RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Intrastate and Interstate Conflict Contentious Politics and Contentious Rights Pedagogy RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

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1 Victor Asal Department of Political Science Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy University at Albany State University of New York Milne Hall, 135 Western Avenue, Albany, NY Phone: ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science. Appointed Director, Public Security Studies Certificate, Department of Public Policy and Administration. Appointed University of Maryland, College Park Research Associate, National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START Center). My focus is on Ethnic Terrorism and Mass Casualty Terrorism. Research Associate, Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM). EDUCATION University of Maryland, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, College Park, MD. Ph.D., Government and Politics. Graduated May Fields of Study: Comparative Politics; Conflict and Conflict Resolution. Comprehensive Examinations Summer Passed with Distinction. Dissertation: The Political Inclusion of Minorities at Risk, Committee: Ted R. Gurr, Mark Lichbach (Chairs), Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Martin Heisler, and William Hodos. University of Maryland, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, College Park, MD. M.A., Government and Politics. Graduated Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ISRAEL. M.A., International Relations. Graduated June 1996 with honors. Fields of Study: International Relations Theory; International Law. Thesis: A Western Political Security Community. Tufts University, Medford, MA. B.A., Political Science and History. Graduated 1987, Magna Cum Laude

2 RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Intrastate and Interstate Conflict Contentious Politics and Contentious Rights Pedagogy RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Harwood, Paul G. and Victor Asal K Thru 12: Educating The First Digital Generation A Comparative Inquiry. Westport, CT: Praeger. Wilkenfeld, Jonathan, Kathleen Young, David Quinn, and Victor Asal Mediating International Crises: NY: Routledge. JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS Asal, Victor, R. Karl Rethemeyer, Ian Anderson, Jeff Rizzo, Matthew M. Rozea, and Allyson Stein The Softest Of Targets: A Study on Terrorist Target Selection. Journal of Applied Security Research, 4 (3): Beardsley, Kyle and Victor Asal Nuclear Weapons as Shields Conflict Management and Peace Science, 26 (3): Beardsley, Kyle and Victor Asal Winning with the Bomb. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 53 (2): Asal, Victor, C. Christine Fair, and Stephen M. Shellman Consenting to a Child's Jihad. Studies in Terrorism and Conflict. 20 (5): Asal, Victor, Mitchell Brown, and Renee Gibson Figueroa Structure and Empowerment and the Liberalization of Cross-National Abortion Rights. Politics and Gender. 4 (2): Asal, Victor, and Paul G. Harwood Search Engines: Terrorism s Killer App Studies in Terrorism and Conflict. 31(7): Asal, Victor, and R. Karl Rethemeyer Dilettantes, Ideologues, and the Weak: Terrorists Who Don t Kill. Conflict Management and Peace Science. (3): Asal, Victor, and R. Karl Rethemeyer The Nature of the Beast: Terrorist Organizational Characteristics and Organizational Lethality. Journal of Politics, 70(2): Asal, Victor, and Kyle Beardsley Proliferation and International Crisis Behavior. Journal of Peace Research, 44(2): Asal, Victor, and Paul G. Harwood Airing Grievances Online: Search Engine Algorithms and the Fate of Minorities At Risk. Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 4(3):

3 Asal, Victor, Brian Nussbaum, and William Harrington Terrorist Transnational Activist Networks. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 30(1): Fordham, Benjamin, and Victor Asal Billiard Balls and Snowflakes: Do the Unitlevel Characteristics of Leading States Influence Systemic Outcomes? International Studies Quarterly, 51(1): Asal, Victor, and Elizabeth L. Blake Creating Simulations for Political Science Education. Journal of Political Science Education, 2(1): Asal, Victor, and R. Karl Rethemeyer Researching Terrorist Networks. Journal of Security Education, 1(4): Quinn, David, Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Kathleen Smarick, and Victor Asal Power Play: Mediation In Symmetric and Asymmetric International Crises. International Interactions, 32(4): Asal, Victor Playing Games with International Relations. International Studies Perspectives, 6(3): Wilkenfeld, Jonathan, Kathleen Young, Victor Asal, and David Quinn Mediating International Crises: Cross-National and Experimental Perspectives. The Journal of Conflict Resolution 47(3): SHORT ARTICLES Asal, Victor, and Andrew Blum Holy Terror and Mass Killings? Reexamining the Motivations and Methods of Mass Casualty Terrorists. International Studies Review, 7(1): Blum, Andrew, Victor Asal, and Jonathan Wilkenfeld Nonstate Actors, Terrorism, and Weapons of Mass Destruction. International Studies Review, 7(1): BOOK CHAPTERS Asal, Victor, Stephen Shellman and Tiffiany Howard. Forthcoming. Methodological Development in Nationalism, Ethnicity and Migration, In Robert A. Denemark, and Andrea K. Gerlak (Eds.) International Studies Compendia Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Asal, Victor H. and R. Karl Rethemeyer Characteristics of Jihadists Who Use or Pursue CBRN: A Quantitative Approach. In G. Ackerman and J. Tamsett (Eds.), Jihadists & Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Growing Threat. London: Taylor & Francis. Ackerman, Gary and Victor Asal A Historical Overview of Biological Weapons Identification, Characterization, and Attribution. In Anne Clunan, Peter Lavoy, and Susan Martin (Eds.), Terrorism, War or Disease? Unraveling the Use of Biological Weapons. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. Asal, Victor, Carter Johnson, and Jonathan Wilkenfeld Ethnopolitical Violence and Terrorism in the Middle East. In J.J. Hewitt, J. Wilkenfeld, and T. R. Gurr, (Eds.), Peace and Conflict. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers

