Risa Alexandra Brooks, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Political Science Marquette University

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1 Risa Alexandra Brooks, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Political Science Marquette University PRIMARY RESEARCH INTERESTS International Security/Security Studies; Civil-Military Relations; Terrorism & Militant Organizations; Middle East Politics EDUCATION Ph.D. Political Science, University of California, San Diego, 2000 B.A. International Relations (major)/economics (minor), Mills College, Oakland, CA, 1991; Honors awarded at graduation PAST EMPLOYMENT AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, Mills College, Oakland, CA and Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, Affiliated Scholar Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, Predoctoral fellow fall 1999; Postdoctoral Fellow winter and spring International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, U.K., Research Associate and contributor to Adelphi Paper Publication Series 1998 Summer Workshop in Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS), Ithaca, NY, participant John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, Predoctoral Affiliate 1995 Hoover Summer Institute on International Politics, Stanford University, participant 1993 Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Summer Program, Ann Arbor, Michigan, participant HONORS AND AWARDS 2008 Awarded Northwestern University s Department of Political Science s R. Barry Farrell Prize for excellence in teaching Awarded University Research Grant 2002 Elected to Term Membership at Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY Received grant from D.C. Searle and the Donors Trust for support of military effectiveness workshops and book-project Received Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California Dissertation Fellowship ( ); Fellowship Renewal ( )

2 PUBLICATIONS Books Shaping Strategy: The Civil-Military Politics of Strategic Assessment. Princeton University Press, May Creating Military Power: The Sources of Military Effectiveness (co-edited with Elizabeth Stanley), Stanford University Press, April Articles and Other Publications Researching Democracy and Terrorism: How Political Access affects Militant Activity Security Studies 18:4, (December 2009). An Autocracy at War: Explaining Egypt s (in)effectiveness in the 1967 and 1973 Arab- Israeli Wars Security Studies 15, no. 3 (July-September 2006): Making Military Might: Why Do States Fail and Succeed: A Review Essay International Security 28, no. 2 (Fall 2003), Sanctions and Regime Type: What Works and When? Security Studies 11, no. 4 (Summer 2002), Militaries and Political Activity in Democracies Essay for inclusion in American Civil-Military Relations: The Soldier and the State in a New Era edited by Suzanne Nielson and Don Snider, Johns Hopkins University Press, Civil-military Relations in Nora Bensahel and Daniel Byman, eds. Security Trends in the Middle East and the Implications for the United States, RAND Corporation, The Military and Homeland Security, Public Administration and Management 10, no. 2 (2005), Liberalization and Militancy in the Arab World Orbis 26:4 (Fall 2002), Political-military Relations and the Stability of Arab Regimes, Adelphi Paper, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Oxford University Press: London, December, WORKING PAPERS Homegrown Terrorism: How Serious is the Threat in the United States? The Limits of Sanctuary: how remote sanctuaries influence terrorists ability to attack Western targets? The Targeting Dilemma: how referent communities influence whether terrorists attack civilians versus regime allies

3 INVITED UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSIONAL TALKS University of California, Berkeley, Monday International Relations Thought Series (mirth), Why do terrorists kill civilians versus soldiers? The dilemmas of terrorist targeting. October 25, and Cooperation, Why do terrorists kill civilians versus soldiers? October 28, University of Notre Dame, International Security Program (NDISP), Assessing the Threat of Home Grown Terrorism: Is the Conventional View Correct? October 6, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Strategic Use of Force Working Group, What is the Threat Posed by Terrorist Safe Havens? May 5, Brown Bag Seminar Presentation, Politics and the U.S. Military National War College, Washington D.C., March 10, University of Chicago, Program in International Security Policy (PISP), Societies and Terrorist Campaign Violence, October 29, Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) seminar series Creating Military Power, November 29, University of California, Los Angeles, Comparative Politics Workshop, From Militants to Democrats: How do political opportunities influence terrorist group strategy, April 23, 2007 University of Texas, Austin, International Affairs Specialization Colloquium, The Civil- Military Politics of Strategic Assessment, November 14, 2006 University of Chicago, Program in International Security Policy (PISP), Creating Military Power, November 7, 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Security Studies Program, The Civil-Military Politics of Strategic Assessment, April 5, and Cooperation, Getting it Right (and Wrong): Civil-military politics and strategic assessment in comparative perspective, October 13, 2004 University of California, San Diego, Civil-Military Relations and Strategic Assessment, May 20, 2004 Columbia University, International Politics Seminar (CUIPS), Civil-Military Relations and Strategic Assessment, March 8, 2004 Harvard University, Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Civil-Military Relations, Strategic Assessment and War, April 28, 2003 University of Chicago, Program on Internal Political Economy and Security (PIPES), Military Institutions, Strategic Assessment and War, April 3, 2003 and Cooperation, What Works, and When: Sanctions and Regime Type May 30, 2001 and Cooperation, "Controlling the Military: Who Does it, How and When?" February 24, 2000

