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I am a third year PhD student in Political Science at Penn State, majoring in International Relations with first minor in Methodology. States regularly attempt to manage conflicts with varying degree of success. Despite the importance of conflict management as a foreign policy instrument, academics have not answered fully what makes some attempts at shortening wars and lengthening peace more likely to succeed than others. My research agenda is intended to advance theoretically and empirically our understanding about how outside actors may manipulate uncertainty between belligerents and thus influence in-war and post-war interactions. Methodologically, I combine agent-based modeling and statistical testing to further my inferences about conflict management. | I am a third year PhD student in Political Science at Penn State, majoring in International Relations with first minor in Methodology. States regularly attempt to manage conflicts with varying degree of success. Despite the importance of conflict management as a foreign policy instrument, academics have not answered fully what makes some attempts at shortening wars and lengthening peace more likely to succeed than others. My research agenda is intended to advance theoretically and empirically our understanding about how outside actors may manipulate uncertainty between belligerents and thus influence in-war and post-war interactions. Methodologically, I combine agent-based modeling and statistical testing to further my inferences about conflict management. | ||
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About Me:
I am a third year PhD student in Political Science at Penn State, majoring in International Relations with first minor in Methodology. States regularly attempt to manage conflicts with varying degree of success. Despite the importance of conflict management as a foreign policy instrument, academics have not answered fully what makes some attempts at shortening wars and lengthening peace more likely to succeed than others. My research agenda is intended to advance theoretically and empirically our understanding about how outside actors may manipulate uncertainty between belligerents and thus influence in-war and post-war interactions. Methodologically, I combine agent-based modeling and statistical testing to further my inferences about conflict management.