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JOHN ROBERT ONEAL

Department of Political Science 2726 Saratoga Lane Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35406 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0213 (205) 348-5980 [email protected]

Short biography posted by Essential Science Indicators/Thomson at http://www.esi- topics.com/armed-conflict/interviews/JohnROneal.html

Education:

Ph.D., , 1979 A.M., Stanford University, 1970 B.S., Distinguished Graduate, United States Military Academy, 1968

Academic Positions:

Professor Emeritus of Political Science, The University of Alabama, 2006-. Nobel Institute Research Fellow, Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo, June 2011. Professor and Director of International Studies, Department of Political Science, The University of Alabama, 1999-2006; Associate Professor 1991-99; Assistant Professor 1988-91 (Graduate and undergraduate courses on international relations, international political economy, international conflict). Visiting Fellow, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany, July-August 2002. Fulbright Scholar and Fellow, Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway, January-July 2000. Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, , 1996-97. Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation grants, 1996-97, 1998. Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Social Science Research Council, 1991-92. National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA, 1989-90. Instructor, 's International Studies in London, Summer 1981, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2007. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1987-88. Research Associate, Institute for Public Policy Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 1986-88. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University, 1979-86.

Books:

Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations. W. W. Norton, 2001. With Bruce Russett. Co-winner, Best Book of the Decade, International Studies Assn., 2010. Foreign Policy Making in Times of Crisis. Press, 1982. Winner of Edgar S. Furniss, Jr. Award from the Mershon Center of Ohio State University for contributions to the study of national security affairs. Articles and Chapters in Books:

The Effects of the International Security Environment on National Military Expenditures: A Multi-Country Study. International Organization, 2012, vol. 66:491-514. With William Nordhaus and Bruce Russett. Transforming Regional Security through Liberal Reforms. Pp. 158-180 in T.V. Paul, ed., International Relations Theory and Regional Transformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Trade Does Promote Peace: New Simultaneous Estimates of the Reciprocal Effects of Trade and Conflict. Journal of Peace Research, 2010, vol. 47:763-774. With Håvard Hegre and Bruce Russett. Recent Research Using the Liberal-Realist Model of Interstate Conflict. Journal of Conflict Management and Development. Vol. III, 2009, 21-35. Globalization and Income Inequality in the Developing World. In Masamichi Sasaki (ed.), New Frontiers in Comparative Sociology. Leiden: Brill, 2009, 353-377. With Margit Bussmann and Indra de Soysa. Do Hegemons Distribute Private Goods? A Test of Power-Transition Theory. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2007, vol. 51:88-111. With Margit Bussmann. Does the Diversionary Use of Force Threaten the Democratic Peace? Assessing the Effect of Economic Growth on Interstate Conflict, 1921-2001. International Studies Quarterly, 2006, vol. 50:755-779. With Jaroslav Tir. Confirming the Liberal Peace with Analyses of Directed Dyads. In Harvey Starr, ed., Approaches, Levels, and Methods of Analysis in International Politics: Crossing Boundaries. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Seeking Peace in the Post-Cold War World of Hegemony and Terrorism. In Bruce Russett, Purpose and Policy in the Global Community. 2006. New York: Palgrave Macmillan,. With Bruce Russett. The Effect of Globalization on National Income Inequality. Comparative Sociology, 2005, vol. 4:285-312. With Margit Bussmann and Indra de Soysa. Rule of Three, Let It Be: When More Really Is Better. Conflict Management and Peace Science, Winter 2005, vol. 22:293-310. With Bruce Russett. Does the 'War against Terrorism' Prove the 'Clash of Civilizations' Right? Some Evidence. Pp. 189-215 in Peter Herrmann and Arno Tausch, eds., Dar Al Islam: The Mediterranean, the World System and the Wider Europe: The Chain of Peripheries and the new Wider Europe. Hauppage, Canada: Nova Science Publishers, 2005. With Bruce Russett. A la Recherche de la Paix dans un Monde d‟Après-guerre Froide Charactérizé par l‟Hégémonie et le Terrorism (“Seeking Peace in the Post-Cold War World of Hegemony and Terrorism”). Études Internationales, December 2004, vol. 3: 641-667. With Bruce Russett. Finding Peace in a World of Hegemony and Terrorism. International Relations of the Asia- Pacific, 2003, vol. 3: 267-284. With Bruce Russett. Measuring Interdependence and Its Pacific Benefits: A Reply to Gartzke and Li. Journal of Peace Research, November 2003, vol. 40: 721-725. Causes of Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations, 1885-1992. International Studies Quarterly, September 2003, vol. 47: 371-393. With Bruce Russett and Michael L. Berbaum. How the Wealth of Nations Conditions the Liberal Peace. European Journal of International Relations, June 2003, vol. 9: 249-286. With Michael Mousseau and Håvard Hegre.

