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• Publication of 鈥淓xpanding the Scope of Policy Leadership through Networks: Grand Rapids, Michigan,鈥� chapter 9 in the text "The Facilitative Leader in City Hall: Reexamining the Scope and Contributions," James H. Svara, Editor, Arizona State University, CRC Press, 2009. Co-Authored with Eric S. Zeemering, Ph.D., San Francisco State University.

International Relations:

• International Humanitarian Law with a focus on Responsibility to Protect;
• Counter-Terror Politics in the broader context of American foreign policy;
• Just War Theory;
• Integration versus disintegration;
• Post-Cold War relations between the North and South particularly how strong states intervene (and at what level) crisis situations in weak states;
• International political economy, international regimes, development and dependency: South (third world) political economy - particularly linking international regimes with dependency structures and measuring levels of dependent relationships, multilateralism and transnational activity;
• International Human Rights and US Foreign Policy.

Comparative Politics:

• Authoritarianism and neo-fascism;
• Neo-nationalism and the impact on democracy;
• Political Economy of MENA;
• War and conflict in MENA;
• At the macro level is the issue of development and trying to measure it both quantitatively and qualitatively;
• In a comparative public policy sense I have been looking at nationalism as a primary force that motivates in this Post-Cold War era;
• Haitian Political Economy and the political instability therein;
• Caribbean development;

American Politics:

• Anti-democratic / extremist movements;
• Political cult-like behavior;
• Domestic political economy;
• Inequality and participation, power and democracy;

Dissertation Topic

• "Post Cold War Relations Between the North and South: Studying the Effects of International Regimes on Less Developed Countries", G. Zaninovich (chair), P. Southwell, G. Fry and A. Hawkins.

Other Political Science Discipline Activity

• Reviewer for Prentice-Hall
• Reviewer for Westview Press
• Member: American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, World Affairs Council of West Michigan, United Nations Association, Michigan Conference of Political Scientists
• Reviewer for Rourke Text
• Reviewer for Pine Forge Press

Favorite Links

• Model United Nations
• POLIS - Political Studies Club

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