4 Harvard University, Endogenous Institutions and Grand Strategy, Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, National Security Seminar, February 1997 (SELECT ) SMALL CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism and New America Foundation conference, Cutting the Fuse: Moving beyond the War on Terror, October 12, 2010, moderator, breakout session on terrorism. War and Military Operations in the 21 st : Civil-Military Implications Conference by Triangle Institute of Security Studies, Department of War Studies, Kings College London, Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense, UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Chapel Hill Campus, April 8-9, Presentation on What to teach undergraduates? Tobin Project Conference, America & the World: Power through its Prudent Use, panel moderator for A grand strategy of restraint, December 4-6, Inter-university Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, presenter, panel on Exploring Civil-Military Principles in Contemporary National Security Affairs October 24, Realism and the Next U.S. President: National Interests, Grand Strategy, and the Use of Force; A conference to celebrate, honor, and recognize the contributions of Professor Robert J. Art to International Relations, Security, and U.S. Policy presentation on Terrorism and U.S. Policy, Georgetown University, April 11, 2008 Chicago Project on Suicide Terrorism, (CPOST), University of Chicago, paper presented Democracy and Terrorism: what are the Links?, September 28, American Civil-Military Relations: Fifty Years after The Soldier and the State, presentation on Political Strategies of the Military in Democracies, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, May 31-June 2, 2007 Measuring National Power Rand Corporation and U.S. Government sponsored conference, September 28-29, 2004 Washington D.C. Junior Faculty Workshop, Georgetown University, presentation on Civil-Military Relations and Strategic Assessment, October 23-24, 2003 North-South Workshop (Collaboration between International Relations Faculty at University of Chicago and Northwestern University), presentation on Military Institutions, Strategic Assessment and War, at Northwestern University Law School, May 2003 New Faces in International Security Conference, Triangle Institute for Security Studies (a consortium of Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and NCSU), paper presented on Institutions at the International and Domestic Nexus: the politicalmilitary origins of military effectiveness, strategic integration and war, Regal University Hotel, Durham, NC. September 21-23, 2000 "Conference on the October 1973 War," Middle East Institute, Washington D.C., Oct. 9-10, 1998 "Armed Forces and Society in the Middle East," presentation for International Institute for Strategic Studies Conference, Beirut, Lebanon, September 27-29, "A Crisis in Civilian Control? Contending Theories of American Civil-Military Relations," Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, presentation on "Political-Military

5 Relations, Endogenous Institutions and Grand Strategy: the political origins of oversight and policy coherence," June 11-12, DISCIPLINE WIDE CONFERENCES (SINCE 2006) Homegrown Terrorism: How Serious is the Threat? The American Political Science Association, Washington D.C, September 2-5, Societies and Terrorist Violence paper presented at the annual meetings of the International Studies Association, February 17-20, 2010, New Orleans, LA. Researching Terrorism: Some Steps Forward paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, Canada, September 3-6, 2009 Roundtable: Shaping Strategy: Civil-Military Relations and Foreign Policy, [panel organized by section chair to discuss Shaping Strategy], Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago IL, April 2, Political Strategies of the Military, paper presented at the annual meetings of the International Studies Association, New York, NY, February 15-18, 2009 "Military Effectiveness," discussant for panel at the at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA August 28-31, 2008 Social Support and Terrorist Strategy paper presented at annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA August 28-31, 2008 Society and the Terrorist: How does Social Support affect Militant Group Strategy, paper presented at annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August 31-September 2, From Militants to Democrats: How do political opportunities influence terrorist group strategy, paper presented at annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, IL, 28 February-3 March, 2007 The Sources of Military Effectiveness, paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 31-September 3, 2006 Civil-military Signals: Assessing Resolve in Interstate Conflicts paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, San Diego, CA, March 22-25, 2006 Creating Military Power: the impact of social, cultural, institutional and global forces on military effectiveness, paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 30-September 3, PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Political Science Association; International Studies Association; Inter- University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, Women in International Security (SELECT) SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION Governing Board, International Security Studies Section, International Studies Association (2007-present); Book Award Committee Academic Outreach Committee, Council on Foreign Relations ( )

6 Division Program Chair for 2010 APSA meetings, International History and Politics Section