4 Asal, Victor The ICONS Suite of Negotiation Simulations. In Steve Cohen, Kent E. Portney, Dean Rehberger, and Carolyn Thorsen, (Eds.), Virtual Decisions: Digital Simulations for Teaching Reasoning in the Social Science and Humanities. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. REPORTS Asal, Victor, and Amy Pate The Decline of Ethnic Political Discrimination In T. R. Gurr and M. G. Marshall (Eds.), Peace and Conflict 2005: A Global Survey of Armed Conflicts, Self-Determination Movements, and Democracy. College Park, MD: Center for International Development and Conflict Management. ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY Asal, Victor Ethnic Cleansing. In C. Neal Tate (Ed.), Governments Of The World. Macmillan Reference Books. UNDER REVIEW Asal, Victor The Preconditions for Ethnic Suicide Bombing Campaigns, Asal, Victor and Mitchell Brown Culture, Opportunity Structure, and the Politics of Domestic Violence and the Murder of Women. Asal, Victor, Gary Ackerman and R. Karl Rethemeyer Connections Can Be Toxic: Terrorist Organizational Factors and the Pursuit and Use of CBRN Terrorism. Asal, Victor, Naama Nagar and R. Karl Rethemeyer Do Good Neighbors Make Good Terrorists? The Dark Side of Social Capital. Asal, Victor and R. Karl Rethemeyer Targeting and Attacking America: Ideology and Capability. GRANTS FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES (OVER $ 1,100,000 BROUGHT INTO THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY) Co-PI on Research Grant Know Thyself: The Organizational Culture, Networks, and Behavior of Counterinsurgency and Stability Operations,. Phase I: May 1, 2009 January 31, Phase II: February 1, 2010 June 20, 2012 (tentative).. funded by the Office of Naval Research, Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare and Combating Terrorism (BAA ). With R. Karl Rethemeyer John Horgan and Mitchel Abolafia $447,856 Co-PI on Research Grant investigating The Ecology of Terrorist Organizations, funded by the National Science Foundation through its Human Social Dynamics program with Edward M. Crenshaw, Gary LaFree, VS Subrahmanian and Jonathan Wilkenfeld $140,

5 Co-PI on Research Grant Investigating Mass Casualty Terrorism (with Gary Ackerman), Ethnic Terrorism (with Jonathan Wilkenfeld) and Social Services and Terrorism (with Eli Berman) National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START Center, University of Maryland, College Park). $203,000. Co-PI on Research Grant on Domestic Terrorism & Political Violence: Empirical Models of Government & Dissident Tactics and Strategies in South & Southeast Asia. September With Stephen Shellman, PI (University of Georgia). National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA. $177,408 ($62,000 to U. Albany). Subcontract for BBN Technologies for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Award on Integrated Crisis Early Warning System (ICEWS), With R. Karl Rethemeyer (U. Albany) $305,000. Research Grant Investigating Terrorist Networks Terrorism With R. Karl Rethemeyer (U. Albany). National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START Center), University of Maryland, College Park. $35,000. Internship and Scholarship Money Award to Graduate and Undergraduate Students National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START Center), University of Maryland, College Park. Over $30,000. Workshop Grant for The Turn to Terror: Comparative Case Studies and Boolean Analyses International Studies Association, Tucson, AZ. $5000. Research Associate, Ethnic Terrorism and Mass Casualty Terrorism National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START Center), University of Maryland, College Park. $36,000. Dissertation Improvement Grant Race, Gender, Ethnicity, Class, and the Spread of Suffrage in Democracies. With Professor Ted R. Gurr (University of Maryland). National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA. $10,000. Robert H. Michel Civic Education Grant, Simulating Congressional Negotiations, with David Armstrong and David Gerwin (Queens College, NY). $4,900. FROM INTERNAL SOURCES Faculty Research Awards Program A Grant Devastatingly Practical Terrorism: Understanding and Combating Conventional Mass Casualty Terrorism. University at Albany, SUNY. $9,738. Individual Development Awards Program Proposal Building Ethnic Conflict Database. University at Albany, SUNY. $1000. The Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning Innovation Grant Bringing Undergraduates Into The Research Institution: The Undergraduate Research Course in Global Politics Project. University at Albany, SUNY. $4,640. Faculty Research Awards Program B Grant The Online Indigenous Mobilization Project. University at Albany, SUNY. $3,995. IT Commons Request for Proposals: Proposal for Interdisciplinary IT Positions on Contentious Politics and Information Technology Grant to fund half of a new - 5 -

