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Christopher Gelpi, Associate Professor, Political Science

Contact Info:

Office Location:	406 Perkins Lib
Office Phone:	(919) 660-4318
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.duke.edu/~gelpi

Education:

PhD	University of Michigan	1994
A.B.	Stanford University	1988
Summer program in Russian language	University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA	1987

Specialties:

Security, Peace, & Conflict
International Relations
Methods
Behavior & Identities

Research Interests: Interstate Relations, Democratic Peace, and Methodology

Associate Professor of Political Science. His primary interests are in the sources of international militarized conflict and strategies for international conflict resolution. He is currently involved in research projects which focus on the role of norms in crisis bargaining, the influence of democracy on the use of force, and the use of alliances as instruments of international control. He has also published works on the democratic peace, diversionary wars, deterrence theory, and the influence of the international system on the outbreak of violence. He previously taught at Harvard University and has been a recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship, a fellowship from the Regents of the University of Michigan, and a Horace H. Rackham Dissertation Fellowship. His works have appeared in the American Political Science Review, The Journal of Conflict Resolution and Political Science Quarterly.

Keywords:

International • Political Science • Military • Conflict • Democracy

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Eugene Walton  
• Mark Yeisley  
• Kathryn McNabb Cochran  
• Amber A. Diaz  
• Nazli Avdan  
• M. Christine Lee  
• Mark Buntaine  
• Edward Redman  

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. C. Gelpi, Performing On Cue? The Formation of Public Attitudes Toward War, Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 54 no. 1 (February, 2010)
2. J. Grieco, C. Gelpi, J Reifler, P Feaver, Let’s Get a Second Opinion: International Institutions and American Public Support for War, International Studies Quarterly (June, 2011)
3. C. Gelpi and N. Avdan, Clashing States and Civilizations: The Multilateral Flow of Transnational Terrorism, 2000-2007 (Submitted, 2010)
4. C. Gelpi, Preaching to the Choir? Cable News and the Polarization of American Foreign Policy Views (Submitted, 2010)
5. C. Gelpi, News from the Frontlines: The Causal Impact of War News on Presidential Vote Choice (Submitted, 2010)