Articles and Chapters in Books, cont.:

Podtverzhdaet li "boǐna protiv terrorizma" tezis o "stolknovenii tsivilizatsiǐ’?": Analiz nekotorykh svidetel’stv. (Does the “War against Terrorism” Prove the “Clash of Civilizations” Right? Some Evidence.) Europa, Russian-language journal of the Polish Institute of International Affairs, December 2002, vol 2: 19-58.. With Bruce Russett. Empirical Support for the Liberal Peace. In Edward D. Mansfield and Brian M. Pollins, eds., Economic Interdependence and International Conflict: New Perspectives on an Enduring Debate. Ann Arbor, MI: Press, 2003, 189-206. Modeling Conflict While Studying Dynamics: A Response to Nathaniel Beck. In Gerald Schneider, Katherine Barbieri, and Nils Petter Gleditisch, eds., Globalization and Armed Conflict. Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003, 179-188. With Bruce Russett. Assessing the Liberal Peace with Alternative Specifications: Trade Still Reduces Conflict (revised version). In Gerald Schneider, Katherine Barbieri, and Nils Petter Gleditisch, eds., Globalization and Armed Conflict. Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003, 143-164. With Bruce Russett. Patriotism or Opinion Leadership? The Nature and Origins of the “Rally „Round the Flag” Effect. Journal of Conflict Resolution, October 2001, vol. 45: 661-687. With William D. Baker. Clear and Clean: The Fixed Effects of the Liberal Peace. International Organization, Spring 2001, vol. 55: 469-485. With Bruce Russett. Clash of Civilizations, or Realism and Liberalism Déjà Vu? Journal of Peace Research, September 2000, vol. 37: 583-608. With Bruce Russett and Michaelene Cox. A Response to Huntington. Journal of Peace Research, September 2000, vol. 37: 611-612. With Bruce Russett. Why “An Identified Systemic Model of the Democracy-Peace Nexus” Does Not Persuade. Defence and Peace Economics, 2000, no. 2: 197-214. With Bruce Russett. (Reprinted in The Economics of Conflict, Todd Sandler and Keith Hartley, eds. Cheltenham, England: Taylor and Francis, 2003.) With Bruce Russett. Press Freedom and Militarized Disputes. Chapter 4 in Doug Van Belle, Press Freedom and Global Politics, 2000. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. With Doug Van Belle. The Kantian Peace: Assessing the Pacific Benefits of Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations, 1885-1992. World Politics, October 1999, vol. 52: 1-37. With Bruce Russett. Boon or Bane? Reassessing the Productivity of Foreign Direct Investment. American Sociological Review, October 1999, vol. 64: 766-782. With Indra de Soysa. Is the Liberal Peace Just an Artifact of the Cold War? International Interactions, 1999, vol. 25, 3: 213-241. With Bruce Russett. Assessing the Liberal Peace with Alternative Specifications: Trade Still Reduces Conflict. Journal of Peace Research, 1999, vol. 36, 4: 423-442. But Power and Wealth Are Satisfying: A Response to Lemke and Reed. Journal of Conflict Resolution, August 1998, vol. 41: 517-520. With Indra de Soysa and Yong-Hee Park. The Third Leg of the Kantian Tripod for Peace: International Organizations and Militarized Disputes. International Organization, Summer 1998, vol. 52: 441-467. With Bruce Russett and David R. Davis. New Tests of the Democratic Peace Controlling for Economic Interdependence, 1950-85. Political Research Quarterly, December 1997, vol. 50: 751-776. With James Lee Ray. The Classical Liberals Were Right: Democracy, Interdependence, and Conflict, 1950-1985. International Studies Quarterly, June 1997, vol. 41: 267-294. With Bruce Russett.

