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Ph.D. Students Page

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• Andreas Beger (ab05h @ fsu.edu)
  • Started fall 2005.
  • Interests: Ethnic Conflict, Intranational Violent Conflict, Methods.
  • Dissertation: Predicting the intensity and location of violence in war

    The three projects in this dissertation examine aspects of violence that are not traditionally studied in cross-national conflict research, with an eye toward developing knowledge and methods that are useful to policymakers. One project addresses the relationship between troop levels, force characteristics, strategy, and the dynamics of violence during the occupation of Iraq. Using event and geospatial data with multilevel Bayesian statistical methods, the goal of the project is to add to our knowledge about what makes counterinsurgency effective or ineffective. Another project examines the relationship between measures of ethno-nationalist diversity and violent event data at a sub-national level (Bosnia) using geospatial data and GIS methods. The final project uses existing rational choice theories on why states tolerate the costs of war to generate statistical forecasting models of how deadly interstate wars will be, and evaluates their performance in and out of sample.

• Jillienne Haglund (jill.haglund @ gmail.com)
  • Started fall 2009.
  • Interests: Human Rights and political institutions.
• Christine Mele [co-Chair with David Siegel] (csm07f @ fsu.edu)
  • Started fall 2007.
  • Interests: Terrorism, intra- and interstate conflict, formal modeling.
  • Dissertation: Terrorism, Provocation, and Mobilization

    Why would a government respond to a provocative transnational or domestic terror attack with a counter-terror military strike if this means the terrorist group will benefit due to increased mobilization? To answer that question this dissertation examines the impact of terrorist group behavior on mobilization and mobilization's impact on counter-terrorism decisions. Employing formal modeling, descriptive case studies, and statistical analyses it conducts inquiry on three issues. First is the role of uncertainty regarding the terrorist's resource level and the impact this uncertainty plays on the decision to allocate resources to military actions or club goods for the terrorist and counter-terrorism or public goods for the government in an attempt to win the population. Second is the role domestic politics plays for the targeted government as it selects between defensive and offensive strategies. Third, the dissertation combines the first two analyses, extends the time horizon, and teases out the implications of this new model.

• Sunhee Park (sp04g @ fsu.edu)
  • Started fall 2004.
  • Interests: IR, Political Institutions, Civil War.
  • Dissertation: Third Party Peace Enforcement and Civil War Termination Bargaining

    Existing studies of civil war termination have exclusively focused on the factors that lead warring groups to begin negotiations and the outcomes of those negotiations, leaving unanswered an important question about warring groups' behavior at the bargaining table. Cases such as Sierra Leone indicate that groups make unexpected offers, thus raising a puzzle that motivates this project. Why would a stronger group ever make a smaller offer to itself, and why would a weaker group ever make a larger offer to itself than would be expected according to each group's relative power? And why do groups engaging in sequential bargaining change their bargaining behavior at different points in time? Park develops a general game theoretic bargaining model with a reneging option from which she draws a series of empirical implications concerning civil war termination bargaining. She then tests the hypotheses produced by the model using both large-N statistical analysis (1989-2008) and an in-depth case study of bargaining attempts during the Sierra Leone civil war from 1991 to 2002.

I am also serving as a committee member on the following students' dissertations:

• K. Russell Shekha (Sociology, FSU)
• John Sulick (Geography, FSU)

