I am a Professor in the Government and Politics Department at the
University of Maryland, College Park. In addition, I am a Research
Fellow in the Center for International Development and Conflict Managment and
the International Relations editor for the Journal of Politics.
My research
is on international politics, civil war, and foreign policy decision-making. I teach courses on international
relations, foreign policy, the United Nations, applied game theory, applied regression analysis, and applied maximum likelihood estimation.