Curriculum Vitae MICHAEL MOUSSEAU Department of Political Science University of Central Florida Email: Michael.Mousseau@UCF.edu Web: http://politicalscience.cos.ucf.edu/people/mousseau-michael/ Fields: Sub-fields: Research Areas: Political Science; International Relations; Comparative Politics International Conflict and Security; International Relations Theory; Political Economy Conflict and security (within and among nations); roots of terrorism; political development, including democratization and human rights. Academic Experience University of Central Florida Koç University Professor, 2015 ; Associate Professor, 2013 2015. Professor, 2010 ; Associate Professor, 2002 2010; Assistant Professor, 1998 2002. Columbia University Visiting Scholar, Saltzman Institute of War & Peace Studies, 2010 2011. Harvard University Research Fellow, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2005 2006. Yale University Research Fellow, United Nations Studies. Summer 2003. Harvard University Research Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Summers 2000, 2002, 2012.
Education Ph.D. Political Science, Binghamton University, New York, May 1998. Dissertation: Peace in Anarchy: Democratic Governance and International Conflict Dissertation Supervisor: Stuart A. Bremer (deceased 2002) M.A. International Studies, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, May 1991. B.A. Political Science, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, May 1986. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Summer Program in Quantitative Methods. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Summer 1994. Ethnographic research in the Middle East (1984); Central America (1985-86; 1987); Russia and the Caucasus at the end of the Soviet period (1991); East Africa (1991); and India (1992). Publications Refereed Research Articles 1. Grasping the Scientific Evidence: The Contractualist Peace Supersedes the Democratic Peace, Conflict Management and Peace Science, (forthcoming), published online before print January 28, 2016, doi: 10.1177/0738894215616408. 2. Why Some Countries are Immune from the Resource Curse (with Erdem Aytac and Omer Orsun), Democratization, Vol. 23, No. 1 (2016), pp. 71-92. 3. The Democratic Peace Unraveled: It s the Economy, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 1 (March 2013), pp. 186 197. 4. Capitalist Development and Civil War, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 3 (September 2012), pp. 470-483. 5. Urban Poverty and Support for Islamist Terror: Survey Results from Muslims in Fourteen Countries, Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 48, No. 1 (January 2011), pp. 35-47. 6. The Social Market Roots of Democratic Peace, International Security, Vol. 33. No. 44 (Spring 2009), pp. 52-86. 7. The Contracting Roots of Human Rights, (with Demet Yalçin Mousseau), Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 45. No. 3 (May 2008), pp. 327-344. Mousseau Curriculum Vitae - page 2 of 10
8. Comparing New Theory with Prior Beliefs: Market Civilization and the Democratic Peace, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Spring 2005), pp. 63-77. Reprints: The Causes of International Conflict: Data, Methods and Theory, edited by Glenn Palmer (Taylor and Francis, 2007). 9. The Nexus of Market Society, Liberal Preferences, and Democratic Peace: Interdisciplinary Theory and Evidence, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 3 (September 2003), pp. 483-510. 10. How the Wealth of Nations Conditions the Liberal Peace (with John R. Oneal and Håvard Hegre), European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 9, No. 2 (June 2003), pp. 277-314. 11. Market Civilization and its Clash with Terror, International Security, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Winter 2002-03), pp. 5-29. Reprints: Contending with Terrorism: Roots, Strategies, and Responses, edited by Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Coté Jr., Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller (MIT Press, 2010). Twentieth Century International Relations, Vol. 8: Beyond the 20th Century, edited by Michael Cox (SAGE, 2007). New Global Dangers: Changing Dimensions of International Security, edited by Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Coté Jr., Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller (MIT Press, 2004). 12. An Economic Limitation to the Zone of Democratic Peace and Cooperation, International Interactions, Vol. 28, No. 2 (April 2002), pp. 137-164. 13. Market Prosperity, Democratic Consolidation, and Democratic Peace, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 44, No. 4 (August 2000), pp. 472-507. 14. A Test for Reverse Causality in the Democratic Peace Relationship (with Yuhang Shi), Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 36, No. 6 (November 1999), pp. 639-663. 15. Democracy and Compromise in Militarized Interstate Conflicts, 1816 1992, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 42, No. 2 (April 1998), pp. 210-230. 16. Democracy and Militarized Interstate Collaboration, Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 34, No. 1 (February 1997), pp. 73-87. Invited Correspondences and Commentaries in Journals 1. Commentaries: The Capitalist Peace, (with Richard Rosecrance, Bruce Russett and Erich Weede), International Interactions, Vol. 36, No. 2 (2010), pp. 185-192. Reprints: Mousseau Curriculum Vitae - page 3 of 10
