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Daniel McDowell

Daniel McDowell

Contact Information:

dmcdowel@syr.edu

315.443.8678

334 Eggers Hall

Daniel McDowell

Professor, Political Science Department


Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of International Affairs

Co-Director, Study of Global Politics Speaker Series, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

Courses

  • 2024 Fall
    • PSC 355 International Political Economy
    • PSC 300 Selected Topics - Geoeconomics and Statecraft
  • 2024 Summer
    • PSC 355 International Political Economy
  • 2024 Spring
    • PSC 355 International Political Economy
    • PSC 124 International Relations
    • PSC 700 Selected Topics - Geoeconomics and Statecraft
  • 2023 Summer
    • PSC 355 International Political Economy
  • 2023 Spring
    • PSC 355 International Political Economy
  • 2022 Fall
    • PSC 753 International Political Economy
  • 2022 Summer
    • PSC 355 International Political Economy
  • 2022 Spring
    • PSC 496 Distinction Thesis Seminar in Political Science II
    • MAX 132 Global Community
    • PSC 355 International Political Economy

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2012

Areas of Expertise

International political economy, international finance, international monetary system, IMF

Selected Publications

Presentations and Events

Gates Forum III, Gates Global Policy Center, "The Sources of American Financial Power and its Challengers" (December 5, 2024 - December 5, 2024)

Malone University, "The Sources of American Financial Power and its Challengers" (November 14, 2024 - November 14, 2024)

State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) Institute, SSGA, "Future of USD: Risk and Reality of ‘de dollarization’" (October 16, 2024 - October 16, 2024)

Establishing Deterrence: American Financial Power, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia (April 23, 2024 - April 23, 2024)

"The Sanctions Age Podcast, Episode 3" (April 23, 2024 - April 23, 2024)

Policy Planning Lab, Maxwell School, "Geoeconomics, Economic Statecraft, and Sanctions" (April 21, 2024 - April 21, 2024)

Jeffries Asia Forum 2024, Jeffries Group, "De-dollarization: What is real, what is imagined?" (March 21, 2024 - March 21, 2024)

Peterson Institute of International Economics (PIIE) Executive Leadership Council meeting, PIIE, "Bucking the Buck: US Financial Sanctions & the International Backlash Against the Dollar"" (February 19, 2024 - February 19, 2024)

University of Waterloo, "Bucking the Buck: US Financial Sanctions & the International Backlash Against the Dollar" (January 19, 2024 - January 19, 2024)

Atlantic Council, "Debating the Dollar: Who Wants It, Who Doesn't, and What Comes Next" (December 12, 2023 - December 12, 2023)

The Future of the Global Order, Cornell University; University of Zurich (November 29, 2023 - December 1, 2023)

Capstone (November 7, 2023 - November 7, 2023)

Reshaping the World's Wallet: The Reality of De-Dollarization, Network 20/20 (November 1, 2023 - November 1, 2023)

Reimagining U.S. Grand Strategy, Stimson Center (October 26, 2023 - October 26, 2023)

Browne Center, University of Pennsylvania, "Do Dollar's Make Sense? How Russians Responded to Sanctions" (October 12, 2023 - October 12, 2023)

Autonomous Research (October 10, 2023 - October 10, 2023)

Executive Programme in Gold Reserves Management, World Gold Council; SUERF; Oesterrichische Nationalbank, "Financial Sanctions & Gold as a Reserve Asset" (October 5, 2023 - October 5, 2023)

Sonoma State University, "Fireside Chat: Bucking the Buck: US Financial Sanctions & International Backlash Against the Dollar" (September 22, 2023 - September 22, 2023)

American Society for International Law (September 21, 2023 - September 21, 2023)

Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) (September 19, 2023 - September 19, 2023)

Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY), "Sanctions and the Dollar" (September 19, 2023 - September 19, 2023)

SUERF (European Money and Finance Forum) (June 21, 2023 - June 21, 2023)

Goldman Sachs (June 6, 2023 - June 6, 2023)

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (May 3, 2023 - May 3, 2023)

The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (April 14, 2023 - April 14, 2023)

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (March 24, 2023 - March 24, 2023)

American Political Science Association annual meeting, "The Popular Legitimacy of the Federal Reserve after its Racial Awakening" (March 16, 2023 - March 16, 2023)

University of Ontario (2022)

American Political Science Association annual meeting (2020 - 2022)

Carleton University (2021)

International Studies Association annual meeting (2021)

Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting (2021)

International Political Economy Society annual meeting (2020 - 2021)

Georgetown University (2019)

Tulane University (2019)

International Studies Association annual meeting (2019)