In the news

Dr. Jaroslav Tir appears in the Chicago Sun Times in an article co-authored by Dr. Paul Diehl at the University of Illinois on the problems associated with dividing Iraq along ethnic lines. Read the article here.

Marathon Man

Congratulations to Dr. Maurits van der Veen on winning the 2006 Atlanta Marathon! He finished the 26 mile course in 2 hours, 33 minutes, 58 seconds. Read the AJC article here. And you thought you were running to keep up at the end of the semester....

Fall course evaluations

Course eval packets have been distributed to our faculty and instructors, and some have already had their classes complete them. We posted information about the evaluations last spring, so rather than be redundant, here's the link to that entry.

It's a Major Award!

Congratulations to Dr. Patricia Sullivan on receiving the Peace Science Society’s 2006 Walter Isard Dissertation Award for her thesis on “The Utility of Force: War Aims and Asymmetric Outcomes.” Her dissertation was supervised by Scott Gartner, Bob Jackman, and Jo Andrews at the University of California-Davis.

The Walter Isard Award for the Best Dissertation in Peace Science is given every two years. The winner is selected on the basis of the importance and scientific significance of the dissertation with respect to the field of peace science and its contribution to the understanding of international behavior more generally. The previous two recipients of the Isard Award are also on faculty with the Department of International Affairs: Dr. Jaroslav Tir (2002) and Dr. Stephen Shellman (2004).