Articles and Chapters in Books, cont.:

Testing Power-Transition Theory Using Alternative Measures of National Capabilities. Journal of Conflict Resolution, August 1997, vol. 40: 509-528. With Indra de Soysa and Yong- Hee Park. Cultural Diversity and Economic Development: A Cross-National Study of 98 Countries, 1960-1985. Economic Development and Cultural Change, July 1997, vol. 45: 61-79. With Brad Lian. The Effect of Alliance Membership on National Defense Burdens, 1953-1988: A Test of the Theory of Collective Action. International Interactions, 1996, 22, 2: 105-122. With Carter Whatley. Are the American People "Pretty Prudent"? Public Responses to U.S. Uses of Force, 1950- 1988. International Studies Quarterly, June 1996, vol. 40: 261-279. With Bradley Lian and James Joyner, Jr. The Liberal Peace: Interdependence, Democracy, and International Conflict, 1950-1986. Journal of Peace Research, Winter 1996, vol. 33: 11-29. With Frances Oneal, Zeev Maoz, and Bruce Russett. Also published in Japanese in Leviathan, Winter 1996: 81- 110. The Rally 'Round the Flag Effect in U.S. Foreign Policy Crises, 1950-1985. Political Behavior, December 1995, vol. 17: 379-401. With Anna Lillian Bryan. The Affinity of Foreign Investors for Authoritarian Regimes. Political Research Quarterly (formerly Western Political Quarterly), September 1994, vol. 47: 565-588. The Theory of Collective Action and NATO Defense Burdens: New Empirical Tests. Political Research Quarterly (formerly Western Political Quarterly), June 1994, vol. 48: 373-396. With Paul Diehl. Presidents, the Use of Force, and Public Opinion. Journal of Conflict Resolution, June 1993, vol. 37: 277-300. With Bradley Lian. Budgetary Savings from Conscription and Burden Sharing in NATO. Defence Economics, January 1992, vol. 3: 113-125. The Influence of Domestic and International Politics on the President's Use of Force. Journal of Conflict Resolution, June 1991, vol. 35: 307-332. With Patrick James. Rejoinder to Murdoch and Sandler. International Studies Quarterly, 1991, vol. 34: 115- 117. Testing the Theory of Collective Action: NATO Defense Burdens, 1950-1984. Journal of Conflict Resolution, September 1990, vol. 34: 426-448. The Theory of Collective Action and Burden Sharing in NATO. International Organization, Summer 1990, vol. 44: 379-402. NATO Burden Sharing and the Forces of Change. International Studies Quarterly, December 1989, vol. 33: 435-456. With Mark Elrod. Measuring the Material Base of the East-West Balance of Power. International Interactions, 1989, vol. 15: 177-196. The Rationality of Decision Making during International Crises. Polity, Summer 1988, vol. 20: 598-622. Hegemony, Imperialism, and the Profitability of Foreign Investments. International Organization, Spring 1988, vol. 42: 347-373. With Frances Oneal. The Profitability of Foreign Investments in Less Developed Regions. Political Science Quarterly, Spring 1988, vol. 103: 131-148. Explaining Imperialism: The State of the Art as Reflected in Three Theories. Polity, Winter 1986, vol. 19: 169-193. With Rajan Menon.

