Social Science Research Council

STEVEN WEBER is associate professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley; and an associate with the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE). His areas of special interest include international political economy, political and social change in the new economy, and the political economy of globalization and European integration.

His publications include Cooperation and Discord in U.S.-Soviet Arms Control, the edited book Globalization and The European Political Economy, and numerous articles and chapters in the areas of U.S. foreign policy, political economy of the post-Cold War world, and European integration. His current research focuses on the political economy of knowledge-based industries and open-source software models (The Success of Open Source will be published in 2002). He is a consultant with Global Business Network in Emeryville, California where he works with global firms and governments on the political-economy consequences of information and communications technologies. He is also a former Senior Advisor at the Markle Foundation in New York.