Karen K. Petersen, Ph.D.
Research
Published Research
"Conflict Escalation in Dyads with a History of Territorial Disputes." International Journal of Conflict Management (forthcoming).
Prospects for Political Stability in a Democratic Iraq: A Study of the Clusters of Conflict, (with Stephen R. Saunders). Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen (2009).
“Revisiting Downs’s Issue-Attention Cycle: International Terrorism and U.S. Public Opinion.” Journal of Strategic Security Vol. 2, No. 4, 1-16 (Nov/Dec 2009).
“There is more to the Story than ‘Us-Versus-Them’: Expanding the Study of Interstate Conflict and Regime Type beyond a Dichotomy.” Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy Vol. 14, Issue 1 (2008).
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“Multiparty Disputes and the Probability of War, 1816-1992.” (with John Vasquez, and Yijia Wang). Conflict Management and Peace Science 21(2): 85-100 (Summer 2004). Re-printed in The Causes of International Conflict: Data, Methods and Theory. Glenn Palmer, ed. Forthcoming. Taylor and Francis.
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“A Research Note: Re-examining Transnational Ethnic Alliances and Foreign Policy Behavior.” International Interactions, 30:1, 25-42 (Winter 2004).
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“Neutrality, Common Foreign and Security Policy, and the Fourth Pillar of the European Union.” International Affairs Forum (15 August 2004).
Replication Files Not Applicable
Working Papers
I do not make working papers available on-line; however, I will provide information and/or copies of papers to individuals who submit a request via email. For more information about my work in progress, please see my vita.
Karen Petersen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Middle Tennessee State University
1301 East Main Street
Box 29
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37132
Office: Peck Hall 244