Awards and Distinctions:

Research Fellow, The Norwegian Nobel Institute, 2011. Co-winner, Best Book of the Decade, International Studies Assn., 2010. Chair, Best Book of the Year Award, International Studies Assn., 2010. Most Cited Researcher on Armed Conflict, 1996-2006, Thomson Reuters ESI, 2009. Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 2006-. Member, Selection Committee for Best Dissertation in IR, American Political Science Assn., 2005. Who‟s Who in Economics, 4th edition, 2003. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2002-. Fellow, The Norwegian Nobel Institute, 2000. Fulbright award for lecturing and research in Norway, 2000. Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation grant, 1996-97, 1998-2000. Principal Investigator, World Society Foundation grant, 1997-98. Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 24th edition. Dictionary of International Biography, 27th edition. Fellow, Institute for Social Science Research, University of Alabama, 1995-96. Member, Editorial Board, Political Research Quarterly, 1994-97. Member, Graduate Council, University of Alabama, 1993-96. Omicron Delta Kappa honorary society, 1993-. Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, Social Science Research Council, 1991-92. Teaching support, U.S. Institute of Peace, 1991. National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1989-90. U.S. Nominee, NATO Advanced Research Fellowship, 1989. International Travel Grant, American Council of Learned Societies, 1989. Research Grant, University of Alabama Research Grants Committee, 1989. Collaborative Research Grant, NATO Scientific Affairs Division, 1988. Research Grants, Vanderbilt University Research Council, 1984, 1985, and 1986. Edgar S. Furniss, Jr. Award, Mershon Center of Ohio State University, 1979. Graduate Summer Scholarship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1978. Visiting Scholar, Brookings Institution, 1975-76. Dissertation Grants, Harry S. Truman Library and Stanford University, 1975-78. Distinguished Graduate, United States Military Academy (8th in class of 706), 1968. Oklahoma Nominee, , 1968. Herman Beukema Memorial Award for the highest average in the social sciences, U.S.M.A., 1968.

Other Professional Activities:

Reviewer for National Science Foundation, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, World Politics, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Comparative Political Studies, International Security, International Interactions, Polity, European Journal of International Relations, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Australian Journal of Political Science, Defence Economics, American Politics Quarterly, Journal of Comparative Economics, International Studies Perspectives, Social Science Quarterly, Contemporary Economic Policy, Armed Forces and Society, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Southeastern Political Review, D.C. Heath, Routledge, and Houghton Mifflin. Other Professional Activities, cont:

Papers presented at American Political Science Association meeting, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1993, 1998, 2001, 2006; International Studies Association meeting, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004; Peace Science Society (International) 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004; Center for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn, 2002; University of Konstanz, 2002; Norwegian Nobel Institute, 2000; International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), 2000; Fulbright Alumni Association of Norway, 2000; European Consortium for Political and Social Research, 2000; UN Development Programme and Yale University Conference on Democracy and Development, 1997; Hoover Institution, 1990; Wilson Center, 1978. Discussant at American Political Science Association meeting, 1981, 1985, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2006; International Studies Association meeting, 1984, 1991, 1998; Southern Political Science Association meeting, 1985; and International Studies Association-South meeting, 1993. Member, Nashville Committee on Foreign Relations, 1981-86. Member, Board of Directors, United Nations Association-Nashville, 1982-86.

Military Service:

U.S. Army, 1964-72: Captain, Field Artillery, 1970-72; Vietnam (Bronze Star, Joint Service Commendation Medal), 1971.

Travel Abroad:

Mexico, Costa Rica, Germany, 2012. India, 2010. Jordan, India (five months), England, 2007; England, 2006; Belize, 2005. England, 2004. England, 2003. Norway, Germany, Netherlands, Luxembourg, 2002. England, 2001. Norway, Denmark, Sweden, , 2000. England, 1999. England, Netherlands, 1997. Guatemala, 1996. Cyprus, England, Wales, 1995. England, Netherlands, France, 1994. Egypt, Israel, 1992. Belize, England, 1991. England, 1989. Belgium, Netherlands, England, 1988. Canada (nine months), 1987-88. Belgium, France, West Germany, Netherlands, England, 1986. Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, 1985. Portugal, France, England, Morocco, 1984. Ireland, England, Netherlands, 1982. England, 1981. Ireland, Northern Ireland, 1978. India (six months), Nepal, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, England, Scotland, 1973-74. Vietnam, 1971.