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Michael J. Reese

Hello, my name is Michael Joseph Reese and I study international politics here at The Ohio State University. A native of Wisconsin originally, I received my B.A. from Lawrence University and my M.A. and Ph.D. from Ohio State. After successfully defending my dissertation this winter, I am currently an instructor with Ohio State’s International Studies Program. My primary academic interests in the field of Political Science revolve around the subjects of International Security, Comparative Politics, and Foreign Policy.

I am specifically interested in asymmetric conflict, terrorism, American foreign policy, theories of international security, international crises, comparative politics, developing world issues, intersections between domestic and international politics, the politics of authoritarian regimes, theories of empire, security communities, and identity theory. Over the past five years, I have written on the ideology of hegemonic powers, the stability of security communities, the foreign policy of George W. Bush, and the attributes of authoritarian political systems. My work on George W. Bush’s foreign policy, in collaboration with Richard K. Herrmann, was published by CQ Press in 2004. My dissertation project, which I am currently re-working into a book manuscript, explores a relatively overlooked phenomenon: the asymmetric international crisis.

All of these very diverse projects are related to a core intellectual agenda: the desire to understand how the “South,” or developing world, can achieve security in a world dominated by the much richer and more powerful “North.”