6 line for Associate Professor. Drafted jointly with Professor Thomas Church. University at Albany, SUNY. (Amount not specified.) AWARDS 2007 Article of the Year Award. Journal of Peace Research, For Proliferation and International Crisis Behavior. With Kyle Beardsley (Emory University) in Journal of Peace Research 44(2): Martin Edelman Excellence in Teaching Award Department of Political Science, Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York. Excellence in Teaching Award College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland. Government and Politics Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland. Government and Politics Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland. PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS INVITED PRESENTATIONS, CONFERENCES, AND WORKSHOPS Asal, Victor. June Targeting and Attacking the United States, for the University of California Development and Conflict Research Conference, University of California San Diego. San Diego CA. Asal, Victor. May he Social Sciences and the Study of Terrorism, Presented at the Biologically Inspired Innovation Workshop organized by the Department of Homeland Security. Washington, D.C. Asal, Victor. April Organizations and the Choices of Terror, for the Florida Society for Middle East Studies Lecture Series, Florida Atlantic University. Boca Raton, FL Asal, Victor. April Organizations and the Choices of Terror, for the Delmar Humanities Institute for Lifelong Learning. Delmar, NY Asal, Victor. March From Violence to Voting: Organizational Factors, State Behavior and the Organizational Behavior of Minorities at Risk Organizations in the Middle East, At the Department of Homeland Security University Network Research Summit. Washington, D.C. Asal, Victor. February Social Network Analysis for Disaster Resiliency workshop organized by the National Research Council. Washington, D.C. Asal, Victor. January 2009 Defining a Deterrence Analytic Construct: Contributions of Social Science Research Areas Workshop sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Bethesda MD. Asal, Victor. December 2008 Prevention Working Group Workshop. Organized by the Folke Bernadotte Academy, Emory University, Atlanta Georgia

7 Asal, Victor. April Organizations and the Choices of Terror: Presented at the Transportation Security Administration Training Program organized by the Studies in Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism Center of Excellence. Washington, D.C. Asal, Victor. February Strategic Parameters for Teaching Controversies. Organized by the Difficult Dialogues and the Institute for Teaching, Learning, and Academic Leadership at the University at Albany, SUNY. Albany NY Asal, Victor. Kihoon Choi and Krishna Pattipati. January "Forecasting the Use of Violence in Ethnic-political Organizations: Middle Eastern Minorities, At Risk Minorities and the Choice of Violence" At the Modeling and Visualization Symposium organized by the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. Washington, D.C. Asal, Victor. January Organizations and the Choices of Terror: Big Allied and Deadly. Presented at the Social Science Modeling and Information Visualization Workshop. Washington, D.C. Asal, Victor. December Terrorist Organizations. Presented as Subject Matter Expert Speaker Series for Strategic Command. Washington, D.C. Asal, Victor. July Minorities At Risk Organizations and Terrorism. Presented at Department of Homeland Security Training Program. Washington, D.C. Asal, Victor. July Ethnic Terrorism. Presented at Summer Workshop on Teaching About Terrorism (SWOTT). Oklahoma University. Asal, Victor. June Ethnic Terrorism. Presented at Summer Workshop on Teaching About Terrorism (SWOTT). University of Maryland/START Center. Asal, Victor. June Ethnic Terrorism. Presented at Summer Workshop on Teaching About Terrorism (SWOTT). Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA. Asal, Victor. May Virtual Network Analysis and Terrorism. Presented at the Center for Dynamic Data Analysis (DyDAn). Rutgers, NJ. Asal, Victor and R. Karl Rethemeyer. May Terrorist Lethality. Presented at the NYFBI National Academy Associates Conference. Cooperstown, NY. Asal, Victor. November The Problem of Suicide Terrorism. Presented at School of Natural and Social Sciences Lecture Series, Purchase College, SUNY. Asal, Victor and Gary Ackerman. July Presented at Conference on Identification, Characterization and Attribution, of Biological Weapons. Center for Contemporary Conflict at the US Naval Postgraduate School and King s College London Centre for Science and Security Studies, London. Asal, Victor. July Ethnic Terrorism. Presented at Summer Workshop on Teaching About Terrorism (SWOTT). University of Georgia. Asal, Victor. June Ethnic Terrorism. Presented at Summer Workshop on Teaching About Terrorism (SWOTT). The College of William and Mary. Williamsburg, VA. Asal, Victor. August Suicide Terrorism. Presented at Terrorism/Countering Terrorism. Department of Homeland Security, Washington, D.C

