Steven Weber
Professor and
Director of IIS of Political Science
Phone: (510) 642-8739
Office Location: IIS, Moses Hall
Office Hours: By Appt.
Fall 2008 Course: Not teaching in Political Science this term
Steven Weber is a specialist in International Relations with expertise in international and national security; the impact of technology on national systems of innovation, defense, and deterrence; and the political economy of knowledge-intensive industries particularly software and pharmaceuticals.
Trained in history and international development at Washington University, and medicine and political science at Stanford, Weber joined the Berkeley faculty in 1989. In 1992 he served as special consultant to the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London. He has held academic fellowships with the Council on Foreign Relations and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is Senior Policy Advisor with the Glover Park Group in Washington DC and actively consults with government agencies, private multinational firms, and international non-governmental organizations on issues of foreign policy, risk analysis, strategy, and forecasting.
Weber’s major publications include The Success of Open Source, Cooperation and Discord in U.S.-Soviet Arms Control, and the edited book Globalization and the European Political Economy; and numerous articles and chapters in the areas of U.S. foreign policy, the political economy of trade and technology, politics of the post-Cold War world, and European integration. His next book, with co-author Jonathan Sallet, extends the analysis of the political economy of open source software to other technology sectors in the world economy and maps the consequences for economic growth and innovation. With colleague and co-author Bruce Jentleson at Duke, Weber directs the "New Era Foreign Policy Project" and is completing a book manuscript on "The New Age of Ideology" in world politics.