SIPA: School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University

SIPA Faculty

Demetrios Caraley
International Affairs Building, Room 728
Professor of Political Science and H. Robb Professor of the Social Sciences, Barnard College
Phone: 212-854-3645
dc121@columbia.edu

Biography:
Editor of Political Science Quarterly and president of The Academy of Political Science, Demetrios James Caraley is also research professor of political science at Barnard College and professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University.

A specialist on city government and urban policies and problems and on congressional policies toward cities, Caraley has published numerous books and articles including Critical Issues for Clinton's Domestic Agenda (Academy of Political Science 1993), Doing More With Less: Cutback Management in New York City (Columbia University Graduate Program in Public Policy and Administration 1982), and City Governments and Urban Problems (Prentice Hall 1977). Caraley has been both an appointed and elected official in the Westchester County local government.

Caraley has also published books in the field of national security policy, his latest one being American Hegemony: Preventive War, Iraq, and Imposing Democracy (Academy of Political Science 1994). He has published September 11, Terrorist Attacks, and U.S. Foreign Policy (Academy of Political Science 1992); The New American Interventionism (Columbia 1999); The President's War Powers (Academy of Political Science 1984); and The Politics of Military Unification (University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton 1966).

Caraley's other field of interest is "democratic political theory and ethics," in which he has written a major article, "Elections and Dilemmas of American Democratic Governance," recently reprinted in Promise and Problems of Old and New Democracies, which was edited by Xiaobo Lü (Academy of Political Science 2000). In the Spring 2001 issue of PSQ, Caraley published an editorial entitled "Why Americans Need a Constitutional Right to Vote for Presidential Electors."

Caraley was a Russell Sage Foundation visiting scholar for the academic year 1995–96, where he worked on a continuing project called "Washington Abandons the Cities and the Urban Poor." Among his recent major articles are "Washington Abandons the Cities and Dismantling the Federal Safety Net: Fictions Versus Realities." His article "Ending Welfare as We Know It: A Reform Still in Progress," published in the Winter 2001 issue of the Quarterly was awarded a prize by the New York State Academy of Public Administration for the "outstanding publication of 2001."

Caraley was elected chairman of the Barnard political science department for ten three-year terms from 1965 to 1995, and was founding chairman of the Barnard Program on Urban Affairs, 1969–1995. He also established the Columbia Graduate Program in Public Policy and Administration and was the founding director, 1977–1985. Caraley served as a naval officer during the Korean War.