International Relations, Identity, Civil-Military Relations
Preferred e-mail address: belkin[at]palmcenter[dot]ucsb[dot]edu
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1998 Professor Belkin specializes in civil-military relations and security studies, with a particular focus on sexuality and the military. Prior to his arrival at UCSB, he was a visiting member of the political science faculty at Stanford University, a MacArthur Foundation postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, and a pre-doctoral fellow at the Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford. He has published 20 peer-reviewed journal articles, chapters, and books, including Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics (Princeton University Press, 1996, co-edited with Philip Tetlock), and United We Stand? Divide and Conquer Politics and the Logic of International Hostility (SUNY Press, 2005). Currently, he is working on a project on purity and contamination in the U.S. armed forces.
Professor Belkin is founder and Director of the Michael D. Palm Center (http://www.palmcenter.org), formerly the Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military.
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Courses Taught:
| PS 7 | International Relations Theory (undergraduate) | | PS 225 | International Relations Theory (graduate) | | PS 106IS | International Security (undergraduate) | | PS 275 | International Security (graduate) | | PS 159 | Gays and Lesbians in the Military | | PS 106PP | Political Psychology (undergraduate) | | PS 208 | Causal Inference in the Social Sciences |
Selected Publications:
" 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell': Does the Gay Ban Undermine the Military's Reputation?" Armed Forces and Society 34:2 (2008).
"Does Social Cohesion Determine Motivation in Combat? An Old Question with an Old Answer" (with Robert MacCoun and Elizabeth Kier), Armed Forces and Society 32:4 (2006).
United We Stand? Divide and Conquer Politics and the Logic of International Hostility. Albany, NY: SUNY Press (2005).
Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Exploring the Debates on the Gay Ban in the U.S. Military, co-edited with Geoffrey Bateman. Boulder Co: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003.
"Toward a Structural Understanding of Coup Risk: Concepts, Measurement, and Implications" (with Evan Schofer), Journal of Conflict Resolution 47:5 (2003).
"A Modest Proposal: Privacy as a Rationale for Excluding Gays and Lesbians from the U.S. Military" (with Melissa S. Embser-Herbert), International Security 27:2 (2002).
"When Is Strategic Bombing Effective? Domestic Legitimacy and Aerial Denial" (with Michael Clark, Gigi Gokcek, Robert Hinckley, Tom Knecht, and Eric Patterson), Security Studies 11:4 (2002).
Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics: Logical, Methodological, and Psychological Perspectives, co-edited with Philip E. Tetlock. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.
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