B.A., B.A., University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
Julie Blase was Visiting Faculty at the College during Winter and Spring quarters of 2003. Then she returned to Austin, Texas, and completed her doctorate in December of 2003 in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin.
Her dissertation studied how U.S. states are increasingly involved in the process and practice of U.S. foreign affairs, despite the U.S. Constitution's designation of the federal government as supreme in foreign affairs. But as globalization has changed the nature of domestic politics, U.S. states are establishing relations directly with foreign governments in a variety of policy areas. The conditions under which states are free to develop these direct relations, and the conditions under which the federal government will move to restrict them, is examined through the case study of Texas-Mexico relations in trade, criminal justice, family law, and border relations.
This year, Dr. Blase is serving as Faculty Adviser for The Principia Public Affairs Conference: Apprehending Terrorism.
For several years, Dr. Blase worked from Austin, Texas, as a freelance reporter and editor, with articles published in The Christian Science Monitor and Austin Business Journal, among others.
In 2000 she was a witness to history, serving as an accredited international election observer in Mexico during the election of current President Vicente Fox.
Her research interests include globalization, international criminal justice and terrorism, U.S. foreign policy and federalism, Latin American politics, international political economy, and international relations.
