Graduate Courses
POLI 565: International Security.
POLI 571: Qualitative Methods.
POLI 563: Interstate Competition.
Resources
I have posted several documents on my faculty webpage which I am also making available here. I will post updates on this page.
Resources for writing: this is a document listing guides to effective writing.
Choosing a PhD in Political Science: this is a document providing some information and guidelines about the choice of a PhD program in Political Science. As I wrote this in May 2011, I have written a followup in February 2014 with some updated information which is here.
Graduate advising
As PhD supervisor (Date of completion)
Richard Togman (2016): Richard's dissertation explained why states expend significant resources on policies to manipulate birth rates (natalist policies) despite lots of evidence that these policies rarely work.
As PhD committee member (Date of completion)
Jon Gamu (2016): Jon's dissertation explains variation in the quality of security provision by corporate actors, specifically transnational mining companies in Peru.
As MA supervisor (Date of completion)
David Morgan (2011): David studied the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda.
Daniel Claybo (2011): Daniel compared counterinsurgency to community policing.
Scott Goosenberg (2012): Scott looked at different scenarios for the US invasion of Iraq.
Stephen Moncrief (2012): Stephen studied rebel group fragmentation in civil war.
Whitney Brown (2013): Whitney examined possible bargains between the United States and North Korea.
Meaghan Cooper (2013): Meaghan studied terrorist recruitment.
Frank Halderman (2013): Frank studied the Arab Spring.
Alicia Luedke (2013): Alicia studied patterns of sexual violence in civil war.
Omar Garcia (2016): Omar examined why there is little opposition to the development of hypersonic weapons.
Graeme Bant (2017): Graeme analyzed the conditions under which powerful democratic states prefer coups to elections in weaker democratic states.
Hyoung Rark Cho (2019): Hyoung studied if multilateral summits were effective, and how we would know if they were.
Michael Lenko (2023): Michael examined how the involvement of Private Military Companies affected conflict intensity in civil wars.