Bio
Courses Taught
FYSE 0031: American Constitutional Democracy
FYSE 1134: Empires
PSCI 0089: War
PSCI 0103: Introduction to Comparative Politics
PSCI 0311: American Foreign Policy
PSCI 0324: The Political Development of Western Europe
PSCI 0407: US-European Relations
PSCI 0445: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the State: Voices and Responses
Books
“Empire of the Willing: The Privatization of American Power” (Basic Books, 2009).
Irreconcilable Differences? Explaining Czechoslovakia's Dissolution (co-edited and co-translated with Michael Kraus), Foreword by Václav Havel, Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
Recent Articles, Essays, and Book Chapters
Foreign Policy, Privatized" (with Omnivore), New York Times, October 5, 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/opinion/05stanger.html?th&emc=th
"Private Military Corporations: Benefits and Costs of Outsourcing Security," with Mark Eric Williams, Yale Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 2006)
“The Road to Qyteza: A Letter from Albania,” The American Scholar, Vol. 75, no. 4., Autumn 2006
Review of M. Stephen Fish, Democracy Derailed in Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2005) in Democratization, vol. 13, no. 2, April 2006.
“The Profit Motive Goes to War” (with Felix Rohatyn), Financial Times, November 17, 2004.
“How Important are New Constitutions for Democratic Consolidation? Lessons from the Postcommunist States,” Democratization, vol. 11, no. 3, June 2004.
“Leninist Legacies and Legacies of State Socialism in Postcommunist Europe’s Constitutional Development,” in Grzegorz Ekiert and Stephen Hanson, eds., Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Research Interests
Comparative Democratization
Ethnic Conflict
European Politics
Globalization and the Privatization of American Power
Social Science Applications of Agent-Based Modeling