Return to Faculty List Yael Wolinsky, Ph.D. University of Chicago Associate Chairperson, Department of Political Science, and Faculty associate, Center for International and Comparative Studies (CICS). Her research and teaching interests are in International Relations and Environmental Politics. She is currently co-editing a book on methodological approaches in the study of International Relations and conducting research on state and local ballot initiatives on environmental issues. She has written about the effects of electoral politics on international non-crisis bargaining; game theory and international environmental policy-making (with Marc Kilgour); and two-level analysis of international negotiation over long-range transboundary air pollution. She is the coordinator of Northwestern University Center for International and Comparative Studies (CICS) speaker series “Globalization and the Environment”.