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The International Relations Undergraduate Program is an interdisciplinary degree drawn from courses in Economics, International Business, Political Science and History. The degree provides a broad understanding of world affairs and competence for entry-level positions in the field. It is also suitable for entrance into law school or graduate school.
Students of this program have gone on to work in the Department of Commerce, Department of Interior, Central Intelligence Agency and Peace Corps, among others.
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Students of this program have gone on to work in the Department of Commerce, Department of Interior, Central Intelligence Agency and Peace Corps, among others.
Contact Us
Amber Aubone, Ph.D. (210) 431-3100 aaubone@stmarytx.eduSt. Louis Hall 318
Major Program
A Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in International Relations requires students to take classes in languages, history, political science, economics and international business.All majors are encourage to take an internship, either overseas or with an appropriate agency in the United States.
For more information on the major, please go to the degree plans.
Completion of the second semester, second year of a modern foreign language.
For more information, please see the degree plans and course catalog.
For more information, please see the degree plans and course catalog.
The International Relations Society of St. Mary's University is a society of students, both graduate and undergraduate, that study or have an interest in international relations. The primary goal of the International Relations Society is to promote social networking among graduate and undergraduate students and alumni interested in international relations. The International Relations Society provides a forum to share information concerning career opportunities, events and academic programs, as well as to provide mentorship to students interested in entering the field of international relations. The Society will also continuously support and promote the values of St. Mary's University.
Please see the Student Clubs page for more information.
Please see the Student Clubs page for more information.
Faculty
Amber Aubone
Director, Undergraduate International RelationsAssistant Professor
Political Science
International Relations
Email: aaubone@stmarytx.edu Full Bio Details
Ph.D., University of North Texas
M.A., St. Mary's University
B.A., University of Texas at San Antonio
Courses taught:
M.A., St. Mary's University
B.A., University of Texas at San Antonio
Courses taught:
- Causes of War
- International Relations
- National Security
- Political Research Methods
- Political Violence
- Understanding Politics
- U.S. Foreign Policy
Charles L. Cotrell, Ph.D.
President of the UniversityPolitical Science
International Relations
Email: president@stmarytx.edu Full Bio Details
Ph.D., University of Arizona
M.A., St. Mary's University
B.A., St. Mary's University
Learn more about Dr. Cotrell on the President's site.
M.A., St. Mary's University
B.A., St. Mary's University
Learn more about Dr. Cotrell on the President's site.
Larry Hufford
ProfessorPolitical Science
International Relations
Email: lhufford@stmarytx.edu Full Bio Details
Ph.D., London School of Economics and Political Science, 1971
M.S.W., Our Lady of the Lake University, 1978
M.A., University of Miami (Ohio), 1965
B.S., Ohio State University. 1964
Courses taught:
M.S.W., Our Lady of the Lake University, 1978
M.A., University of Miami (Ohio), 1965
B.S., Ohio State University. 1964
Courses taught:
- Causes of War and Sustainable Human Development
- Ethical Issues in International Relations
- International Conflict Resolution
- International Relations Theory
Celine A. Jacquemin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Political ScienceAssociate Dean for Student & Curricular Affairs
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Email:cjacquemin1@stmarytx.edu Full Bio Details
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, December 2003
M.A., University of California, Irvine, 2000
B.A. Political Science with German minor, CA State University, Fullerton, 1993
Dr. Celine A. Jacquemin was born and raised in France. Dr Celine, as her students call her, is an Associate Professor in Political Science and is currently serving as Associate Dean for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her research focuses on international response to genocide and to patterns of human rights violations.
Her expertise covers parts of Europe and the Great Lakes of Africa where she more closely studies Rwanda. A constructivist by training, she is developing a new framework that can further help us understand what makes it 'easy' for people to violate the rights of others in order to educate for the respect of human rights. She is expanding her focus to the case of Darfur in the Sudan. This is how she has come to "Researching the Road to Peace" where she makes ground breaking conclusions.
She also serves as a pro-bono expert witness for political asylum cases often linked to female genital mutilation and rape with the St Mary's University Center for Legal and Social Justice.
She co-authored a chapter with Alison Brysk "Bridging Borders for Human Rights" in Transnational Civil Society published by Kumarian Press in 2006. In November 2008, she published "Allied against all odds to fight genocide: How far has the US come?" in Revista Espaco Academico. In April 2010, she published "Female Genital Cutting: shattering the debate yet still violating human rights" also in Revista Espaco Academico.
Eva Bueno, Ph.D., and Celine Jacquemin, Ph.D., were published in the latest Revista Espaco Academico. Read both articles online here.
