I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political
Science at the University of
California, Los Angeles, with subfields in international relations,
quantitative analysis and formal theory. 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.
In the past, my work 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, and the UCLA
Graduate Division.
In the spring 2007 quarter, I designed and taught an upper-division
undergraduate
seminar at
UCLA entitled Third Parties in International Conflict Management. The
course surveyed major topics in the study of third-party involvement in
international conflicts, including mediation, military and economic
coercion, military intervention, peacekeeping, and inaction.
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