Jon Western

Five College Associate Professor of International Relations

107 Skinner Hall

Mount Holyoke College

413-538-2659

jwestern@mtholyoke.edu

 

Spring 2008 Courses:

Smith College: Gov 345 On-Line Syllabus

Research Resources

Curriculum Vitae

Five College IR Program

 

 

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). His articles have appeared in International Security, Security Studies, Ethnopolitics, Harvard International Review, Global Dialogue and other journals.

Recent Publications:

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

 

 

Web Resources for Courses 

The following contains dozens of related links to interesting web sites that are useful for your research papers. You will find links to:

Recent U.S. Foreign Policy

Major News Organizations

Foreign affairs magazines and journals

U.S. Government Organizations

International Organizations

United Nations Organizations

Non-Governmental Organizations

Human Rights Links

Women's and Gender Issues

Think Tanks and Research Institutes

Presidential Libraries

Misc. Resources

Selected Country Information

(Please notify me of any broken links)

 

U.S. Foreign Policy

Bush Administration National Security Documents

Iraq Relations

 

War in Iraq Information

(This is only a very partial list of websites with intormation on Iraq.)

PBS Frontline Episodes: documents and interview transcipts

 

 

September 11, 2001 and Terrorism Information

Additional media resources to broaden understanding of the current global crisis:

 

U.S., Global, Regional News and Info:

Various Political Periodicals

 

Foreign Affairs Magazines and Journals:

 

U.S. Government Organizations

 

International Organizations

 

United Nations Organizations and Activities

 

Non-Governmental Organizations

    Human Rights Links

 

Women's and Gender Issues

Think Tanks and Research Institutes

Presidential Libraries

 

Research Resources:

 

Public Opinion Research Centers and Data

Calendar of International Events, Conferences, and Organization Meetings

Maps

Interesting Documents and Reports

U.S. Foreign Policy Documents

Professional Organizations