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

Books

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 Journals

“The Wages of Insecurity: The Effects of War and Conflict on Democracy.” International Organization Forthcoming (conditional acceptance).

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

“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.

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

“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.

Essays in Edited Volumes

“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 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, forthcoming.

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

“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, http://www.slate.com/id/2185881/.

“Cruel to be Kind: Why Washington Should Not Reach Out to Muslim Moderates.” Slate, posted 3 January 2008, http://www.slate.com/id/2181263/.

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

“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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