Department of Political Science

Political Science
1414 Social Sciences Building
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Minneapolis, MN 55455

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

Ron Krebs

Books

In War's Wake: International Conflict and the Fate of Liberal Democracy. Edited with Elizabeth Kier. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Fighting for Rights: Military Service and the Politics of Citizenship. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.
Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, edited by Robert J. Art, Robert Jervis, and Stephen M. Walt.

Dueling Visions: U.S. Strategy Toward Eastern Europe Under Eisenhower. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2001. Series: Foreign Relations and the Presidency, No. 7, edited by H.W. Brands.

 

Articles in Refereed Journals

“International Relations and the Psychology of Time Horizons.” With Aaron Rapport. International Studies
Quarterly
56:3 (September 2012): forthcoming.

“Striking the Right Balance: Of High Walls and Divisions of Labor.” Perspectives on Politics 8:4 (December 2010): 1113-1116.

“Talking about Terror: Counterterrorist Campaigns and the Logic of Representation.” With Arjun Chowdhury. European Journal of International Relations 16:1 (March 2010): 125-150.

"The False Promise of the Nobel Peace Prize." Political Science Quarterly 124:4 (winter 2009-2010): 593-625.

“Making and Mobilizing Moderates: Rhetorical Strategy, Political Networks, and Counterterrorism.” With Arjun Chowdhury. Security Studies 18:3 (fall 2009): 371-399.

"The Citizen-Soldier Tradition in the United States: Has its Demise been Greatly Exaggerated?" Armed Forces & Society 36:1 (October 2009): 153-174.

“In the Shadow of War: The Effects of Conflict on Liberal Democracy.” International Organization 63:1 (winter 2009): 177-210.

“Fixing the Meaning of 9/11: Hegemony, Coercion, and the Road to War in Iraq.” With Jennifer K. Lobasz. Security Studies 16:3 (July-September 2007): 409-451.

“Twisting Tongues and Twisting Arms: The Power of Political Rhetoric.” With Patrick T. Jackson. European Journal of International Relations 13:1 (March 2007): 35-66.

“One Nation Under Arms? Military Participation Policy and the Politics of Identity.” Security Studies 14:3 (spring 2005): 529-564.

“Correspondence: Selling the Market Short? The Marketplace of Ideas and the Iraq War.” International Security 29:4
(spring 2005): 196-202.

“A School for the Nation? How Military Service Does Not Build Nations, and How It Might.” International Security 28:4 (spring 2004): 85-124. {summarized and reviewed in “Military Myths,” The Wilson Quarterly 28:4 (autumn 2004): 93-94.}

“A Debate Miscast, or What Can We Learn From the Case of the EDC?” Security Studies 11:3 (spring 2002): 188-199.

“Perverse Institutionalism: NATO and the Greco-Turkish Conflict.” International Organization 53:2 (spring 1999): 343-377.

“Fuelling Aegean Fires: A Cautionary Tale for NATO Enlargement?” The Harriman Review 11:1-2 (1998): 12-20.

“Liberation à la Finland : Reexamining Eisenhower Administration Objectives in Eastern Europe.” Journal of Strategic Studies 20:3 (September 1997): 1-26.

Articles in Non-Refereed Outlets

“Israel’s Bunker Mentality: How the Occupation is Destroying the Nation.” Foreign Affairs 90:6 (November/December 2011): 10-18.

“Israel’s Occupational Burdens.” International Herald Tribune, 25 October 2011.

“ ‘War on Terror’ Finally Over.” Minneapolis Star Tribune, 11 September 2011.

“You’ve Won the Nobel Peace Prize. I’m So Sorry.” Washington Post, 10 October 2010.

“Après Louis, Hamid: The Afghan Challenge is Far Tougher.” With Arjun Chowdhury. Foreign Affairs 89:4 (July/August 2010): 169-171.

"Winning the Prize, Losing the Peace." Washington Post, 11 October 2009.

"Dangerous Prize." Foreign Policy (web exclusive), posted 30 July 2009, re-posted 9 October 2009.

“Think Again: Barack Obama and the War on Terror.” With David M. Edelstein. Foreign Policy (web exclusive), posted 19 January 2009.

“Rethinking the Battle of Ideas: How the United States Can Really Help Muslim Moderates.” Orbis 52:2 (spring 2008): 332-346.

