Associate Professor

Office: 1718A HW
Phone: 212-772-5503
Email:zshirkey@hunter.cuny.edu

C.V.

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Education:

Ph.D. Columbia University, 2006
B.A. University of Michigan, 1999

Areas of Specialization:
International Relations
Military Intervention
War Duration and Causes of War
Terrorism and Counterterrorism

Courses:

Undergraduate:
POLSC 274: American Foreign Policy
POLSC 283: Terrorism
POLSC 382: Causes of War
POLSC 384: Comparative Foreign Policy
POLSC 493: Conducting and Presenting Political Science Research

Graduate:
PSC 76000: Basic Concepts and Theories of International Relations

Selected Publications:

A full list of publications and working papers can be found by clicking here.

Some of the following works are available, open access, in the CUNY Academic Works repository and on ResearchGate.

Books:

• Savic, Ivan and Zachary C. Shirkey. 2017. Uncertainty, Threat, and International Security: Implications for Southeast Asia. (London: Routledge).
• Joining the Fray: Military Intervention in Civil Wars. 2012. (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate).
• Is This a Private Fight or Can Anybody Join? The Spread of Interstate War. 2009. (Aldershot, UK:  Ashgate).

Articles:

• "Which Wars Spread? Commitment Problems and Military Intervention," Forthcoming. Conflict Management and Peace Science.
• "Challenges to the Study of Long Wars," 2018. Polity. 50(2):.
• Lee, Michael and Zachary C. Shirkey. 2017. "Going Beyond the Existing Consensus: The Use of Games in International Relations Education," PS: Political Science & Politics 50(2): 571–75.
• "Joining By Number: Military Intervention in Civil Wars," 2016. Civil Wars 18(4): 417–438.
• "Uncertainty and War Duration," 2016. International Studies Review 18(2): 244–267.
• "When and How Many: The Effects of Third Party Joining on Casualties and Duration in Interstate Wars," 2012. Journal of Peace Research 49(2): 321–334.
• Savic, Ivan, and Zachary C. Shirkey. 2009. “Trust in the Balance: The Role of Commitment Problems in Shaping External Balancing Behavior,” Journal of Theoretical Politics 21(4): 483–507.

Book Chapters:

• "Military Intervention in Interstate and Civil Wars: A Unified Interpretation,” 2017. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations Theory, William R. Thompson, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• "No: International organizations are limited in their ability to combat terrorism," 2013. In Debating Terrorism and Counterterrorism, 2nd Ed., Stuart Gottlieb ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press: 279–291.
• “No:  The UN is limited in its ability to play a role,” 2009. In Debating Terrorism and Counterterrorism, 1st Ed., Stuart Gottlieb, ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press: 275–287.

Data:

• Unexpected Events in Interstate Wars Data Set:
  COW Interstate Wars Data Set
  Coding appendix
  Citation: Shirkey, Zachary C. 2009. Is This a Private Fight or Can Anybody Join? The Spread of Interstate War (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate).
• Unexpected Events in Civil Wars Data Sets:
  COW Civil Wars Data Set
  PRIO Civil Wars Data Set
  Coding appendix
  Citation: Shirkey, Zachary C. 2016. "Joining By Number: Military Intervention in Civil Wars," Civil Wars 18(4): 417–438.

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