Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2000
personal home page: http://www.rauchhaus.com

Professor Rauchhaus' research and teaching interests include international relations theory, national security policy, American foreign policy, conflict management, counter-terrorism, and homeland security. His expertise in national security policy stems from his academic training, as well as practical experience that he gained from military service, law enforcement, and work in the defense industry. Prior to joining the faculty at UCSB, Rauchhaus was a management consultant with McKinsey and Company, Inc. (2000-02) and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center of International Studies at Princeton University (2002-03).

Professor Rauchhaus is currently completing work on a series of articles and a book manuscript on the use of coercion and mediation to manage violent conflicts. He has also started work on a new project that quantitatively evaluates the relationship between nuclear deterrence and the conventional war. 

In 2008, Rauchhaus was awarded a Distinguished Teaching Award by the UCSB Academic Senate.

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Selected Recent Publications:

"Principal-Agent Problems in Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Adverse Selection, and the Commitment Dilemma," International Studies Quarterly (forthcoming 2009).

"Evaluating the Nuclear Peace Hypothesis: A Quantitative Approach," Journal of Conflict Resolution (Spring 2009).

"Asymmetric Information, Mediation and Conflict Management," World Politics 58 (January 2006).

"Humanitarian Intervention, Conflict Management, and the Application and Misapplication of Moral Hazard Theory," Ethnopolitics (June 2005).  Reprinted in Timothy Crawford and Alan Kuperman, ed., Moral Hazard Theory and Conflict Management (New York: Routledge, 2008).

"Explaining NATO Englargement," in Robert W. Rauchhaus, ed., Explaining NATO Enlargement (London: Frank Cass Press, 2001).

"Marching NATO Eastward: Can International Relations Theory Keep Pace?" Journal of Contemporary Security Policy v. 21, no. 22 (Fall 2000), reprinted in Robert Rauchhaus, Explaining NATO Enlargement.