Security Studies

The Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy seeks outstanding graduate students to apply for the Dean’s Scholar Award in Security Studies.  This field includes research and coursework on topics such as interstate wars, civil wars, crisis management, ethnic conflict, alliances, international organizations, international law, arms control, weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, disaster response, civil liberties, political extremism, and political stability.

The University at Albany has a dynamic group of faculty members researching critical issues in the field of Security Studies, including:

Selected Publications in Security Studies:

Victor Asal, Brian Nussbaum, and William Harrington. 2006. “Terrorist Transnational Activist Networks.” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism (forthcoming).

Thomas A. Birkland. 2006. Lessons of Disaster: Policy Change After Catastrophic Events. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.

Rey Koslowski. 2006. “Border and Transportation Security in the Transatlantic Relationship.” In Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen and Daniel Hamilton, eds., Transatlantic Homeland Security: Protecting Society in the Age of Catastrophic Terrorism.Routledge.

David L. Rousseau. 2005. Democracy and War: Institutions, Norms, and the Evolution of International Conflict.  Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Thomas C. Walker (with Benjamin Fordham). 2005. “Kantian Liberalism, Regime Type, and Military Resource Allocation: Do Democracies Spend Less?” International Studies Quarterly, 49/2 (March): 141-157.