Valerie J. Assetto - valerie.assetto@colostate.edu
Professor - Ph.D., Rice University, 1984.

Fields: International relations (international organization and international environmental politics), Comparative Politics (post-communist systems), and Political Economy. Author of The Soviet Bloc in the IMF and IBRD (Westview Press, 1988). Co-author of "Decentralization and Local Capacity for Environmental Policy-Making in Post-Communist Hungary" and co-editor of The International Political Economy of the Environment: Critical Perspectives (Lynne Rienner, 2001). Member of the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1995-97. "I am currently interested in environmental politics in the East and Central European region, focusing on International river basin management (particularly the Danube and Tisza Rivers), foreign financing of energy and environment, and local government capacity for environmental policy-making in Hungary. At the undergraduate level, I incorporate a section on environmental politics into Russian, East and Central European Politics (PO 345), African Politics (PO444), and International Organization (PO433). At the graduate level, I include environmental politics in Politics of Change and Development (PO 541) and International Environmental Politics (PO 739)."