I am a political scientist with subfields in international relations, quantitative analysis and formal theory. In the 2008-2009 academic year, I have served as a pre-doctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science at Yale University and a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
In my research, I focus on crisis bargaining, international conflict management, and third-party intervention in international disputes. I examine how powerful states, acting as third parties in international crises, can leverage their superior military strength to manipulate the disputed parties' cost-benefit calculus. In this context, I study how an intervening state's ability to convey credible threats of force affects its choice of crisis management technique and the likelihood of a peace agreement. I use game theoretic modeling, quantitative analyses, and primary source evidence I collected in the Balkans.
My work will appear in the May 2009 issue of the American Political Science Review. In the past, my research has been supported by the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, the UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations, the U.S. Department of Education's Foreign Language and Area Studies Program, the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, the UCLA and Yale departments of political science and the Yale Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.
I have taught undergraduate and graduate courses on the topics of third-party intervention, U.S. foreign policy, and war and peace. To learn more about my research and teaching, or to access my curriculum vitae and contact information, please click on the tabs in the upper left corner of this page.