Jeffrey Roberg
Professor Jeffrey Roberg’s research and teaching previously focused primarily on the former Soviet Union and its successor states, exploring issues of human rights, nuclear proliferation, the safety of civilian and military nuclear programs in the United States and the former Soviet Union, and the relationship of the Soviet scientific community and political elites. In addition to his book, Soviet Science Under Control: The Struggle for Influence, he has published several articles on the role of Soviet technology and its impact on the Soviet people as well as an article on Russian human rights.
Over the course of the last decade he has expanded his human rights and environmental politics research to include Latin America with particular emphasis on Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, and Peru. Prof. Roberg’s most recent publication is a co-edited book with Professor Penny Seymoure titled, Tourism in Northeastern Argentina: The Intersection of Human and Indigenous Rights With the Environment (2011).
Some of his other publications are: “The Importance of International Treaties: Is Ratification Necessary?” in the Spring 2007 edition of World Affairs; “Cuba: Ideological Success or Ideological Failure?” co-authored with Alyson Kuttruff ’06, published in the August 2007 edition of Human Rights Quarterly; and “Derechos individuales vs. derechos ambientales: ¿hay un balance? El turismo en Puerto Iguazú, Argentina,” in Parque Nacional Iguazú Conservación y desarrollo en la Selva Paranaense de Argentina, edited by Bruno Carpinetti, Mirta Garciarena, and Marcelo Almirón, in 2009.
In addition to teaching courses such as Introduction to International Relations, International Security, Nuclear Proliferation, Human Rights, Introduction to Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics and Russian and East European Politics, he has also led eco- and ethno-tourism study abroad courses to Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands and Peru, as well as a political transition course to Russia, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia and to Cuba four times.
He joined the Carthage faculty in 1997 and is a professor of political science.