International Relations

	Deborah Avant is the Director of International Studies. Her research has focused on civil-military relations, military change, and the politics of controlling violence. Her current research focuses on how the US government’s use of private security has affected democratic processes in the United States, how private actors conceptualize and implement security in weak states and the way different non state actors govern on the global stage. Professor Avant chairs the International Security Studies Section of the ISA, is an active member of the executive board of Women in International Security (WIIS), and serves on the editorial boards of several journals including the American Political Science Review and Security Studies.
	Alison Brysk's research focuses on human rights, transnationalism, civil society, constructivism, and Latin American politics. Her most recent publication is Human Rights and Private Wrongs, and she is the editor of Globalization and Human Rights.
	Helen Ingram is the Warmington Chair of Peace and International Security in Social Ecology. Her scholarship and graduate courses in the Department investigate the rise of environmental politics and policies within the international sphere.
	Cecelia Lynch is the Director of the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies (GPACS). She is also a member of the International Studies faculty. Her research and teaching interests include International Relations Theory, International Organization and Law, International Ethics and Political Philosophy, Social Movements in World Politics, and Peace and Security. Lynch is the author of the prize-winning book, Beyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in World Politics (Cornell University Press 1999).
	Richard Matthew's research focuses on international relations in the developing world, notably South Asia. He has published widely on transnational security threats and environmental security and sustainability issues.
	Pat Morgan is the Tierney Chair for Peace & Conflict. His research concentrates primarily on national and international security matters including deterrence theory, arms control, and related subjects. He is also engaged in research on the practice of deterrence in the post-Cold War era, security strategies for global security management, and security in Northeast Asia. His publications include Deterrence Now (Cambridge University Press 2003).
	Kamal Sadiq specializes in Comparative Politics, Immigration and International Security with a particular emphasis on developing countries. Specifically, his research focuses on immigration from and within developing countries, security implications of global criminal flows, ethnic conflict, Asian security, and International Relations theory. His regional expertise is in Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia, Southern Philippines) and South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh).
	Wayne Sandholtz research and teaching interests include the comparative study of corruption, the development of international norms, and the development of supranational governance in the European Union. Previous publications by Sandholtz have focused on the politics of European integration, including work on integration theory, high-technology cooperation, telecommunications, and monetary union.
	Caesar Sereseres also teaches in the international relations curriculum both in the Department and the International Studies Program. He has specific research and teaching interests in U.S. foreign policy strategy in Mexico and Central America, revolutionary guerilla insurgency, and civil-military relations in Latin America.
	Etel Solingen is a distinguished scholar in the fields of international relations, political economy, and international security. Her research focuses on the evolving connections between domestic and international politics, and the inextricable relationship between political economy and security. Solingen is the author of several books, including Regional Orders at Century's Dawn: Global and Domestic Influences on Grand Strategy (Princeton University Press, 1998)
	Robert Uriu is also jointly appointed in the International Studies Program. Uriu's scholarship includes international political economy and international relations theory through the case of U.S.-Japan relations.