Brian Lai
Department Chair
Associate Professor
Biography
Drop-in hours: Th 9:00 – Noon and by appointment
Publications:
- “’Draining the Swamp’: Empirical Examination of Factors that lead to the Production of International Terrorism, 1967-1997,” Conflict Management and Peace Science (2007).
- “Institutions of the Offensive: Domestic Sources of Dispute Initiation in Authoritarian Regimes, 1950-1992,” American Journal of Political Science (with Dan Slater, 2006).
- “Democracy, Political Similarity, and International Alliances, 1816-1992,” Journal of Conflict Resolution (with Dan Reiter, 2000).
Research areas
- International Relations
- Political Methodology
- American Foreign Policy
- Terrorism
- Domestic Politics and International Relations
- Conflict Processes