Alex Hybel

Biography

A native of Argentina, Alex Roberto Hybel's research and teaching interests are in international relations theory, U.S. foreign policy, U.S. foreign policy decision-making, democracy, and Latin American politics. Some of the courses and seminars he teaches are: International Relations Theory; International Relations; Democracy in Latin America; Challenges to Democracy in Europe’s Mediterranean Region, U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Latin America; The New International System; U.S. Foreign Policy Decision-Making; and International Politics Through Film. In 2012, Hybel was awarded the Nancy Batson Nisbet Rash Faculty Research Award, which provides a research fund to be presented annually to a member of the faculty for outstanding scholarly or artistic accomplishments. The Student Government Association awarded him the John King Teaching Award in 2013. In March 2014, he published his seventh and eighth books, US Foreign Policy Decision-Making From Truman to Kennedy and US Foreign Policy Decision-Making From Kennedy to Obama. He co-authored several of the chapters in both books with eight present and former students. Hybel's previous books are: The Power of Ideology: From the Roman Empire to Al-Qaeda (2009); The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein: Deciding on Conflict (co-authored with Justin Kaufman '04) (2006); Made by the U.S.A. - The International System(2001); Power Over Rationality (1993); How Leaders Reason: U.S. Intervention in the Caribbean Basin and Latin America (1990); and The Logic of Surprise in International Conflict (1986). Professor Hybel has received research and teaching grants from the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, the Pew Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation. He was named Susan Eckert Lynch Professor of Government in 1995. Professor Hybel served as Associate Director for Research for the Toor-Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts (1992-94); Associate Dean of Faculty for Administration (1993-94); and Dean of National and International Programs (1994-97). Professor Hybel has led Study Away/Teach Away (SATA) programs to Perugia, Italy (Spring 2014); Seville, Spain (Spring 2007); and Cape Town, South Africa (Fall 1998). Professor Hybel is an avid photographer and in 2013 published his third photography book, Field of Vision. During the 2007-08 academic year Hybel was the Fei Yi-Ming Visiting Professor at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in Nanjing, China.

Research Interest

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA