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This dissertation describes the problem of violent ethnic conflict and genocide. The 20th century was marked by the deaths of over 100 million people in armed conflicts and another 170 million more in intrastate political violence. Terrorist attacks and responses to them and sta…

This dissertation explores the role of public opinion in U.S. presidential decisions to employ various alternatives in response to an international crisis. Presidents may choose from a range of force alternatives, including non-force alternatives, troop mobilizations, air strike…

This dissertation examines influence and decision-making within the transatlantic security regime, focusing on the four major member states of NATO. Two cases of post-Cold War transatlantic military intervention are examined in which regime member states sought to develop and ad…

Among the most important choices made by groups fighting a civil war—governments and rebels alike—is how to allocate available military and pecuniary resources across the contested areas of a conflict-ridden territory. Combatants use military force to coerce and money to persuad…

Derived from extensive work in archives across three American states, my research project, entitled “From Crying Blood to Capitalism: The Transition of Tribal Leadership in the Revolutionary Era,” is focused on the contributions of Native American tribal leadership to the founda…

This dissertation examines the effect of religion on the use of military force by states against other states. Despite a growing body of literature on religion and/in international relations, the topic remains under-studied and under-theorized; most of the literature focuses eit…