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Professor

• Affiliation(s)

  • Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies

• Fields of Study

  • World Politics/International Relations
  • Comparative Government and Politics
  • Public Law

• Education

  • University of Michigan, Ph.D. (Political Science)
  • Cornell University, B.A. (Government)

• Awards

  • Presidents, Kings, Dictators, and War (with Michael Horowitz, Cambridge University Press, under contract)
  • Surrender, Desertion and World Politics (book project)

• Grants

  • NSF Grant for "Management of Complex Data Structures: Upgrades to EUGene Data Software" (2011-2014)
  • NSF Grant for "Human Development and Political Leadership: The Influence of Personal History on Foreign Policy Decision Making" (2009-2011)

• Presentations

  • Does Where You Stand Depend On If You Served: Military Service and International Conflict (with Michael Horowitz, MPSA, 2011)
  • Revolutionary Experience and Political Institutions: How Leaders' Life History Affects Public Policy (with Michael Horowitz, MPSA, 2010)
  • A Computer Simulation of Bargaining and the Nature of War (with D. Scott Bennett, International Studies Association, 2008)

• Selected Teaching

  • Forecasting Political Events and International Ethics
  • International Law
  • International Organization
  • International Political Economy

• Selected Publications:

• Books

  • (2004) The Behavioral Origins of War
  • (2002) Democracies at War

• Articles

  • (2012) Fear and Attitudes Towards Torture and Preventive War, Twin Research and Human Genetics
  • (2011) Domestic Institutions and Wartime Casualties, International Studies Quarterly