• Daniel W. Hill, Jr. (dwh06c @ fsu.edu)
  • Ph.D. (5/12) FSU, International Human Rights Law, Political Institutions, and Collective Behavior
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Georgia.
  • Joint Publication:
    • "Information Politics v Organizational Incentives: Are Amnesty International's "Naming and Shaming" Reports Biased?" Daniel W. Hill, Jr., Will H. Moore & Bumba Mukherjee, International Studies Quarterly, June, 2012.
• Daniel Milton (djm07g @ fsu.edu)
  • Ph.D. (5/12) FSU, Foreign Policy and Transnational Terrorism
  • Current Position: Visiting Professor, Brigham Young University.
• Patrick Armshaw (pca04c @ fsu.edu)
  • Ph.D. (5/11) FSU, Tortured Logic: Torture for Information as a Rational Process.
• Courtenay R. Conrad (courtenayconrad @ gmail.com)
  • Ph.D. (8/10) FSU, Constrained at Home: The Effect of Domestic and International Institutions on Domestic Respect for Human Rights
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
  • Joint Publication:
    • "What Stops the Torture?" Courtenay Ryals Conrad & Will H. Moore, American Journal of Political Science, 54(2): 459-476, 2010.
• Jeffrey R. Weber (weberj @ tcd.ie)
  • Ph.D. (8/10) FSU, From State Foreign Policy to Strategic Interaction
  • Current Position: Lecturer, Trinity College, University of Dublin.
• Robert L. Parrillo
  • Ph.D. (8/09) FSU, Extradition Treaties: A Test of International Cooperation in the Enforcement of Domestic Criminal Law.
  • Current Position: Full Sail University
• Jacqueline H.R. DeMeritt (jdemeritt @ unt.edu)
  • Ph.D. (5/09) FSU, Delegating Death: The Strategic Logic of Government Killing
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of North Texas.
  • Joint Publication:
    • "Risk Factors for Forced Migrant Flight," Jacqueline H. Rubin & Will H. Moore, Conflict Management & Peace Science, 24(2):85–-104, 2007.
• Joseph K. Young (jyoung @ american.edu)
  • Ph.D. (8/08) FSU, The Process of Civil War: State Strength, Dissident Behavior and the Production of Violence
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor, American University.
• Kürşad Turan (kursadturan @ gmail.com)
  • Ph.D. (4/05) FSU, Political Change in Ethnically Diverse Societies: Democratization and Ethnic Violence.
  • Current Position: Assitant Professor, Gazi University, Turkey, and Consultant to Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM).
  • Joint Publication:
    • "Ethnicity and Repression: The Ethnic Composition of Countries and Human Rights Violations," Chris Lee, Ronny Lindström, Will H. Moore and Kürşad Turan, in S.C. Carey & S.C Poe (eds) Understanding Human Rights Violations: New Systematic Studies, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004, pp. 186-201.
• Andrew G. Long (aglong @ ksu.edu)
  • Ph.D. (4/04) FSU, Bilateral Trade and Conflict: A Rational Expectations Model and Empirical Tests.
  • Current Position: Associate Professor, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.
• Stephen M. Shellman (smshel @ wm.edu)
  • Ph.D. (12/03) FSU, Taking Turns: A Theory and A Model of Government-Dissident Interactions, winner of the Peace Science Society's Isard Award for best dissertation, 2004.
  • Current Position: Research Associate, College of William & Mary and President & CEO, Strategic Analysis Enterprises, Inc.
  • Joint Publications:
    • "Whither Will They Go? A Global Analysis of Refugee Flows, 1955-95" Will H. Moore & Stephen M. Shellman, International Studies Quarterly, 51(4): 811-834, 2007.
    • "Refugee or Internally Displaced Person? To Where Should One Flee?'' Will H. Moore and Stephen M. Shellman, Comparative Political Studies, August 2006, 39(5):599-622.
    • "Fear of Persecution: Forced Migration, 1952-95,'' Will H. Moore and Stephen M. Shellman, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2004, 48(5):723-745.
• John A. Tures (jtures @ lagrange.edu)
  • Ph.D. (4/00) FSU, An Analysis of Regime Claims in the Americas, 1816-1992.
  • Current Position: Associate Professor, LaGrange College, LaGrange, GA.
• Ronny Lindström
  • Ph.D. (12/96) UC, Riverside, Private Goods and Collective Action: Overcoming the Large N Problem in Ethnic Conflict.
  • Current Position: United Nations Fund for Population Activities, New York, NY.
  • Joint Publications:
    • "Ethnicity and Repression: The Ethnic Composition of Countries and Human Rights Violations," Chris Lee, Ronny Lindström, Will H. Moore and Kürşad Turan, in S.C. Carey & S.C Poe (eds) Understanding Human Rights Violations: New Systematic Studies, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004, pp. 186-201.
    • "Land Reform, Political Violence and the Economic Inequality--Political Conflict Nexus: A Longitudinal Analysis,'' Will H. Moore, Ronny Lindström and Valerie O'Regan, International Interactions, 1996, 21(4): 335-363.
    • "Deprived, Rational or Both? 'Why Minorities Rebel' Revisited,'' Ronny Lindström and Will H. Moore, Journal of Political and Military Sociology, 1995, 23 (Winter):167-190.

• Justin Conrad
  • Ph.D. (8/11) FSU, Essays on Power, Resolve and International Conflict
• Elizabeth Nyman
  • Ph.D. (8/10) FSU, The Development and Settlement of International Maritime Claims
• Johann Pautz
  • Ph.D. (5/10) FSU, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Black Helicopters, Blue Helmets, White Fear: Anxiety of a Globalized World in the End Times Narratives of the American Far Right
• Hong-Cheol Kim
  • Ph.D. (5/10) FSU, The Paradox of Power in Conflict between the Strong and the Weak: When and Why Do Weaker States Challenge the Hegemon's International Status Quo?
• Ragnhild Nordås
  • Ph.D. (4/10) Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Beliefs & Bloodshed: Understanding Religion and Intrastate Conflict
• Clayton Thyne (clayton.thyne @ uky.edu)
  • Ph.D. (5/07) University of Iowa, Cheap Signals, Costly Consequences: How International Relations Affect Civil Conflict.
• Scott Edwards (scottisimo @ hotmail.com)
  • Ph.D. (5/07) University of Illinois, A Composite Theory and Practical Model of Forced Displacement.
• Michael E. Allison (allisonm3 @ scranton.edu)
  • Ph.D. (5/06) FSU, Leaving the Past Behind? A Study of the FMLN and URNG Transitions to Political Parties Degree.
• Chris Lee
  • Ph.D. (8/01) UC, Riverside, Protest and Repression: A Synthetic Model.
  • Joint Publication:
    • "Ethnicity and Repression: The Ethnic Composition of Countries and Human Rights Violations," Chris Lee, Ronny Lindström, Will H. Moore and Kürşad Turan, in S.C. Carey & S.C Poe (eds) Understanding Human Rights Violations: New Systematic Studies, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004, pp. 186-201.
• David H. Clark (dclark @ binghamton.edu)
  • Ph.D. (8/99) FSU, Institutions and Foreign Policy: The Impact of Selected and Selectoral Institutions on Economic and Military Conflict Behavior.
• Joseph D. Eyerman
  • Ph.D. (12/98) FSU, The Synthesis of Violence: The Role of Political Systems in the Production of International and Sub-National Political Violence.
• Chris McHorney
  • Ph.D. (6/97), UC, Riverside, Public Opinion and Regional Economic Integration: Explaining Popular Support for the European Union.
• Michelle Weber
  • Ph.D. (12/96) UC, Riverside, Native Wisdom: Indigenous Identity and Rural Community Action.

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