M.A., University of California, Irvine, 2000
B.A. Political Science with German minor, CA State University, Fullerton, 1993
Dr. Celine A. Jacquemin was born and raised in France. Dr Celine, as her students call her, is an Associate Professor in Political Science and is currently serving as Associate Dean for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her research focuses on international response to genocide and to patterns of human rights violations.
Her expertise covers parts of Europe and the Great Lakes of Africa where she more closely studies Rwanda. A constructivist by training, she is developing a new framework that can further help us understand what makes it 'easy' for people to violate the rights of others in order to educate for the respect of human rights. She is expanding her focus to the case of Darfur in the Sudan. This is how she has come to "Researching the Road to Peace" where she makes ground breaking conclusions.
She also serves as a pro-bono expert witness for political asylum cases often linked to female genital mutilation and rape with the St Mary's University Center for Legal and Social Justice.
She co-authored a chapter with Alison Brysk "Bridging Borders for Human Rights" in Transnational Civil Society published by Kumarian Press in 2006. In November 2008, she published "Allied against all odds to fight genocide: How far has the US come?" in Revista Espaco Academico. In April 2010, she published "Female Genital Cutting: shattering the debate yet still violating human rights" also in Revista Espaco Academico.
Eva Bueno, Ph.D., and Celine Jacquemin, Ph.D., were published in the latest Revista Espaco Academico. Read both articles online here.
Zaida Martinez, Ph.D.
Professor of International BusinessInternational Relations
Phone: (210) 431-6760
Email: zmartinez@stmarytx.edu Full Bio Details
B.S.S., Universidad De Puerto Rico, 1969
M.A., American University, 1975
M.B.A., Florida State University, 1982
Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1987
Zaida Martinez, Ph.D. received her doctorate in international business from the University of South Carolina. Prior to joining St. Mary’s University she was a faculty member and chair of the Business Department in the Business School of South Carolina State University. During her tenure at St. Mary’s she has served as co-director of the Southern Cone Studies Program and as either director or co-director of three U.S. Department of Education grants. She has also served as an internationalization consultant to the University of Puerto Rico, the Alamo Community College District and Georgetown College.
Her teaching experience includes cross-cultural management, business environment of Latin America, globalization and international business. Her current research interests are in the areas of management education, international business ethics, and globalization. Her work has appeared in the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of International Management, Management International Review and the Journal of Catholic Higher Education. She also co-edited the book, International Business Scholarship.
M.A., American University, 1975
M.B.A., Florida State University, 1982
Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1987
Zaida Martinez, Ph.D. received her doctorate in international business from the University of South Carolina. Prior to joining St. Mary’s University she was a faculty member and chair of the Business Department in the Business School of South Carolina State University. During her tenure at St. Mary’s she has served as co-director of the Southern Cone Studies Program and as either director or co-director of three U.S. Department of Education grants. She has also served as an internationalization consultant to the University of Puerto Rico, the Alamo Community College District and Georgetown College.
Her teaching experience includes cross-cultural management, business environment of Latin America, globalization and international business. Her current research interests are in the areas of management education, international business ethics, and globalization. Her work has appeared in the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of International Management, Management International Review and the Journal of Catholic Higher Education. She also co-edited the book, International Business Scholarship.
Richard A. Menger, Ph.D.
Visiting Associate Professor of ManagementPhone: (210) 431-2027
Email: rmenger@stmarytx.edu Full Bio Details
Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1992
During an 18-year banking career, Richard Menger, Ph.D., managed such diverse activities as market research and planning, international services, business development, advertising and public relations. He was also regional manager for strategic business planning for Texas' largest bank holding company and spent two years as a planning liaison with McKinsey & Co. His primary research interests include links between planning process characteristics and firm performance, executive succession and shareholder wealth, international management structure and communications, media ethics and the private equity industry's role in mergers and acquisitions.
Active in a number of academic, professional and community organizations, Menger has served as organizational behavior and strategic management track chair for the Southwest Academy of Management and is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth and the Round Table Group. He also serves as a board member of the Texas Business Hall of Fame and trustee of The Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation and a member of the Community Advisory Board for Goodwill Industries.
His publications have appeared in the Journal of Marketing Management, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management, Southwest Business Review, Journal of Asian Business, Managerial Finance and Texas Banking. He also is a co-editor of International Business Scholarship, a 2001 publication by Quorum Books.
At St. Mary’s, Menger held the Deirdre Harkins Richards Professorship in 1996, was chairperson of the Department of Management from 1996-2002 and served as Director of the Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) program from 2005-2011.
