His professional and political activities involving social movements and corporate power place him on the cutting-edge of socially informed and politically relevant scholarship. Professor Dreiling's most recently published work on corporate networks and international trade is highly acclaimed for revealing the corporate penetration of the U.S. trade policy process. Other research includes publications on the mobilization of labor and environmentalists against NAFTA, the corporate political defense of the NAFTA as well as a book on the politics of international trade. At the University of Oregon, he is an award-winning teacher with courses on U.S. labor movements, social movements, environmentalism, and American society.