Rosella Cappella Zielinski
Associate Professor of Political Science; Director of Graduate Studies
Rosella Cappella Zielinski is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and in the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, specializing in the study of political economy of security. Her book How States Pay for Wars (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016) won the 2017 American Political Science Association Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award in International History and Politics. She recently published Wheat at War: Allied Economic Cooperation in the Great War (Oxford University Press, 2025). Her other works can be found in Conflict Management and Peace Science, European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Global Security Studies, Journal of Peace Research, and Security Studies, as well as Foreign Affairs, Texas National Security Review, and War on the Rocks. She has held fellowships at the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College and the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a non-resident fellow at the Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Creativity at Marine Corps University and affiliated with the Costs of War Project.
In addition to her academic research, she is committed to promoting the study of political economy of national security. She is the founder and Co-Director of Boston University’s Project for the Political Economy of Security. Join their mailing list here!