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Security Studies Students Honored
Security Studies Ph.D. candidate Rebecca Schiel won the grand prize in the Jim Winkates Graduate Student Paper Competition, awarded by the International Studies Association’s Southern region. Schiel’s paper, titled “The Conditionality of Vulnerability,” seeks to explain why recent years have seen an increasing number of military coup attempts target democratic regimes rather than non-democratic regimes. […]
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Examining the Effects of Demanding the Impossible
With primary research interests focusing in international relations and security studies, Dr. Thomas Dolan recently published an article: Demanding the Impossible: War, Bargaining, and Honor. Published in Security Studies, the article makes contributions beyond the study of war. Dr. Dolan showcases common themes in international politics and concentrates on decision-making during war, with emphasis on the effects of […]
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The Emotional War – How Bad News Effects Decision Making
“Emotion and Strategic Learning in War” an article recently published by Assistant Professor Thomas Dolan. The article was published in the International Studies Association Journal Foreign Policy Analysis. Dr. Dolan explores the hypothesis that anger and anxiety—responses to different kinds of bad news—determine whether leaders alter their war aims or strategies, or decide to ‘stay the course’. The […]
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Political Science Faculty Receive Undergraduate Teaching Award
On Founder’s Day, April 2nd, 2014, two of our faculty members were honored with awards in Undergraduate Teaching by the College of Sciences. We would like to congratulate them, and we are proud to have them as part of the department. Dr. Drew Lanier, Associate Professor: Dr. Lanier’s teaching focuses on American political institutions, particularly […]