“Where Are This War's Winter Soldiers? Why Iraq War Veterans Have Not Had Much Impact on the Debate Over the War.” Slate, posted 7 March 2008.

“Cruel to be Kind: Why Washington Should Not Reach Out to Muslim Moderates.” Slate, posted 3 January 2008.

“The Quest for the Holy Sale: Washington 's Troubling Obsession with Public Diplomacy.” With David M. Edelstein. Survival 47:1 (spring 2005): 89-104.

“It's Time To Get Out of Iraq,” Chicago Tribune , 3 January 2005 . With David M. Edelstein.

Essays in Edited Volumes

“International Conflict and the Constitutional Balance: Executive Authority After War.” In Elizabeth Kier and Ronald R. Krebs, eds., In War’s Wake: International Conflict and the Fate of Liberal Democracy, 187-210. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

“Introduction: War and Democracy in Comparative Perspective.” With Elizabeth Kier. In Elizabeth Kier and Ronald R. Krebs, eds., In War’s Wake: International Conflict and the Fate of Liberal Democracy, 1-20. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

“Living in Alternate Universes: Divergent Narratives and the Challenge of US-Russian Relations Since the Cold War.” ITimothy Colton, Tim Frye, and Robert Legvold, eds., The Policy World Meets Academia: Designing U.S. Policy Toward Russia, 20-36. Cambridge: American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2010.

“The Enduring Citizen-Soldier Tradition in the United States.” In Stuart A. Cohen, ed., The New Citizen Armies: Israel’s Armed Forces in Comparative Perspective, 7-31. Oxford: Routledge, 2010.

“The Sound of Silence: Rhetorical Coercion, Democratic Acquiescence, and the Iraq War.” With Jennifer K. Lobasz. In Jane K. Cramer and A. Trevor Thrall, eds., American Foreign Policy and the Politics of Fear: Threat Inflation Since 9/11, 117-134. Oxford: Routledge, 2009.

“Demographic Change and the Sources of International Conflict.” With Jack Levy. In Myron Weiner and Sharon Stanton Russell, eds., Moving Targets: Demography and Security, 62-105. New York : Berghahn Books, 2001.

“The Limits of Alliance : Conflict, Cooperation, and Collective Identity.” In Anthony Lake and David Ochmanek, eds., The Real and the Ideal: Essays on International Relations in Honor of Richard H. Ullman, 207-235. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield/Council on Foreign Relations, 2001.

Book Reviews

Review of João Resende-Santos, Neorealism, States, and the Modern Mass Army (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). In Perspectives on Politics 6:3 (September 2008): 647-648.

Review of Karl P. Mueller, et al., Striking First: Preemptive and Preventive Attack in U.S. National Security Policy (Santa Monica : RAND, 2006). In Political Science Quarterly 122:4 (winter 2007-2008): 666-667.

Review of Herfried Münkler, The New Wars (Oxford: Polity Press, 2005). In Constellations 13:1 (spring 2006): 125-127

Review of Stanley Hoffmann with Frédéric Bozo, Gulliver Unbound: America's Imperial Temptation and the War in Iraq (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004). In Political Science Quarterly 120:3 (fall 2005): 509-510.

Review of Rebecca B. Kook, The Logic of Democratic Exclusion: African Americans in the United States and Palestinian Citizens in Israel (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). In Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 38:2 (winter 2004-2005): 274-275.

Review of Patricia A. Weitsman, Dangerous Alliances: Proponents of Peace, Weapons of War (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004). In International Studies Review 6:3 (September 2004): 496-498.

Review of Laila Parsons, The Druze Between Palestine and Israel , 1947-49 ( New York: St. Martin 's Press, 2000) . In Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 35:1 (summer 2001): 108.

Other Publications

“Minerva: Unclipping the Owl’s Wings,” contribution to a Social Science Research Council online forum on the Defense Department’s Minerva Research Initiative, posted 19 November 2008.

“Cuban Missile Crisis.” In Peter Karsten, ed., Encyclopedia of War and American Society (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2005).

“Racial Integration in the U.S. Armed Forces.” In Peter Karsten, ed., Encyclopedia of War and American Society (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2005).

“Liberals and Nukes,” The New Republic , 14 & 21 September 1998, 8.

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