The Dog that Barks: State Propaganda Campaigns on Territorial Disputes
John M. Owen (chair), Brantly Womack, Philip Potter
2019
Postdoctoral fellow, Notre Dame International Security Center, University of Notre Dame
2018
Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies, George Washington University
2017
Minerva-USIP Peace Scholar
Innovating in War: Risk, Organizational Cost, and Successful Adoption
Phil Potter (Chair); Jeffrey Legro; John Owen; Allan Stam
Chief, Future Operations
U.S. Army Futures and Concepts Center, Fort Eustis, VA
2019
Tagging Along: Limited Contributions to Multinational Military Coalitions
Philip Potter (chair), Dale Copeland, John Owen
Derek Ray is a PhD candidate and United States Air Force Chief of Staff Strategic PhD Program Scholar. His research focuses on explaining variation among state contributions to contemporary military coalitions. His research interests include alliance politics, military coalition effectiveness, U.S. Intelligence Community policy, and nuclear non-proliferation issues.
Chen Wang is a PhD candidate in the Politics Department at the University of Virginia. He received B.A. in Economics and M.A. in International Economics from the University of International Relations (China) and M.S. in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on international security, terrorism, and Chinese politics. His dissertation explores the impact of leadership turnovers on interstate relations. In his work, he applies a variety of methods, including statistical analysis, formal modeling, machine learning, and archival works.
I’m interested in globalization, trade and security in the Indo-Pacific. I hope to focus my research on China’s economic and naval interactions with countries in the Indian Ocean region such as Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. I am also interested in how the conditions of complex economic integration make trade more resilient, or more fragile and vulnerable to disruption by state actors.
“Socializing Militants: How States End Asymmetric Conflict with Non-state Opponents”
National Security Analyst at the Association of the U.S. Army.
My research interests include: Security and strategic studies, the politics of resource and trade/shipping route security, global counterterrorism and counter insurgency, Middle East politics and the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the role of governmental messages and media approach/framing during the build up to a war deemed necessary or unavoidable.
My core interests are war-making and war makers. My current research projects concern reactionary extremisms, institutions of social control in the military, and the effects of external social forces on military organizations.
My main areas of study include the intersection of international war, coercive bargaining, and crisis escalation. I am interested in how leaders interpret signals and intentions of adversaries during international crises, and how this leads to inadvertent crisis escalation. I received a MA in International Relations from Seoul National University in 2019.
My research interests include deterrence, nuclear politics and military strategy.
David Stiefel is a graduate student in the doctoral program for Foreign Affairs; majoring in International Relations and minoring in American Politics. David earned his BS in Geology & Environmental Sciences, Media Arts & Design, and Jazz Studies from James Madison University (’07) and a MS from Georgetown University in Biohazardous Threat Agents and Emerging Infections Disease (’15). David has worked as an environmental consultant, professional musician, a defense contractor for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, a landscape conservationist, and a Presidential Management Fellow
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