{"id":18442,"date":"2016-08-19T10:49:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T14:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=18442"},"modified":"2018-01-23T16:47:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T21:47:20","slug":"security-studies-students-impress-centcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/security-studies-students-impress-centcom\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Studies Students Impress at CENTCOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18443 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/08\/CENTCOM-e1471617691669.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/08\/CENTCOM-e1471617691669.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/08\/CENTCOM-e1471617691669-299x224.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Several students and faculty from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.graduatecatalog.ucf.edu\/programs\/program.aspx?id=10515\">UCF Security Studies Ph.D. program<\/a> visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centcom.mil\/#&amp;panel1-1\">U.S. Central Command<\/a> (CENTCOM) in Tampa to present their research on August 11, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>CENTCOM personnel expressed interest in the students\u2019 research, providing positive feedback and discussing collaboration on future events. UCF security studies doctoral student <a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/politicalscience\/people\/faherty-chelsey\/\">Chelsea Faherty<\/a> works full time at CENTCOM and organized the collaboration between her professional and academic colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Doctoral candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/politicalscience\/people\/smith-gary\/\">Gary Smith<\/a> described his work on the psychological traits of political leaders, which is based on a computerized analysis of large amounts of speeches from political leaders. These traits help explain the leaders\u2019 foreign policy decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Doctoral candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/politicalscience\/people\/schiel-rebecca\/\">Rebecca Schiel<\/a> presented her research that analyzes why some democracies are more prone to experience a coup d\u2019etat than others. Her work furthers the understanding of democratic stability and has important implications for foreign policy and foreign aid.<\/p>\n<p>Ph.D. student <a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/politicalscience\/people\/besaw-clayton\/\">Clayton Besaw<\/a> discussed his research on terrorism and violent extremism, which provides new insights into the level of violence exercised by extremist groups.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the doctoral candidates, <a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/politicalscience\/people\/tezcur-gunes\/\">G\u00fcne\u015f Murat Tezc\u00fcr, Ph.D.,<\/a> the Jalal Talabani Endowed Chair of <a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/politicalscience\/kps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kurdish Political Studies<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/politicalscience\/\">Department of Political Science<\/a>, presented his research on why individuals join insurgencies. His research is based on extensive field work and data from Kurdish insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>Several other Political Science faculty members joined the presenters at the event, which was attended by CENTCOM and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socom.mil\/default.aspx\">U.S. Special Operations Command<\/a> (SOCOM) personnel. The <a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/politicalscience\/\">UCF Political Science Department<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/politicalscience\/graduate\/\">Security Studies doctoral program<\/a> hope to continue collaborating with both CENTCOM and SOCOM with workshops in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several students and faculty from the UCF Security Studies Ph.D. program visited the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) in Tampa to present their research on August 11, 2016. CENTCOM personnel expressed interest in the students\u2019 research, providing positive feedback and discussing collaboration on future events. UCF security studies doctoral student Chelsea Faherty works full time at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":18443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[38,6,39,40,10,13,18,16,29],"tags":[580,625,691,924,1394,1502,1719,2833,3122,3439,3455,3616,3639],"class_list":["post-18442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-events","category-faculty-news","category-graduate-student-news","category-kurdish-political-studies-program","category-news","category-ps-phd-highlight","category-political-science-departments","category-ucf-news","tag-centcom","tag-chelsea-faherty","tag-clayton-besaw","tag-department-of-political-science","tag-gary-smith","tag-gunes-murat-tezcur","tag-jalal-talabani-endowed-chair-of-kurdish-political-studies","tag-rebecca-schiel","tag-socom","tag-u-s-central-command","tag-u-s-special-operations-command","tag-ucf-political-science-department","tag-ucf-security-studies-ph-d-program"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Security Studies Students Impress at CENTCOM - College of Sciences News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/security-studies-students-impress-centcom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Security Studies Students Impress at CENTCOM - College of Sciences News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Several students and faculty from the UCF Security Studies Ph.D. program visited the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) in Tampa to present their research on August 11, 2016. 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