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  Molly Cochran
Associate Professor
Sam Nunn School of International Affairs
molly.cochran@inta.gatech.edu

Ph.D., London School of Economics and Political Science, International Relations
Joined faculty in 1999


Research areas/interests
International Ethics, International Institutions, Contemporary Political Philosophy


Honors  
Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow 2002-03, American Political Science Association Small Research Grant 2000-2001,1997 British International Studies Association Ph.D. Thesis Prize


Current and recent projects  
Dr. Cochran is currently on leave from the Nunn School AY 2011-2012 and will be a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University with the Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict.


Recent publications  
“Human Rights and Civil Rights: The Advocacy and Activism of African American Women Writers”, co-authored with Jacqueline Royster, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Special Issue on Human Rights to be published vol. 42, no. 5, 2011.

Monographs
Normative Theory in International Relations: A Pragmatic Approach, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Edited Books
The Cambridge Companion to John Dewey, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Book Chapters
“John Dewey as an International Thinker” in The Cambridge Companion to John Dewey. Molly Cochran, ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

“The Ethics of the English School” in The Oxford Handbook of International Relations. Duncan Snidal and Chris Reus-Smit eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

“Conceptualizing the Power of Transnational Agents: Pragmatism and International Public Spheres” in Does Truth Matter? Democracy and Public Space. Raf Geenens and Ronald Tinnevelt, eds. Dordrecht: Springer, 2008.

“A Pragmatist Perspective on Ethical Foreign Policy,” in Ethical Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice, (Smith and Light. eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

“What Does it Mean to be an American Social Science? A Pragmatist Case for Diversity in International Relations,” in International Relations: Still a Social Science, (Crawford and Jarvis, Eds.), Albany: State University Press of New York, 2000.

Refereed Publications
“Charting the Ethics of the English School: What ‘Good’ is There in a Middle-Ground Ethics”, International Studies Quarterly, March 2009.

“Deweyan Pragmatism and Post-Positivist Social Science in IR”, Millennium: Journal of International Affairs, vol. 30, no. 3, February 2003.

Book Manuscript (work in progress)
International Publics: Agents of Democratic Change in World Politics