8 Asal, Victor. October Scholar-in-Residence. Ethnic and Suicide Terrorism. Presented at School of Public Administration, Moscow State University. ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES Team Based Learning Workshop. May Organized by the Institute for Teaching, Learning, and Academic Leadership at the University at Albany, SUNY Blackboard Workshop. January Organized by the Institute for Teaching, Learning, and Academic Leadership at the University at Albany, SUNY Summer Workshop on Teaching about Terrorism (SWOTT). July College of William and Mary. Williamsburg, VA. University Teaching and Learning Program Certificate. Completed A Joint Initiative of the Center for Teaching Excellence and the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park. Advanced Training Certificate in Conflict Management Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM), University of Maryland, College Park. CONFERENCE PAPERS Kurt Rohloff and Victor Asal. Computational Methods to Discover Sets of Patterns of Behaviors that Precede Political Events of Interest. AAAI Spring Symposium on Technosocial Predictive Analytics, March Asal, Victor, Kihoon Choi and Krishna Pattipati. "Forecasting the Use of Violence in Ethnic-political Organizations: Middle Eastern Minorities, At Risk Minorities and the Choice of Violence" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA National Conference New York February 15, 2009 Asal, Victor and Anthony Lemieux. "Opportunity, Grievance, Personality and The Choice of Terrorism" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA 2008 Annual Meeting, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2008 Asal, Victor and Lewis Griffith. March Understanding the Characteristics of Non- State Groups that Choose to Take Direct Action Against the State Security Apparatus. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association. San Francisco, CA. Asal, Victor and D. Marc Kilgour. March How Terrorists and Governments Interact Over Time. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association. San Francisco, CA. Asal, Victor, Stephen M. Shellman and Brandon M. Stewart. November Regional Sticks: The Effects of President s Rule on Regional Terrorism in India, Paper presented at the annual meeting of Peace Science Society (International). Columbia, SC. Asal, Victor. August Organizational Factors and the Choice of Terrorism: Minorities At Risk Organizational Behavior in the Middle East. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL

9 Asal, Victor and Mitchell Brown. August Culture, Opportunity Structure, and the Politics of Domestic Violence and the Murder of Women. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. Asal, Victor and Paul Harwood. February/March Surfing in Multiple Tongues: Search Engines and Middle East Ethnopolitics. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association. San Diego, CA. Asal, Victor and D. Marc Kilgour. February/March A Simple Game of Terror. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association. San Diego, CA. Asal, Victor and R. Karl Rethemeyer. October The Nature of the Beast: Organizational Structures and the Lethality of Terrorist Attacks. Paper presented at the annual joint meeting of the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association and the International Security and Arms Control Section of the American Political Science Association. Tucson, AZ. Asal, Victor. March The Preconditions for Ethnic Suicide Bombing Campaigns Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association. San Diego, CA. Asal, Victor and Gary A. Ackerman. March Size Matters: Terrorist Organizational Factors and the Pursuit and Use of CBRN Terrorism. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association. San Diego, CA. Asal, Victor, Paul Harwood, and Naama Nagar. March Ethnopolitical Political Mobilization on the Web. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association. San Diego, CA. Asal, Victor. November Ethno-Nationalist Suicide Terrorism. Paper presented at the Peace Science Society Conference. Iowa City, IA. Asal, Victor and Paul Harwood. August/September Terror and the Web. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. Washington, D.C. Asal, Victor and Paul Harwood. March Minority Search: Ethnopolitical Mobilization Online. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association. Honolulu, HI. Asal, Victor and Benjamin Fordham. November Billiard Balls and Snowflakes: Do the Unit-level Characteristics of Leading States Influence Systemic Outcomes? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Peace Science Society. Houston, TX. Asal, Victor. October Holy Terror and Mass Killings? Reexamining the Motivations and Methods of Mass Casualty Terrorists. Paper presented at the Center For International Development And Conflict Management of The University of Maryland Conference on Non-State Actors, Terrorism, and Weapons Of Mass Destruction. College Park, MD. Asal, Victor. April The International and Domestic Impact of Democracy: Minimal Political Inclusion of Minorities at Risk Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL

