Jon Western
Five College Associate Professor of International Relations
Mount Holyoke College
107 Skinner Hall
South Hadley, MA 01075
jwestern@mtholyoke.edu

 

About Jon Western:

Jon received a B.A. from Macalester College, an M.P.P. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. His teaching and research interests focus on U.S. foreign policy, military intervention, human rights and humanitarian affairs, and the Balkans. Prior to joining the Mt. Holyoke faculty, Jon served as a Peace Scholar-in-residence and the coordinator of the Dayton Upgrade Project at the United States Institute of Peace. He has taught at Columbia University and George Washington University and served as a Balkans and East European specialist at the U.S. Department of State.

He is the author of Selling Intervention and War: The Presidency, the Media and the American Public (Johns University Press, 2005) and the Co-editor of Glabal Giant: Is China Changing the Rules of the Game? (Palgrave, 2009). His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, International Security, Security Studies, Ethnopolitics, Harvard International Review, Global Responsibility to Protect, Global Dialogue and other journals.

Recent Publications:

Patrice C. McMahon and Jon Western, “The Death of Dayton: How to Stop Bosnia From Falling Apart,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 88, no. 5 (September/October, 2009), pp. 69 - 83;

Eva Paus, Penelope B. Prime, and Jon Western, eds., Global Giant: Is China Changing the Rules of the Game (New York: Palgrave MacMilan, 2009);

Jon Western, “Humanitarian Intervention, American Public Opinion, and the Future of R2P,” Global Responsibility to Protect, Vol. 1, no. 3 (2009), pp. 324 - 345;

Jon Western, “The War Over Iraq: Selling War to the American Public,” in A. Trevor Thrall and Jane K. Cramer, eds., American Foreign Policy and the Politics of Fear: Threat Inflation Since 9/11 (New York: Routledge, 2009) updated and revised from Jon Western, “The War Over Iraq: Selling War to the American Public,” Security Studies, Vol. 14, no. 1 (January/March 2005), pp. 99 - 132.

Jon Western, “Review: Carne Ross, Independent Diplomat (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007)” in Perspectives on Politics, forthcoming 2009

Jon Western, "American Security, The Use of Force, and the Limits of the Bush Doctrine," in David P. Forsythe, Patrice C. McMahon, and Andrew Wedeman, eds., American Foreign Policy in a Globalized World (Routhledge, 2006);

Jon Western, "Illusions of Moral Hazard: A Conceptual and Empirical Critique," in Alan Kuperman and Timothy Crawford, eds., Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion and Civil War (Routledge, 2007); previously published in Ethnopolitics, Vol. 4, no. 2, June 2005

 

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