Assessing the Capitalist Peace, edited by Gerald Schneider and Nils Petter Gleditsch (Routledge, 2012). 2. Correspondence: The Sources of Terrorism (with Charles Knight and Melissa Murphy), International Security, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Fall 2003), pp. 192-198. Chapters in Books 1. How the Contractualist Peace Overtook the Democratic Peace (with Xiongwei Cao) in William Thompson, Oxford Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations Theory, Oxford University Press (Forthcoming). 2. Does the Market-Capitalist Peace Supersede the Democratic Peace? The Evidence Still Says Yes (with Omer Orsun and Jameson Ungerer) in Gerald Schneider and Nils Petter Gleditsch (editors), Assessing the Capitalist Peace, Routledge, 2012. 3. Capitalism and Peace: It s Keynes, not Hayek (with Omer Orsun, Jameson Ungerer, and Demet Yalcin Mousseau) in Gerald Schneider and Nils Petter Gleditsch (editors), Assessing the Capitalist Peace, Routledge, 2012. 4. A Market-Capitalist or a Democratic Peace? in John Vasquez, What Do We Know About War? 2 nd Edition, Rowman and Littlefield, 2012. 5. Terrorism and Export Economies: The Dark Side of Free Trade, in The Making of a Terrorist: Recruitment, Training, and Root Causes, Volume III, edited by James Forest. Praeger Publishers (November 2005). 6. Globalization, Markets, and Democracy: An Anthropological Linkage, in Globalization and Civilizations, edited by Mehdi Mozaffari. London: Routledge (August 2002), pp. 97-124. Book Reviews 1. Beatrice Heuser, Evolution of Strategy: Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 10 (2012), pp. 1117-1118. 2. Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis and Barry R. Weingast, Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), Journal of Peace Research,, Vol. 48, No. 1 (January 2011). 3. Karen Rasler & William Thompson, Puzzles of the Democratic Peace: Theory, Geopolitics and the Transformation of World Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), Some Mousseau Curriculum Vitae - page 4 of 10
Systemic Roots of the Democratic Peace, International Studies Review, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring 2007), pp. 93-95. 4. Hooman Peimani, Falling Terrorism and Rising Conflicts: The Afghan Contribution to Polarization and Confrontation in West and South Asia (Westport: Praeger 2003). Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 38, No. 3 (April 2005), pp. 327-329. Invited Talks, Roundtables, & Workshops The Political Economy of Power Projection. University of Southern California Center for International Studies Annual Symposium, November 2016, Los Angelos, California. Critiquing the Democratic Peace: Nails in the Coffin of a Dying Research Agenda? Annual meeting of the International Studies Association, 2014, Toronto, Canada Capitalism, Democracy, and War: A Liberal Theory of International Relations?" University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, October 15, 2010. Does the Capitalist Peace Trump the Democratic Peace? Yes it Does. Rutgers University, October 4, 2010. The Economic Peace. Presentation of economic norms theory before the Storting (Norwegian Parliament) Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, sponsored by Civita (a Norwegian think-tank), Oslo, Norway, March 3, 2010. Social Markets versus Free Markets in the Capitalist Peace. Civita (a Norwegian thinktank), Oslo, Norway, March 3, 2010. Political Strategy in the War on Terror: Some Common Roots of Sectarianism and Democratic Peace. Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Oct 14, 2005. The Sources of Terrorism. Turkish Euro Atlantic Youth Committee (NATO related), Istanbul, 2006. Courses Taught University of Central Florida: Global Political Issues (INR 3016), undergraduate (various years, online and face-to-face); Theoretical Approaches in Security Studies (INR 7687) (1), doctorate; International Relations Theory (INR 6607), masters & doctorate (3). Koç University: International Relations Pro-seminar, doctorate (4); International Conflict and Security undergraduate, masters (5); Introduction to International Relations undergraduate (various years); Research Methods, undergraduate (various years); American Politics and Mousseau Curriculum Vitae - page 5 of 10
Foreign Policy, undergraduate (various years); Globalization and International Relations, undergraduate (various years). Administrative Positions & Committees Director, Graduate Studies (PhD and MA), Department of Political Science, University of Central Florida, 2014 -. Committees (chair): MA Program; PhD Program; PhD Assessment. Committees (member): MA Asssessment; College of Science Curriculum Committee. Department Coordinator (head) (2000-2002). Responsibilities included, inter alia, course planning and assignments; external relations; initiating committees and committee memberships. Committee service before 2013: PhD planning and curriculum (various years); undergraduate curriculum (various years); graduate admissions (various years); PhD examination [head] (2011, 2012, 2013); guest seminar coordinator (1999-2000); disciplinary (various years); promotion (various years); recruitment (various years). Grants and Awards Visiting Scholar, Saltzman Institute of War & Peace Studies, Columbia University, 2010 2011. Research Fellow, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. 2005 2006. Research Fellow, United Nations Studies, Yale University. Summer 2003. Research Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University. Summers 2000, 2002, 2012. Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Annual Meeting of the Peace Science Society (International), Columbus, Ohio, 1995. Dissertation Year Fellowship (university wide competition), State University of New York at Binghamton, 1995-1996. Graduate Assistantships, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1992-1995, 1996-1997. Member of Pi Sigma Alpha: The Political Science National Honor Society. Mousseau Curriculum Vitae - page 6 of 10
