Chorev, Nitsan

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Nitsan Chorev

Harmon Family Professor of Sociology, Professor of International and Public Affairs

Overview

Nitsan Chorev is the Harmon Family Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. She is a scholar of global political economy, global health, and international organizations. Chorev is the author of three books: Give and Take: Developmental Foreign Aid and the Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa (Princeton University Press, 2020), The World Health Organization between North and South (Cornell University Press, 2012), and Remaking U.S. Trade Policy: From Protectionism to Globalization (Cornell University Press, 2007). She’s currently working on a new project on the political economy of miltiary and technological innovation.

Brown Affiliations

Research Areas

global political economy | globalization | health | international organizations | technology | trade

Publications

Andia, Tatiana, Chorev, Nitsan. "Inequalities and Social Resilience in Times of COVID-19." Revista de Estudios Sociales, no. 78, 2021, pp. 2-13.

"The Virus and the Vessel Or: How we Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Surveillance." Socio-Economic Review, vol. 19, no. 4, 2021, pp. 1497-1513.

Give and Take: Developmental Foreign Aid and the Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa. Princeton University Press.. Princeton University Press, 2020.

Chorev, Nitsan. "The World Health Organization between the United States and China." Global Social Policy, 2020, pp. 146801812096666.

"The World Health Organization’s Response to Ebola in Historical Perspective.", Manchester University Press, 2020.

Chorev, Nitsan. "Making Medicines in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda in the AIDS Era." Sociology of Development, vol. 5, no. 2, 2019, pp. 115-146.

Nitsan Chorev. "Neoliberalism and Supra-National Institutions”." SAGE Handbook of Neoliberalism, 2018, pp. 260-269.

Tatiana Andia and Nitsan Chorev. "Making Knowledge Legitimate: Transnational Advocacy Networks’ Campaigns Against Tobacco, Infant Formula, and Pharmaceuticals.”." Global Networks, vol. 17, no. 2, 2017, pp. 255-280.

Nitsan Chorev and Andrew Schrank. "Professionals and the Professions in the Global South: An Introduction”." Sociology of Development, vol. 3, no. 3, 2017, pp. 197-210.

Babb, Sarah, Chorev, Nitsan. "International Organizations: Loose and Tight Coupling in the Development Regime." Studies in Comparative International Development, vol. 51, no. 1, 2016, pp. 81-102.

"International Health Organizations as Purposive and Strategic Actors: Theoretical Gains and Methodological Implications.”." Hygiea Internationalis: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the History of Public Health , vol. 13, no. 1, 2016, pp. 19-47.

Chorev, Nitsan, Shadlen, Kenneth C. "Intellectual Property, Access to Medicines, and Health: New Research Horizons." Studies in Comparative International Development, vol. 50, no. 2, 2015, pp. 143-156.

Chorev, Nitsan. "Narrowing the Gaps in Global Disputes: the Case of Counterfeits in Kenya." Studies in Comparative International Development, vol. 50, no. 2, 2015, pp. 157-186.

The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Global Change. edited by J. Timmons Roberts, Amy Bellone Hite, and Nitsan Chorev, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.

Chorev, Nitsan. "Restructuring neoliberalism at the World Health Organization." Review of International Political Economy, vol. 20, no. 4, 2013, pp. 627-666.

Chorev, N. "Changing Global Norms through Reactive Diffusion: The Case of Intellectual Property Protection of AIDS Drugs." American Sociological Review, vol. 77, no. 5, 2012, pp. 831-853.

The World Health Organization Between North and South. Cornell University Press, 2012.

Chorev, N. "Fixing Globalization Institutionally: US Domestic Politics of International Trade." International Sociology, vol. 25, no. 1, 2010, pp. 54-74.

Chorev, Nitsan, Babb, Sarah. "The crisis of neoliberalism and the future of international institutions: A comparison of the IMF and the WTO." Theory and Society, vol. 38, no. 5, 2009, pp. 459-484.

CHOREV, NITSAN. "The Judicial Transformation of the State: The Case of U.S. Trade Policy, 1974-2004." Law Policy, vol. 31, no. 1, 2009, pp. 31-68.

Chorev, Nitsan. "A fluid divide: Domestic and international factors in US trade policy formation." Review of International Political Economy, vol. 14, no. 4, 2007, pp. 653-689.

Remaking U.S. Trade Policy. Cornell University Press, 2007.

CHOREV, NITSAN. "Making and Remaking State Institutional Arrangements: The Case of U.S. Trade Policy in the 1970s*." Journal of Historical Sociology, vol. 18, no. 1-2, 2005, pp. 3-36.

Chorev, Nitsan. "The institutional project of neo-liberal globalism: The case of the WTO." Theory and Society, vol. 34, no. 3, 2005, pp. 317-355.