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Branislav L. Slantchev

Curriculum Vitae


CURRENT POSITION: July 2008 - present

Associate Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0521
 
Phone: 858-822-2684
Fax: 858-534-7130
Web: http://polisci.ucsd.edu/slantchev/

EDUCATION

OTHER RESEARCH AND EMPLOYMENT

GRANTS AND AWARDS

PUBLICATIONS

  1. The Power to Hurt: Costly Conflict with Completely Informed States.
    American Political Science Review, Vol. 97, No. 1, pp. 123-33, February, 2003.
  2. The Principle of Convergence in Wartime Negotiations.
    American Political Science Review, Vol. 97, No. 4, pp. 621-32, November, 2003.
  3. How Initiators End Their Wars: The Duration of Warfare and the Terms of Peace.
    American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 813-29, October, 2004.
  4. The Political Economy of Simultaneous Transitions: An Empirical Test of Two Models.
    Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 279-94, June, 2005.
  5. Probabilistic Causality, Selection Bias, and the Logic of the Democratic Peace. (With Anna Alexandrova and Erik Gartzke.)
    American Political Science Review, Vol. 99, No. 3, pp. 459-62, August, 2005.
  6. Military Coercion in Interstate Crises.
    American Political Science Review, Vol. 99, No. 4, pp. 533-547, November, 2005.
  7. Territory and Commitment: The Concert of Europe as Self-Enforcing Equilibrium.
    Security Studies, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 565-606, October-December, 2005.
  8. Politicians, the Media, and Domestic Audience Costs.
    International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 445-477, June, 2006.
  9. The Armed Peace: A Punctuated Equilibrium Theory of War. (With Bahar Leventoğlu.)
    American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 755-771, October, 2007.
  10. Choosing How To Cooperate: A Repeated Public-Goods Model of International Relations. (With Tamar London and Randall Stone.)
    International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 335-362, June, 2008.

WORK IN PROGRESS

  1. Military Threats: The Costs of Coercion and the Price of Peace. Book manuscript. In review.
  2. "Feigning Weakness."
  3. "Game Theory and Other Modeling Approaches." (With Frank Zagare.) For the Compendium of International Studies, edited by Paul Diehl and James Morrow. International Studies Association.
  4. "War Is Not a Bet: Mutual Optimism as a Cause of War." (With Ahmer Tarar.)
  5. "War Moods: Fighting and Civilian Morale." (With Bahar Leventoğlu and Molly Bauer.)

NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

  1. "American Rendition." Book review of The Dark Side by Jane Mayer.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, July 13, 2008.
  2. "Apocalypse Then, Apocalypse Now." Book review of The Infernal Machine by Matthew Carr.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, April 29, 2007.
  3. Book review. Trust and Mistrust in International Relations by Andrew Kydd.
    Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 632-633, September, 2006.
  4. "Disastrous Foreign Policy: What Will Clinton Be Remembered For?"
    Democrat and Chronicle, April 13, 1999. Rochester, NY.
  5. "Whither Yugoslavia? NATO's Objectives in Kosovo,"
    Pari, 76: March, 1999. Sofia, Bulgaria. (In Bulgarian.)

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND MINI-CONFERENCES

REFEREEING

UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

COURSES TAUGHT

  1. Game Theory (graduate)
  2. Formal Models in International Relations (graduate)
  3. International Security (graduate)
  4. Introduction to International Relations (undergraduate)
  5. National Security Strategy (undergraduate)

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS