My research interests include public opinion on foreign policy, leader reputation at home and abroad, and signaling and crisis behavior. My current research examines the role of the leader in support for military interventions, focusing in particular on how leaders build and erode their credibility with the public.
Dr. Ruhi Ramazani (1928–2016), Edward R. Stettinius Professor Emeritus of Government and Foreign Affairs, taught at the University of Virginia from 1953 to 1994. His first class was for a group of nine students, the first course ever offered on the Middle East at UVA. Born in Iran in 1928, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1952, initially studying at the University of Georgia, then graduating from the UVA with a Doctor of Science of Jurisprudence (in international relations and law) from the School of Law in 1954.
Subfields: International Relations, Methodology
Research Areas: Terrorism, Counterterrorism, Big Data, Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods, Deradicalization, Terrorist Group Recruiting, National Security Policy
I graduated in political science at the University of Bologna in 2013. At the University of Bologna my studies focused mostly on Italian electoral politics at the regional level. Over time, my main interests have shifted towards international relations. I received a MA in International Relations from the University of Bologna in 2016 and a MA in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics in 2017. I am particularly interested in the political economy of money and trade.
My research focuses on the intersection of civil war intervention and great powers’ foreign strategies, I aim to further develop a framework to reevaluate the U.N. and great powers’ intervention in civil wars, explaining why international intervention sometimes sent unclear signals and deteriorated the situations.
My research interests lie in domestic politics of foreign policy (both foreign policies at a strategic level and specific decisions in face of certain incidents). I would like to identify a range of critical players involved, and see how their interactions shape diplomatic decisions. I will also weave the implications of ongoing domestic transformations into the policy-making process. In the end, I wish to figure out the relevance between domestic variables (regime type, political system, domestic landscape of political power) and the foreign policy-making patterns of major powers.
Subfields: Comparative Politics, International Relations
Research Topic: Research & Development Policy, Globalization, Trade, International Political Economy,
I am interested in the inter-relationship of Russian defense policy and diplomacy, and how military priorities and deployments reflect Russia’s interests in the world. I would like to perform research on former Foreign Minister Andrey Kozyrev’s attempt to formulate and establish a liberal foreign policy in the early 1990s. Though this policy failed to take firm root in the Russian consciousness and was eventually replaced by the more independent Eurasianist vision, many of the issues the Russians struggled with in Primakov’s era are still present today.
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