Jon Western Five College Associate Professor of International Relations 107 Skinner Hall Mount Holyoke College 413-538-2659 The IR Blog Fall 2008 Courses: Amherst PS62 Research Resources Curriculum Vitae | Five College IR Program Jon Western Five College Associate Professor of International Relations 107 Skinner Hall Mount Holyoke College 413-538-2659 jwestern@mtholyoke.edu 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 Maintained by Jon Western.
Jon Western
Five College Associate Professor of International Relations 107 Skinner Hall Mount Holyoke College 413-538-2659
The IR Blog
Fall 2008 Courses:
Amherst PS62
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
Maintained by Jon Western.
