Aaron Belkin Associate Professor Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1998 e-mail: belkin@polsci.ucsb.edu Fields of Interest: Gays in the Military, Civil-Military Relations 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. Students requesting a letter of recommendation from Professor Belkin should click here. 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: "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.