During an 18-year banking career, Richard Menger, Ph.D., managed such diverse activities as market research and planning, international services, business development, advertising and public relations. He was also regional manager for strategic business planning for Texas' largest bank holding company and spent two years as a planning liaison with McKinsey & Co. His primary research interests include links between planning process characteristics and firm performance, executive succession and shareholder wealth, international management structure and communications, media ethics and the private equity industry's role in mergers and acquisitions.
Active in a number of academic, professional and community organizations, Menger has served as organizational behavior and strategic management track chair for the Southwest Academy of Management and is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth and the Round Table Group. He also serves as a board member of the Texas Business Hall of Fame and trustee of The Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation and a member of the Community Advisory Board for Goodwill Industries.
His publications have appeared in the Journal of Marketing Management, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management, Southwest Business Review, Journal of Asian Business, Managerial Finance and Texas Banking. He also is a co-editor of International Business Scholarship, a 2001 publication by Quorum Books.
At St. Mary’s, Menger held the Deirdre Harkins Richards Professorship in 1996, was chairperson of the Department of Management from 1996-2002 and served as Director of the Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) program from 2005-2011.
Steve Neiheisel, Ph.D.
ProfessorChairman, Political Science Department
London Study Abroad Director
Email: sneiheisel@stmarytx.edu Full Bio Details
Ph.D., Washington University, 1990
M.B.A., Xavier University, 1982
B.A., Xavier University, 1981
Area of interest: Leadership, Non-Profit Organizations, Catholic Education
Neiheisel is an award-winning lecturer, internationally published writer, and national leader in civic education.
Courses taught:
M.B.A., Xavier University, 1982
B.A., Xavier University, 1981
Area of interest: Leadership, Non-Profit Organizations, Catholic Education
Neiheisel is an award-winning lecturer, internationally published writer, and national leader in civic education.
Courses taught:
- American National Goverment
- Business Government and the Public
- Leadership and Organizations
- Nonprofit Management
Recent Awards
2012 - La Salle Pillar Distinguished Alumni Award, 2011 - Contributing author to the Catholic Press Associations third place in history award winning edited volume Urban Catholic Education, publshed by Alliance for Catholic Education Press, Notre Dame University, 2010, Tom Hunt and Tim Walch editors, with his piece entitled Latino City Catholicism: Catholic Education in San AntonioLeona Pallansch, Ph.D.
Associate ProfessorPolitical Science
International Relations
Email: lpallansch@stmarytx.edu Full Bio Details
Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1995
M.A., Georgetown University, 1983
B.A., University of Virginia, 1981
Courses taught:
M.A., Georgetown University, 1983
B.A., University of Virginia, 1981
Courses taught:
- Applied Research Methods
- International Political Economy
- Scope and Methods in International Relations
- Theories on the Causes of War
- Understanding Politics
Gerald E. Poyo, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of HistoryInternational Relations
Phone: (210) 436-3703
Email: gpoyo@stmarytx.edu
Office: Chaminade Tower, Rm. 504 Full Bio Details
Ph.D., University of Florida, 1983
M.A., University of Texas, 1975
B.A., University of South Carolina, 1972
Born in New Jersey, Gerald E. Poyo grew up in Bogot�, Colombia; Caracas, Venezuela; and Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a graduate student he studied Latin American and U.S. Latino history. He worked as a research associate and curator at the University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio before taking a faculty position at Florida International University in Miami in 1990. From 1992-1996 he occupied the O'Connor Chair in the Study of Spanish Colonial Texas and the Southwest at St. Mary's University and then accepted a position in the Department of History. Poyo is currently Chair of the History Department and teaches courses in colonial and modern Latin American history as well as U.S. ethnic and immigration history and the history of Latino communities in the United States.
Born in New Jersey, Gerald E. Poyo grew up in Bogot�, Colombia; Caracas, Venezuela; and Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a graduate student he studied Latin American and U.S. Latino history. He worked as a research associate and curator at the University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio before taking a faculty position at Florida International University in Miami in 1990. From 1992-1996 he occupied the O'Connor Chair in the Study of Spanish Colonial Texas and the Southwest at St. Mary's University and then accepted a position in the Department of History. Poyo is currently Chair of the History Department and teaches courses in colonial and modern Latin American history as well as U.S. ethnic and immigration history and the history of Latino communities in the United States.
