David Rezvani

Lecturer

DAVID A. REZVANI, is a Resident Research Scholar and Lecturer at Dartmouth College. His research interests include political integration, Asian politics, and US foreign policy.  Among his publications, he is the author of Surpassing the Sovereign State: The Wealth, Self-Rule, and Security Advantages of Partially Independent Territories (Oxford University Press, 2014). He has previously taught at Harvard University, MIT, Oxford University, Trinity College, Brown University, and Boston University. He has held research fellowships at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and has won a variety of research grants. As a speaker of English, Mandarin Chinese, and Persian, he has conducted fieldwork in Europe, China, and the Middle East.

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David.A.Rezvani@Dartmouth.edu
  • Institute for Writing and Rhetoric
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Education

  • B.A. University of Washington
  • M.Sc. London School of Economics and Political Science
  • D.Phil. University of Oxford, St. Antony's College

Selected Publications

  • Selected Publications

    Rezvani, David A. and Jan Sundberg, "Introducing Partially Independent Nation Territories" in Jan Sundberg and Stefan Sjöblom eds. Governing Partially Independent Nation Territories: Evidence from Northern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

    Rezvani, David A., "Credibility Explanations for the Success of Ethnoautonomy Arrangements" in Jan Sundberg and Stefan Sjöblom eds. Governing Partially Independent Nation Territories: Evidence from Northern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

    Rezvani, David A., "Examining Autonomy Options in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Balochistan: Federalism, Full Independence, or Partial Independence?" in Ryan Brasher ed. Ethno-federalism in Punjab and Beyond (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).

    "Partial Independence Beats Full Independence." Territory, Politics, Governance Vol. 4(3) (2016), pp. 269-296.

    Surpassing the Sovereign State: The Wealth, Self-Rule, and Security Advantages of Partially Independent Territories.  (Oxford University Press, 2014). More Info

     "Dead Autonomy, a Thousand Cuts, or Partial Independence?  The Autonomous Status of Hong Kong." Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 42, No. 1 (2012), pp. 93-122.

    "The Basis of Puerto Rico's Constitutional Status: Colony, Compact, or 'Federacy'?" Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 122, No. 1 (2007), pp. 115-140.

Works In Progress

Book on the partially independent status of Hong Kong in authoritarian China.

Book on US national security policy and the formation of territorial unions.

Selected Works & Activities

RECENT DARTMOUTH COURSES

Debates in International Politics: Catastrophe, Confrontation, Compromise (MALS 216)

Artificial Intelligence and Democracy (MALS 127)

International Politics of Contemporary Asia (MALS 210)

Politics and Power in Greater China (MALS 215)

Thesis Research (MALS 137)

International Conflict and Cooperation in Asia (ASCL 07.02)

Crisis and Strategy in American Foreign Policy (PBPL 021)

Division and Integration in the Modern World (WRIT 5)