Assistant Professor

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

C.V.

Office Hours

Areas of Specialization:

• International Relations
• Causes and Spread of War
• Terrorism

Courses:

• POLSC 274: American Foreign Policy
• POLSC 282: International Security
• POLSC 283: Terrorism
• POLSC 377: Theories of International Relations
  
• POLSC 382: Causes of War
• POLSC 493: Conducting and Presenting Political Science Research
  

Education:
Ph.D. Columbia University, 2006.
M.Phil Columbia University, 2003.
M.A. Columbia University, 2001.
B.A. University of Michigan, 1999

Publications:

• "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.

• Is This a Private Fight or Can Anybody Join? The Spread of Interstate War. 2009. Aldershot, UK:  Ashgate.

• 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.

• “No:  The UN is limited in its ability to play a role,” 2009. In Debating Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism, Stuart Gottlieb, ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press. pp. 275–287.

• Shirkey, Zachary C., and Alex Weisiger, 2007. “An Annotated Bibliography for the Correlates of War Interstate Wars,” Availible on the Correlates of War Website.