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• Patrick Armshaw (pca04c @ fsu.edu)
  • Started fall 2004.
  • Interests: Human Rights, International Political Economy.
• Andreas Beger (ab05h @ fsu.edu)
  • Started fall 2005.
  • Interests: Ethnic Conflict, Intranational Violent Conflict, Methods.
• Courtenay Ryals Conrad (cnr05e @ fsu.edu)
  • Started fall 2005.
  • Interests: Political Institutions, Human Rights, IOs and NGOs.
  • Dissertation: Constrained at Home: Domestic Mobilization, Institutions, and the Implementation of International Human Rights Law

    How do intra-regime dynamics affect state decisions to sign, ratify, and comply with international human rights law? Existing research in this area typically assume that the same domestic actors are responsible for treaty signing, ratification, and compliance. But under an individual government, the domestic actors responsible for treaty signing are rarely the same as those who are expected to ratify the treaty or comply with its terms. More importantly, these different actors often have divergent preferences about the extent to which they believe the state should internationally commit to respecting domestic human rights. In a three-paper dissertation, Ryals unpacks the interactions between domestic political institutions and pro-rights groups that affect state decisions to support human rights law.

• Daniel Hill (dwh06c @ fsu.edu)
  • Started fall 2006.
  • Interests: IR Conflict, Human Rights, Political Institutions, Methodology.
• Daniel Milton (djm07g @ fsu.edu)
  • Started fall 2007.
  • Interests: International Relations, Terror.
• Sunhee Park (sp04g @ fsu.edu)
  • Started fall 2004.
  • Interests: IR, Political Institutions, Civil War.
• Jeff Weber (jrw05g @ fsu.edu)
  • Started fall 2005.
  • Interests: Foreign Policy, Gambling for Resurrection, Terrorism.
  • Dissertation: From State Foreign Policy to Strategic Interaction

    The project investigates US foreign policy during 25 years of the Cold War, 1966-1992, and argues that the US Congress and the Soviet Union made strategic choices in response to the domestic political environment faced by the US President. The extant literature has appealed to strategic interaction to explain cases where conflict is avoided, yet it has not addressed the more interesting question of when, if ever, one should expect conflict to occur. To fill in this gap, Weber argues that partisanship influences the incentives leaders have to adopt dovish versus hawkish foreign policies. He distinguishes a leader's preferences (i.e., hawkish or dovish) from their strategic environment (i.e., domestic/international competition and electoral threat) to explain the ebb and flow of interactions between a leader in one state, and their competitors at home and abroad.

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

• Hong-Cheol Kim
• Liz Nyman
• Shawn Rowan
• John Sulick

• Robert L. Parrillo (rparrill @ aum.edu)
  • Ph.D. (8/09) FSU, Extradition Treaties: A Test of International Cooperation in the Enforcement of Domestic Criminal Law.
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor, Auburn University at Montgomery.
• 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 (8/09).
  • 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 (jkyoung @ siu.edu)
  • Ph.D. (8/08) FSU, The Process of Civil War: State Strength, Dissident Behavior and the Production of Violence
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University.
• Kürşad Turan (kursadturan @ gmail.com)
  • Ph.D. (4/05) FSU, Political Change in Ethnically Diverse Societies: Democratization and Ethnic Violence.
  • Current Position: Lecturer, Hacettepe University, Turkey.
  • 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: Assistant 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:
    • "Refugee or Internally Displaced Person? To Where Should One Flee?'' Will H. Moore and Stephen M. Shellman, Comparative Political Studies, August 2006, forthcoming.
    • "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.

• 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.
• Christopher Allen 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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