Dr. Jeffrey Kucik

Lecturer in International Relations

• Name: Dr. Jeffrey Kucik
• Position: Lecturer in International Relations, IPP Programme Director/Coordinator
• Room: 2.01
• Telephone:
• Fax: +44 (0)20 7679 4992
• Email: j.kucik@ucl.ac.uk

Introduction

Dr. Jeffrey Kucik is Lecturer in International Political Economy and Director of the MSc International Public Policy programme. He holds a PhD from Emory University (‘10) and an MA from the University of Manchester (‘05). He lectures on international organisation and political economy. He joined UCL in the fall of 2010.

Research Interests

Dr. Kucik’s research is chiefly concerned with issues in international political economy. In particular, he focuses on the legal architecture of the global trade regime. To that end, his recent work seeks to explain variation in the design of preferential trade agreements, which have become an increasingly prominent feature of the international economic landscape.

Beyond trade institutions, Dr. Kucik is also interested in the politics of global economic governance, the determinants of foreign investment flows and the intersection between trade, investment, and armed conflict.

His work has appeared in International Organization and International Studies Quarterly.

Publications

• Andrew Kerner and Jeffrey Kucik. 2010. "The International and Domestic Determinants of Insider Trading Laws." International Studies Quarterly, 54:657-682.
• Jeffrey Kucik and Eric Reinhardt. 2008. "Does Flexibility Promote Cooperation? An Application to the Global Trade Regime." International Organization, 62:477-505.

Ongoing

• With Nigel Lo. “Peacekeeping Forces and Post-Civil War Economic Recovery.” Under review;
• With Randall Strahan. “Lobbying Over Trade Agreement Design: Partisanship and the Congressional Politics of U.S. Trade Agreements.” In progress.