Peter F. Cowhey holds a joint appointment as Professor in the Department of Political Science and at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, UC San Diego. Effective July 1, 1999, Prof. Cowhey will become the acting director of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation ( IGCC). His Major fields of research are international political economy, comparative foreign policy, and international relations theory. In 1994 Dr. Cowhey took leave from the Chief of the International Bureau of the FCC where he was in charge of all policy and licensing for International telecommunications services, including all satellite issues and licensing for the FCC. He also was responsible for the FCC's participation in the work of the ITU and in regard to the setting of international standards. Prior to becoming Bureau Chief he was the Commission's Senior Counselor for International Economic and Competition Policy. He oversaw the FCC' program for providing regulatory advice to other countries and represented the FCC at the G-7 and APEC ministerials on the global information society. From 1994 through 1997 he led the Commission's work in the WTO negotiations on basic telecommunications services and new competition rules for international telecom
Services (including the Internet).
His current research includes the political determinants of foreign policy, the reorganization of the global communications and information industries, and the future of foreign trade and investment rules in the Pacific Rim. His extensive research and writings on international telecommunications markets and regulation have been supported by such research institutes as the World Bank, the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution, the Markle Foundation, and the Twentieth Century Fund. His books include: The Problems of Plenty: Energy Policy and International Politics; When Countries Talk: International Trade in Telecommunications Services ( with J.Aronson); Managing the World Economy: The Consequences of Corporate Alliances (with J. Aronson); and Structure an Policy in Japan and United States ( co-edited with Mathew McCubbins).
Professor Cowhey has been an International Affairs Fellow of the Council of Foreign Relations and the Rockefeller Foundation, and a member of the editorial and advisory boards of several scholarly journals and research institutes. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Affairs. Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1977; M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1971; B.S. F. S. Georgetown University, 1970 ( Foreign Service).