David Cameron

David R. Cameron is a professor emeritus of political science at Yale. He received his B.A. from Williams College in 1964, an M.B.A. from Dartmouth in 1966, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1968, and his Ph.D. from The University of Michigan in 1976. He began teaching at Yale in January 1975 and taught courses on Comparative Politics, European Politics, and the European Union. He continues to teach a seminar on the European Union and a seminar on the war in Ukraine and will do so again in 2024-25. He served at various times as the Chair, Director of Graduate Studies, or Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Political Science and served for many years as the Director of the Yale Program in European Union Studies in the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.

Professor Cameron has written about the impact of trade openness on government and, with respect to the EU, the operation of the European Monetary System, the negotiation of the Treaty on European Union, Economic and Monetary Union, the eurozone crisis, the creation of democratic polities and market-oriented economies in central and eastern Europe, Brexit, and the crisis in Ukraine. His publications include “The Expansion of the Public Economy: A Comparative Analysis,” American Political Science Review, 1978 (one of the ten most-cited APSR articles published between 1945 and 2005); Globalization and Self-Determination: Is the Nation-State under Siege? (Routledge, 2006), edited with Gustav Ranis and Annalisa Zinn; “Post-Communist Democracy: The Impact of the European Union,” Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 23, July-September 2007; “Creating Market Economies after Communism: The Impact of the European Union,” Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 25, January-March 2009; “Post-Soviet Authoritarianism: The Influence of Russia in Its “Near Abroad,” Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol.28, January-March 2012; and Canada in the World: Comparative Perspectives on the Canadian Constitution (Cambridge University Press, 2018), co-edited with Richard Albert.