Department · vaiu-soc-poli-*
Political institutions, behavior, and theory across domestic and international arenas, including comparative politics, security, and formal and quantitative political methodology.
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Department chair
Comparative Politics
Democratization, authoritarian regimes, and comparative political institutions.
Professor
IR Theory & Global Order
International relations theory, international organizations, and diplomacy & global governance.
Professor
International Security
Security studies, conflict & civil war, and nuclear strategy & deterrence.
Professor
Political Theory
History of political thought, democratic theory, and justice & political ethics.
Professor
Political Behavior & Institutions
Electoral behavior, public opinion, and legislative & executive politics.
Professor
Political Methodology
Causal inference in politics, formal modeling, and text-as-data & computational politics.
Professor
International Political Economy
Trade politics, global financial governance, and politics of globalization.
