Department of Political Science

Political Science
1414 Social Sciences Building
267 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-624-4144
Fax: 612-626-7599
E-mail: polisci@umn.edu

Ron Krebs

Ronald R. Krebs
Associate Professor
1233 Social Sciences Bldg.
267 19th Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612.624.4356
Fax: 612.626.7599
email: rkrebs@umn.edu

 

Professor Ron Krebs (Ph.D., Columbia University, 2003) conducts research at the juncture of international relations and comparative politics, with a particular interest in the origins and consequences of international conflict and military service. His recently published book, Fighting for Rights: Military Service and the Politics of Citizenship (Cornell University Press, 2006), explores the conditions under which and the mechanisms through which military participation policies shape contestation over citizenship rights. He is currently working on two new major projects: (1) In the Shadow of War: International Conflict and Democratic Development, which explores the short-run and especially the long-run effects of international conflict on democratic institutions and processes; and (2) Rhetoric and the Making of US National Security, which seeks to explain the rise and fall of dominant national security narratives in the United States and to show how those narratives have shaped the policies the US government has pursued. (See the Publications and Work-in-Progress pages for Professor Krebs' other interests.)

Professor Krebs has published articles in International Organization, International Security, the European Journal of International Relations, Security Studies, the Journal of Strategic Studies, Survival, and Orbis, as well as in edited volumes. He is also the author of a historical monograph, Dueling Visions: U.S. Strategy Toward Eastern Europe Under Eisenhower (Texas A & M University Press, 2001).

Professor Krebs was a McKnight Land-Grant Professor at the University of Minnesota, 2006-2008. He has also been awarded research fellowships by, among other institutions, the Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellows Program at the University of Texas at Austin, the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, the United States Institute of Peace, the Institute for the Study of World Politics, and the Eisenhower World Affairs Institute. Prior to graduate school, he was an assistant editor at Foreign Affairs.

Ron Krebs' research interests include: international relations theory; international security; the sociology of war and military service; rhetorical contestation and framing; narratives; counterterrorism.

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