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Karen Litfin

Office: Gowen 33
(206) 685-3694

litfin@u.washington.edu

(Ph.D., UCLA), associate professor, specializes in international relations theory and international environmental politics. She is primarily interested in the impact of science and technology on world politics. Other interests include globalization, gender related issues, and ethics in world politics. Her first book, Ozone Discourses: Science and Politics in International Environmental Cooperation (Columbia University Press, 1994), looked at the discursive framing of science in environmental negotiations. Her most recent book is an edited collection, The Greening of Sovereignty in World Politics (MIT Press, 1998). She teaches courses on International Politics, International Environmental Politics, Technology and Politics, Gender and International Relations Theory.

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