Currently, my main research interests revolve around international security, authoritarian regimes, and international crises.
My dissertation prospectus, which I plan to defend in the Spring 2018 Semester, examines how different types of authoritarian regimes manage international crises. I mainly ask why some authoritarian regime types are more prone to escalate international crises than the others. I rely on two main datasets in answering this question: The autocratic regimes dataset created by Geddes, Wright, and Frantz (2014) to measure different types of authoritarian regimes, and the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) dataset (Brecher and Wilkenfeld 2000; Beardsley et al. 2017) to identify different crisis management techniques from negotiation to full-scale military action.
An international crisis is defined by Brecher and Wilkenfeld (2003) as “a change in the state’s internal or external environment leading to a threat to one or more basic values, along with an awareness of finite time for response to the value threat, and a heightened probability of involvement in military hostilities” (Ausderan 2015: 29). I predict international crises that involve personalist autocracies and military regimes as participants to be more severe and escalatory in nature than crises experienced by single-party authoritarian regimes.
Before coming to the University of Kentucy, I completed my master's degree at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. My master's thesis focused on a critical analysis of the U.S.-Venezuela relations through the theory of social constructivism. Please visit my personal webpage for more information on my research and teaching interests.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
International Relations, International Security, Authoritarian Regimes and International Crises, Regime Transitions
WORKING PAPERS
"Authoritarian Regimes and Intensification of International Crises"
My dissertation prospectus, which I plan to defend in the Spring 2018 Semester, examines how different types of authoritarian regimes manage international crises. I mainly ask why some authoritarian regime types are more prone to escalate international crises than the others. I rely on two main datasets in answering this question: The autocratic regimes dataset created by Geddes, Wright, and Frantz (2014) to measure different types of authoritarian regimes, and the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) dataset (Brecher and Wilkenfeld 2000; Beardsley et al. 2017) to identify different crisis management techniques from negotiation to full-scale military action.
An international crisis is defined by Brecher and Wilkenfeld (2003) as “a change in the state’s internal or external environment leading to a threat to one or more basic values, along with an awareness of finite time for response to the value threat, and a heightened probability of involvement in military hostilities” (Ausderan 2015: 29). I predict international crises that involve personalist autocracies and military regimes as participants to be more severe and escalatory in nature than crises experienced by single-party authoritarian regimes.
Before coming to the University of Kentucy, I completed my master's degree at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. My master's thesis focused on a critical analysis of the U.S.-Venezuela relations through the theory of social constructivism. Please visit my personal webpage for more information on my research and teaching interests.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
International Relations, International Security, Authoritarian Regimes and International Crises, Regime Transitions
WORKING PAPERS
"Authoritarian Regimes and Intensification of International Crises"