Conference Papers 1. Democracies Do Not Win Their Wars: Nations With Advanced Markets Win Their Wars. Presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Baltimore, MD, February 2017. Refereed. 2. How Market-Capitalism Causes Democracy and Peace: The Internal and External Origins of Democratic Transitions and Survival. Presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Baltimore, MD, February 2017. Refereed. 3. The Domestic Sources of Balancing and Bandwagoning: The Soft Power of the Contractualist Hegemony. Presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, March 2016. Refereed. 4. The Economic Origins of International Organization (with Xiongwei Cao). Presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, March 2016. Refereed. 5. The Economic Origins of Political Rights (with Demet Mousseau). Presented at the annual meeting of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, Austria, June 2015. 6. The Economic Origins of Democratic Values and Institutions. Presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, March 2015. 7. The Contractualist Peace presented at the annual meeting of the Peace Science Society, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2013. 8. Rational and Structural Correlates of Anti-Americanism: A Multilevel Analysis of Pew Data, (with Cem Birol) presented at the annual Eurasian Peace Science meeting, January 2012. 9. Does the Capitalist Peace Trump the Democratic Peace? presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, 2011. Earlier draft presented at the American Political Science Association, Washington DC, August 2010. 10. Capitalism, Democracy, and War, presented at the Tenth International CISS Millennium Conference, July 4-5, 2010, Venice, Italy. 11. Capitalist Development and Civil War, prepared for presentation at the fifth general conference of the European Consortium for Political Research, Potsdam, Germany, September 10-12, 2009. 12. Testing the Root Causes of Islamist Terror, prepared for presentation at the 63rd annual meeting of the New York State Political Science Association, 24-25 April, 2009, John Jay College, New York, NY. 13. How Economic Development Makes Civil War Unthinkable, presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 28-31, 2008. 14. The Evolution of Markets and Civil Conflict, (with Demet Yalcin), presented at the annual meeting of the European Consortium for Political Research, September 6-8, 2007. 15. Nationalism and Sectarian Conflict: A Perspective from Economic Institutionalism, (with Demet Yalcin), presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, April 14-16, 2007. 16. The Anti-Modern Roots of al-qaeda, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 31, 2006. 17. The Socioeconomic Roots of Democratic Peace, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2, 2006. 18. The Socioeconomy of Insurgency and Terror, (with Demet Yalcin), presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2, 2005. Mousseau Curriculum Vitae - page 7 of 10
19. How Market Culture Alleviates Ethnic Tensions: Theory and Evidence, (with Demet Yalcin), presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Association for Conflict Management, Seville, June 15, 2005. 20. The Rise of Market Civilization and the Changing Global Order, presented at the International Convention of the Central and East European International Studies Association, Budapest, June 26-28, 2003. 21. Market Culture and Peace Among Nations: It s the Market Democracies that Ally, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 2002. 22. The Promise of Cultural Materialism for Peace Research, presented at the Amsterdam Peace Science Conference, June 12-14, 2002, Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam. 23. The Management of Political Violence in Ethnically Plural Societies (with Demet Yalcin), presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Association for Conflict Management, Paris, France, June 2001. 24. The Enlargement of the European Union: A Cultural Materialist Approach (with Demet Yalcin), presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Political Science Association, Quebec City, Canada, August 2000. 25. The Explanatory Power of Cultural Materialism in World Politics, presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Political Science Association, Quebec City, Canada, August 2000 26. Explaining the Conflict in Kosovo: Market Democracy and Collaboration in Militarized Interstate Disputes, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Peace Science Society (International), Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 1999. 27. Modernization Theory and the Democratic Peace: Developed Democratic Nations Are More Peaceful than Other States, presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Washington, DC, February 1999. 28. Democracy, Development, and Common Interests: An Analysis of UN Voting Patterns, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Peace Science Society (International), New Brunswick, NJ, October 1998. 29. Is Russia a Member of the Democratic Peace? presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Minneapolis, MN, February 1998. 30. Democracy, Economic Development, and Interstate Peace, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Peace Science Society (International), 1997. 31. The Democratic Peace and Reverse Causality: Does War Lead to Autocracy? (with Yuhang Shi), presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1996. 32. Democracy and Militarized Interstate Collaboration, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Peace Science Society (International), 1995. 33. Testing the Democratic Bonds, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1995. 34. Towards Unraveling the Mystery: Democracy and Interstate Conflict, 1816 1984, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1994. 35. The Democratic Peace: Monadic or Dyadic?, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, 1993. Mousseau Curriculum Vitae - page 8 of 10