I am a professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and a Global Security Fellow with the Howard Baker Center for Public Policy. My research and teaching interests revolve around the conditions associated with political violence.  Currently I am working on three research projects. The first addresses the structural and geo-spatial conditions associated with modern maritime piracy. This project was funded by the Office of Naval Research through the Minerva Research Initiative. The second project explores the efficacy of UN peacekeeping operations. The third project explores the principal drivers of domestic terrorism in democratic states. 

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Currently I am serving as Lead Editor for International Studies Quarterly.