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James Vreeland (Ph.D., New York University, 1999) is Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Professor Vreeland conducts research in the area of international political economy.
Professor Vreeland's research explores a wide range of policy
outcomes: economic growth and the distribution of income under programs of economic reform, transparency and the dissemination of information under various political systems, the foreign policy positions of developing countries when participating in prominent international bodies, and even governmental decisions to engage in the practice torture. Vreeland's explanations for policy outcomes involve the interaction of domestic and international politics. The accounts acknowledge the agency of political actors in the developing world, who make decisions subject to constraints shaped by both international and domestic institutions. His research is most known for its treatment of international institutions, particularly the International Monetary Fund, and more recently the World Bank and the United Nations.

In addition to his first book, entitled The IMF and Economic Development (Cambridge University Press, March 2003), he has recently completed an introductory text on the IMF entitled The International Monetary Fund: Politics of Conditional Lending (Routledge, January 2007), and he co-edited Globalization and the Nation State: The Impact of the IMF and the World Bank (Routledge, 2006). Vreeland's research has appeared in International Organization, Journal of Development Economics, Political Analysis, World Development, The Review of International Organizations, and International Political Science Review. He teaches courses on comparative politics, political economy, and international relations.
He also serves on the faculty of the Program on Ethics, Politics and Economics and the International Studies Program.

Vreeland's curriculum vitae includes embedded links to his publications, papers under review, and conference papers.
There are also links to press coverage of his research. A list of current projects is also available on his research page.