Robert Rauchhaus
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2000

e-mail: rauchhaus@polsci.ucsb.edu
personal home page: http://www.rauchhaus.com

Fields of Interest: International Relations, Methodology

Professor Rauchhaus' research and teaching interests include international relations, national security policy, U.S. 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.

Courses Taught:
PS 7 Introductional to International Relations
PS 108 Politics and Literature
PS 121 International Relations
PS 126 National Security
PS 127 American Foreign Policy
PS 209 Game Theory and Formal Modeling
PS 275 War, Diplomacy, and International Security

Selected Recent Publications:

"Containment vs. Rollback," NATO Encyclopedia (ABC CLIO, forthcoming).

"Realpolitik," NATO Encyclopedia (ABC CLIO, forthcoming).

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

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

"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.