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
Foreign Policy
Military Intervention
War Duration
Terrorism and Counterterrorism

Courses:

Undergraduate:
POLSC 274: American Foreign Policy
POLSC 283: Terrorism
POLSC 375: International Law
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
PSC 86207: Causes of War

Selected Publications:

A full list of publications can be found here.

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

Books:

• American Dove: US Foreign Policy and the Failure of Force. Forthcoming (Nov. 2020). (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press).
• 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," 2020. Conflict Management and Peace Science 37(2): 133–51.
• "Challenges to the Study of Long Wars," 2018. Polity. 50(2): 225–37.
• 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): 571–5.
• "Joining By Number: Military Intervention in Civil Wars," 2016. Civil Wars 18(4): 417–38.
• "Uncertainty and War Duration," 2016. International Studies Review 18(2): 244–67.
• "When and How Many: The Effects of Third Party Joining on Casualties and Duration in Interstate Wars," 2012. Journal of Peace Research 49(2): 321–34.
• 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,” 2018. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations Theory, William R. Thompson (ed.)., v.2., Oxford: Oxford University Press: 534–49.
• "No: International organizations are limited in their ability to combat terrorism," 2014. In Debating Terrorism and Counterterrorism, 2nd Ed., Stuart Gottlieb (ed.). Washington: CQ Press: 279–91.
• “No:  The UN is limited in its ability to play a role,” 2009. In Debating Terrorism and Counterterrorism, 1st Ed., Stuart Gottlieb, (ed.). Washington: CQ Press: 275–87.

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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