patel Center, worldwide scholars came and spoke about the social movements happening in the Americas. UM Assistant Professor Ruth Reitan answers various questions from USF News Director Vickie Chachere. Video by Jason Cherres.
  
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYwZRx_nTJY

Books

• Reitan, Ruth. Global Activism (London: Routledge, 2007)
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• Reitan, Ruth. The Rise and Decline of an Alliance: Cuba and African American Leaders in the 1960s (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1999).
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Recent articles:

• Reitan, Ruth. 'The Global Anti-War Movement within and beyond the World
  Social Forum.' Globalizations 6, no. 4 (Dec. 2009): 509-23. View PDF
• Reitan, Ruth. 'Coordinated Power in Contemporary Leftist Activism.' in Power
  and Global Activism, Thomas Olesen, ed. London: Routledge, Forthcoming in
  2010. View PDF
• Reitan, Ruth. ‘A Global Civil Society in a World Polity, Or Angels and Nomads against Empire?’ Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations 13, no. 3 (2007): 445-60. View PDF
• Reitan, Ruth. ‘US Native Americans’ Struggle for Survival and Self-Determination, Past and Present.’ Eurac Research (Summer 2008) European Academy (Eurac) Bolzano, Italy, at:
  www.eurac.edu/Focus/indigenous_americas/indigenous_us_native.htm
• Reitan, Ruth. ‘Walden Bello on the Global Anti-War Movement and the World Social Forum, Interview with Ruth Reitan, 29 March 2008.’ News & Notes on Global Democratization (August-September 2008), Network Institute for Global Democratization, Helsinki, Finland. View PDF
• Reitan, Ruth. 'Who's Afraid of the Lion's Roar? Commentary on Grahame F.
  Thompson's "Exploring Sameness and Difference: Fundamentalisms and the
  Future of Globalization".' Globalizations 3, no. 4 (Dec. 2006): 455-8.
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• Reitan, Ruth. 'Human Rights in U.S. Policy: A Casualty of the 'War on
  Terrorism'?' International Journal of Human Rights 7, no. 4 (Winter 2003):
  51-62.
• Reitan, Ruth. 'Review Article: Population Transfer, Cleansing, and
  Partition.' Journal of Refugee Studies 14, no. 4 (May 2002): 436-446.
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• Reitan, Ruth. 'Religion as a Resource for Peace: A Theoretical and Practical
  Framework.' Journal of the Henry Martyn Institute [Hyderabad, India] 20, no. 1 (January-June 2001): 32-49. View PDF
• Reitan, Ruth. 'Strategic Nonviolent Conflict in Kosovo.' Peace & Change 25,
  no. 1 (January 2000): 70-101.
• Reitan, Ruth. 'Cuba, the Black Panther Party and the U.S. Black Movement in
  the 1960s: Issues of Security.' The New Political Science 21, no. 2 (June
  1999): 217-230. View PDF

Courses taught:

• Graduate Seminar in International Studies: International Relations/ Global Politics Theory I: Past, Present & Future, INS 610 DZ (Fall 2007)
• Graduate Seminar in International Studies: International Theory II: International Relations Theory in the Post-Cold War Era: ‘Neoliberalism and its Critics’,
  INS 610 HY (Spring 2009, Spring 2007, Fall 2006)
• Introduction to International Relations Theory: Classic Texts, Recurring Themes (16th century - World War II), INS 510 (Fall 2005)
• Advanced Seminar in International Relations: Classic Texts, Recurring Themes in International Relations II (Cold War Era), INS 503 (Spring 2006)
• Advanced Seminar in International Relations: Classic Texts, Recurring Themes in International Relations, III: Post-Cold War Era, INS 601 (Summer I 2006)
• Dissertation Proposal Workshop, INS 603 HX (Spring 2007)
• Graduate Seminar in International Studies Research Methodology,
  INS 511 (Spring 2006)
• Introduction to Security Studies (National Security Decisionmaking)
  INS540 HX (Fall 2006)
• Introduction to International Peace & Conflict Resolution (IPCR): Sources of Conflict, Resources for Peace, INS 540 (Fall 2005)
• Transnational Social Movements and Global Transformation
  INS 533 GX (Spring 2009, Fall 2007)
• Globalization and Human Rights , INS 532 EX (Fall 2008)
• Contemporary European Social Movements , INS 593 (Fall 2005)
• International Studies Methodology & Transnational Networks (Problems in International Studies), INS 201 (Spring 2006)
• Global Perspectives: Introduction to International Studies
  INS 101 E1/E2 (Fall 2008; Fall 2007; Spring 2007; and Fall 2006)
• Multilevel Governance, National Identity and Human Rights Protection in a Diversifying Europe
  Foreign Travel Study Abroad course, in collaboration with the European Academy (Eurac), Bozen/Bolzano, Italy, and the consortium Masters program in European Studies of Graz, Austria
  INS 594, sec. 98 (Summer II 2008)