Roy E. Robbins
Chair of EconomicsAssistant Professor
Office: CF 222 Phone: (210) 431-6704
Email: rrobbins@stmarytx.edu Full Bio Details
M.A., St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas, 1976
M.T. (Master of Theology), Southern Methodist University, 1963
B.A., Southwestern University, 1960
Roy Robbins, Ph.D., has extensive experience in municipal governments in Texas and Virginia. He wrote first successful application for funding of a Public Works Impact Project for San Antonio, Texas. Approved by EDA to act as Economic Development Coordinator for City of San Antonio. He has also planned comprehensive human service programs including projects in health, welfare, crime reduction, youth activities, community development, education, manpower, and equal employment opportunities.
He is a member of the Association for Social Economics and the Southwest Association of Pre-Law Advisers.
M.T. (Master of Theology), Southern Methodist University, 1963
B.A., Southwestern University, 1960
Roy Robbins, Ph.D., has extensive experience in municipal governments in Texas and Virginia. He wrote first successful application for funding of a Public Works Impact Project for San Antonio, Texas. Approved by EDA to act as Economic Development Coordinator for City of San Antonio. He has also planned comprehensive human service programs including projects in health, welfare, crime reduction, youth activities, community development, education, manpower, and equal employment opportunities.
He is a member of the Association for Social Economics and the Southwest Association of Pre-Law Advisers.
Brian Toyne, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus International BusinessInternational Relations
Phone: (210) 431-4381
Email: btoyne@stmarytx.edu Full Bio Details
Ph.D., Georgia State University, 1975
A graduate of Georgia State University, Brian Toyne, Ph.D., is widely regarded as a leading scholar in international business. He is the author or co-author of ten books, dozens of refereed journal articles and other publications. In addition, he is a consultant to many schools on their internationalization efforts. Prior to joining St. Mary's University, he was director of the doctorate program in international business at the University of South Carolina.
Most recently, he was a past chair of the International Management Division, Academy of Management, a past vice-president of the Academy of International Business, former Fulbright Scholar to Colombia, associate editor of the Journal of International Business Studies and consultant to UNIDO. Toyne is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and active as a teacher, researcher and mentor.
A graduate of Georgia State University, Brian Toyne, Ph.D., is widely regarded as a leading scholar in international business. He is the author or co-author of ten books, dozens of refereed journal articles and other publications. In addition, he is a consultant to many schools on their internationalization efforts. Prior to joining St. Mary's University, he was director of the doctorate program in international business at the University of South Carolina.
Most recently, he was a past chair of the International Management Division, Academy of Management, a past vice-president of the Academy of International Business, former Fulbright Scholar to Colombia, associate editor of the Journal of International Business Studies and consultant to UNIDO. Toyne is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and active as a teacher, researcher and mentor.
Alejandro Velez, Ph.D.
ProfessorEconomics
International Business
Office: CF 214
Phone: (210) 436-3142
Email: avelez@stmarytx.edu Full Bio Details
Ph.D., The University of Florida, 1977
M.A., The University of Florida
B.A. , American University (School of International Service), 1963
Alejandro Velez is a professor of economics at St. Mary's and Director of the Latin American Studies Program. He teaches and researches in international economics and international business.
Dr. Velez is active in professional and business organizations concerned with international trade and business, including the San Antonio World Trade Association, the Academy of International Business, and the Latin American Studies Association. He can be heard and seen in TV and radio programs including the Voice of Americas, KTSA, Univision and Catholic Television of San Antonio. He regularly appears both English and Spanish newspapers. He frequently writes for scholarly publications and has published a chapter on NAFTA through MacMillan Press of the United Kingdom.
Dr. Velez was born in Colombia and has lived and worked in Mexico, Venezuela and Austria. He has conducted several seminars abroad, including a program on maquiladoras for the Long Term Credit Bank of Japan in Tokyo.
M.A., The University of Florida
B.A. , American University (School of International Service), 1963
Alejandro Velez is a professor of economics at St. Mary's and Director of the Latin American Studies Program. He teaches and researches in international economics and international business.
Dr. Velez is active in professional and business organizations concerned with international trade and business, including the San Antonio World Trade Association, the Academy of International Business, and the Latin American Studies Association. He can be heard and seen in TV and radio programs including the Voice of Americas, KTSA, Univision and Catholic Television of San Antonio. He regularly appears both English and Spanish newspapers. He frequently writes for scholarly publications and has published a chapter on NAFTA through MacMillan Press of the United Kingdom.
Dr. Velez was born in Colombia and has lived and worked in Mexico, Venezuela and Austria. He has conducted several seminars abroad, including a program on maquiladoras for the Long Term Credit Bank of Japan in Tokyo.