10 Asal, Victor. March Minimally Political Inclusive States: The Case of Minorities at Risk Paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Conference. Montreal, Quebec. Asal, Victor, David Quinn, Kathleen Young, and Jonathan Wilkenfeld. March Mediation and the Relative Power of Crisis Actors: An Experimental Analysis. Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Conference. Montreal, Quebec. Asal, Victor and Elizabeth Blake Creating Simulations for Political Science Education. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. Philadelphia, PA. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2000 to Present Co-Designed and developed the Minorities At Risk Organizational Behavior Database Project to code all organizations claiming to represent MAR groups for their Organizational Behavior, including terrorist actions funded through the National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. Since Building Political Inclusion Database collecting data on 162 countries, from 1870 to the present, for ethnic groups. University of Maryland. Research Associate for the Crisis and Negotiation Research Group led by Professor Jonathan Wilkenfeld, University of Maryland Project Collection Coordinator of Data for the Minorities At Risk Project, adding a new set of variables on population distribution, University of Maryland. COURSES TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY, SUNY Graduate Classes Political Violence: Terrorism and Insurgency Ethnic Conflict Contentious Politics Comparative Field Seminar Political Inclusion Undergraduate Classes Violent Political Conflict Ethnic Conflict Introduction to World Politics Research and Method in Global Politics Research and Method in Political Science Politics of the Developing World RELATED TEACHING EXPERIENCE

11 2001 to present Lecturer and developer of workshops on negotiation and crisis leadership for the United States Office of Personnel Management, Eastern Management Development Center. Shepherdstown, WV. ACTED AS REVIEWER FOR FOLLOWING JOURNALS American Journal of Political Science Comparative Political Studies Conflict Management and Peace Science Cambridge Review of International Affairs Foreign Policy Analysis International Migration International Studies Perspectives International Studies Review International Studies Quarterly Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal of Political Science Education Journal of Politics Politics &Policy Security Studies MEMBERSHIPS American Political Science Association International Studies Association Peace Science Society ACADEMIC SERVICE AT THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY Director, Public Security Studies Certificate in Department of Public Policy and Administration, Nelson A. Rockefeller of College Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, SUNY. Member, Second Year Evaluation Committee for Thomas Walker. Member, Committee to reevaluate graduate student program, Member, Retention Sub-Committee/Teaching & Learning Committee, Member, Faculty International New Experience Awards Committee, Nelson A. Rockefeller of College Public Affairs and Policy Representative, Honors College Board, ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY TALKS Biological, Chemical and Nuclear Terrorism. April Presented at the United Jewish Federation Chaim Weizmann Society. Albany, NY. Simulations for Social Science Classes. November Presented at the Center of Excellence of Teaching and Learning. University at Albany, SUNY

12 Pi Sigma Alpha Graduate School Informational Roundtable, November University at Albany, SUNY. The State of the Union. February A Round Table Discussion organized by the Graduate Association of Political Scientists. University at Albany, SUNY. Ethnopolitical Mobilization Online. March Presented at the SUNY Albany Political Science Colloquium. University at Albany, SUNY. Going on the Job Market April Presented to the Graduate Association of Political Scientists. University at Albany, SUNY. Government Policy and Ethnic Terror March Presented at Rockefeller Policy Lunch Series. University at Albany, SUNY. Israel s Political Realignment February Presented at the Bet Shraga Hebrew Academy of the Capital District Learn-a-thon. Albany, NY. Challenges of Studying Terrorism. December Presented at Decision and Policy Sciences Brownbag Lunch Series. University at Albany, SUNY. Moderated student discussion of Fahrenheit 9/11. October 2004 Shown in Livingston Tower, University at Albany, SUNY. Mass Casualty Terror-The Empirical Record. October Presented at the Public Administration Ph.D. Brownbag Lunch Series. University at Albany, SUNY. The Politics of Israel. Fall Presented at University at Albany Hillel. University at Albany, SUNY