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EDUCATION
Ph.D., Political Science (expected 2007), School of Politics and Economics, Claremont Graduate University
M.A., International Studies, School of Politics and Economics, Claremont Graduate University, May 2003
B.S., Political Science, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University, March 1998
WORKSHOPS AND ADDITIONAL TRAINING
10th Annual Winter Institute in International Relations, Program in Foreign Policy Decision-Making, Texas A & M University, January 11-15 2006: Operational Code Analysis and World Politics with Stephen G. Walker
International Studies Association Workshop (by invitation only): “Cooperation, Collective Action and Non-State Actors in Eurasia/Middle East Relations”, Institute for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego, March 21, 2006
10th Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS): sponsored by Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies, Cornell University, July 9-28, 2006
DISSERTATION TITLE
“THE EVOLUTION OF STATE SYSTEMS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF STATE FORMATION AND CONFLICT PROCESSES IN DEVELOPING REGIONS”
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
World Politics:
• Foreign Policy Analysis
• Defense and Security Policy
• International and Domestic Conflict Processes
• International Relations of the Developing World
• Political Geography and Demographics
Comparative Politics:
• Politics of Developing Nations
• Theories of State Formation and Failure
• Formal/Informal Institutions and Political Development
• Authoritarian Regimes
• Middle East and North Africa/ Soviet Successor States
EXPERIENCE
Certificate of Completion, Caucasian Review of International Affairs Mobile Internship, October-November, 2007
Data Analyst, Illicit Arms Transfer Database Project, Division of Political Science, Portland State University, Winter 2007-
Research Associate, Issue Correlates of War (ICOW) Project, Middle Eastern Territories and River Disputes, Florida State University, Fall 2006-
Academic affiliate, Mindanao Research Agenda, Third World Studies Center, University of the Philippines-Diliman: arms trade and internal and external security in Mindanao region, Spring 2005-
Research Assistant to David Kinsella, Division of Political Science, Portland State University: Social Network Analysis of the International Arms Trade, independent project; development of coding scheme for Illicit Arms Transfers (IAT) Dataset, Winter-Spring 2004
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
“Illicit Arms Transfers: Linking Weapons Characteristics and Strategic Applications”, forthcoming, Defense and Security Analysis, Vol. 23, Issue 4, March 2008
“Fourth Generation Conflict? Local Social Formations and Insurgencies in Post-Ba’ath Iraq”, Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. XXIV, No. 2, Fall 2007, pp. 27-44
“Modeling Middle East Security: A Formal Assessment of Regional Responses to the Iraq War” (with Lewis W. Snider), Conflict Management and Peace Science, Vol. 23, No. 3, Fall 2006, pp. 211-226
“Tools of Political Management in the New Central Asian Republics”, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Special Issue on State, Society and Islam in Central Asia, Vol. 26, No. 1, April 2006, pp. 87-99
Research Notes: “Public Spending, “Incorporation Effects”, and State-Building Strategies in Post-Soviet Central Asia”, Journal of Central Asian Studies, Vol. V, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2001), pp. 58-61
Articles and Chapters in Edited Volumes:
“Former Soviet Republics” (with Adil T. Baguirov), in International Security and the United States, Vol. I, Karl DeRouen and Paul Bellamy, eds. Greenwood Publishing Group (Praeger Security International), 2007, pp. 266-284.
“Iraq: 1961-75, 1988-94”, in Civil Wars of the World: Major Conflicts since World War II, Vol. 2, Karl DeRouen and Uk Heo, eds. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2007, pp. 443-458
“Armed Forces of the People”, “Counterinsurgency”, “Coup d’Etat”, “Military and Civilian Control” and “War and Development”, entries in Encyclopedia of the Developing World, 3 vols, ed. Thomas Leonard, New York: Routledge, 2006, pp. 87-88, 404-406, 408-410, 1046-1048, 1676-1680
“Ethnic Nationalist and Religious Movements as Substitute States: An Analytical Framework”, in Nationalisms Across the Globe: An Overview of Nationalisms in State-Endowed and Stateless Nations, Vol. I, Europe, Wojciech J. Burszta, Tomasz Kamusella and Sebastian Wojciechowski, eds. Poznan, Poland: School of Humanities and Journalism, 2005, pp. 81-96
Book Reviews
“The Social Context of War and Peace”: solicited review of No Peace, No War: An Anthropology of Contemporary Armed Conflicts, Paul Richards, ed., International Studies Review, Vol. 7, Issue 3, October 2005, p. 475-477 (cited in African Guerillas: Raging Against the Machine, Mørten Boas and Kevin C. Dunn, eds., Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007, p. 4)
Review of Diplomacy and Developing Nations: Post-Cold War Foreign Policy-Making Structures and Processes, Justin Robertson and Maurice A. East, eds., International Affairs, July 2006, pp. 705-6
MEMBERSHIPS:
American Political Science Association
International Studies Association
Peace Science Society (International)
Committee for the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy
Central Eurasian Studies Society
Association of Third World Studies
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Autocratic Evolution: Turkmenistan’s Public Polices and Political Institutions in the Central Asian Context”, 8th Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Conference, University of Washington, Seattle WA, October 19-21, 2007
Co-organizer, panel on “Analytical Approaches to Middle East /Central Asia IR”, 5th Annual Middle East and Central Asia Politics, Economics and Society Conference, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, September 6-8, 2007
“Generalizing Topography and Warfare in Third World Conflicts: 1950-2000”, 7th International Conference on Military Geology and Geography, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, CA, June 18-21, 2007
“Political Succession as State Consolidation in Turkmenistan, 2006-2007”, 13th Annual Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies Northwest Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, April 14, 2007
Discussant, “Contemporary Global Issues”, International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, February 28-March 3, 2007
“People, Terrain and Taxation: Internal Power Projection and the Governability of Developing States”, International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, February 28-March 3, 2007
“Geographic Preludes to State Failure: Identifying Structural Challenges to the Governability of Post-Colonial States”, The Idea of a Failed State: Interdisciplinary Theories and Application, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA, October 12-14, 2006
“State-Building Under Fire: The Transformation of Palestinian Politics through the Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations” with Lewis W. Snider and Cheryl Van Den Handel, International Studies Association 47th Annual Convention, San Diego, CA, March 22-25, 2006
Mapping Informal Security Associations: Alliances as Social Networks”, International Studies Association 47th Annual Convention, San Diego, CA, March 22-25, 2006
“Rentiers or Rational Autocrats? Public Expenditures, Informal Institutions and State Consolidation in Post-Soviet Central Asia”, 3rd Annual Middle East and Central Asia Politics, Economics and Society Conference, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, September 8-10, 2005
“Adversarial State-Building: The Nature of the Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations” with Lewis W. Snider and Cheryl Van Den Handel, International Studies Association 46th Annual Convention, Honolulu, HI, March 1-5, 2005
“Palestine’s Emerging Winning Coalition and Its Politics Toward a Two-State Solution” with Lewis W. Snider and Cheryl van den Handel, 38th North American Meeting of the Peace Science Society (International), Houston, TX, November, 12-14, 2004
“‘Rogue Regimes’ or Dissatisfied Autocracies? Domestic Covariates of Revisionist Interstate Disputes”, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, March 11-13 2004
“Extending the Rentier-State Thesis: Distributive Economies, Political Indifference and State Formation in the Developing World”, International Studies Association 44th Annual Convention, Portland, OR, February 25-March 1, 2003
“Far Beyond Westphalia: Distributive Economies and Incomplete State Formation in Central Asia”, International Studies Association-West Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, October 11-13, 2002
“Economic Depression and Conflict Among Contiguous States”, International Studies Association-West Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, October 11-13 2002
“State Decline and the Rise of Substitute Structures: Ethno-Nationalist and Religious Movements as Alternate Forms of Legitimacy”, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, March 22-24, 2002
“Operationalizing Contextual Difference: Cultural-Rationality Models and Assessing the Foreign Policies of Developing States”, SPE Student Conference, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, March 24, 2001
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