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); Terrorism and insurgency; political development. Academic Experience University of Central Florida Koç University Columbia University Harvard University Professor, 2015 ; Associate Professor, 2013 2015. Professor, 2010 ; Associate Professor, 2002 2010; Assistant Professor, 1998 2002. Visiting Scholar, Saltzman Institute of War & Peace Studies, 2010 2011. 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, 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. Mousseau Curriculum Vitae - page 2 of 14
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. 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. Mousseau Curriculum Vitae - page 3 of 14
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: 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), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. http://politics.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acre fore-9780190228637-e-289. 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, 2013. 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, 2013. Mousseau Curriculum Vitae - page 4 of 14
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 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. Papers in Progress 1. Dangerous Democracies: Democratic Nations Fight Each Other More Than Other Nations, 1816 to 2001. Mousseau Curriculum Vitae - page 5 of 14
2. The Zero Costs of War, 1816 to 2007: A Challenge for Liberal Trade Theory (with Spencer Miller). 3. Four Ways We Know the Democratic Peace Correlation Does Not Exist. 4. The Culture of Capitalism and the Mythology of Markets: A New Perspective on the Origins of Inequality 5. First Rule with China: Do No Harm (with Xiongwei Cao). 6. A New Liberal Theory of Global Politics: The Domestic Origins of Balancing, Bandwagoning, and the Emerging Peace. 7. How Income Consolidates the Democratic Rule of Law and Rights (with Demet Yalcin Mousseau). 8. Democracies Do Not Win Their Wars: Capitalist Nations Win Their Wars. 9. The Wealth of Democratic Nations: How Emerging Markets Cause Democratic Transitions, Consolidation, and Diffusion. 10. The Capitalist Origins of International Organization (with Xiongwei Cao). Book in Progress Grasping the Emerging Peace: How the Culture of Capitalism is Changing the World (preliminary title, estimated completion date spring 2019). Invited Talks, Roundtables, & Workshops The Capitalist Origins of Global Inequality. Innovations in Comparative Capitalism: The State of the Field. A Joint Conference by the University of Utah and the University of Sydney, Sponsored by the Betty Glad Foundation and the Scholars Strategy Network. University of Utah. September 27-29, 2017. Mousseau Curriculum Vitae - page 6 of 14
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? Roundtable participant (with Miriam Elman, Michal Hass, Piki Ish-Shalom, Margaret Hermann, John Mearshimer, and Brian Rathbun), 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 think-tank), 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. Professional Activities Editorial Board Memberships: International Studies Quarterly, 2010-2014. Founder, Eurasian Peace Science Network http://conflictstudiescenter.ku.edu.tr/eurasian_peace_science_network.html. Mousseau Curriculum Vitae - page 7 of 14
Organized Panels & Conferences: Eurasian Peace Science annual meetings 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013. The Emerging Capitalist Peace, panel organized for the Conflict Processes section of the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington DC, September 2010. Grant Reviewer: National Science Foundation; Israel Science Foundation; Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Manuscript Reviewer: American Journal of Political Science; American Political Science Review; British Journal of Political Science; Comparative Political Studies; Civil Wars; Conflict Management and Peace Science; European Journal of International Relations; International Interactions; International Journal of Disaster Relief; International Organization; International Security; International Studies Quarterly; International Theory; Journal of Conflict Resolution; The Journal of Global Security Studies; Journal of International Relations and Development; Journal of Inter- Cultural Studies; Journal of Peace Research; Journal of Politics; Review of International Studies; Security Journal; Political Research Quarterly; Terrorism and Political Violence; University of Pennsylvania Press; World Development. Conference Paper, Discussant & Panel Chair Participations: American Political Science Association (various years), Association for the Study of Nationalities (2007), Amsterdam Peace Science Conference (2002), European Consortium for Political Research (2005, 2007, 2009), International Political Science Association (2000), International Studies Association (various years), International Association for Conflict Management (2001, 2005), Peace Science Society (International) (various years). Professional Affiliations: American Political Science Association, Eurasian Peace Science Network, International Studies Association, International Association for Conflict Management, Network of European Peace Scientists, Peace Science Society (International), Standing Group on International Relations of the European Consortium for Political Research. Google Scholar Citation Count: 1,493 (May, 2018) Courses Taught University of Central Florida: Mousseau Curriculum Vitae - page 8 of 14
Undergraduate: INR 3016 Global Political Issues; INR 4008 Global Perspectives Graduate: INR 7687 Theoretical Approaches in Security Studies (PhD); INR 6607 International Relations Theory (MA & PhD); INR 6108 Seminar in American Foreign Policy (MA & PhD) 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 Foreign Policy, undergraduate (various years); Globalization and International Relations, undergraduate (various years). Publications with Graduate Students 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. Why Some Countries are Immune from the Resource Curse (with Erdem Aytac and Omer Orsun), Democratization, Vol. 23, No. 1 (2016) DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2014.964216. 3. 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. 4. 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. Dissertation Committee Chairs 1. Crouching Panda Or Hidden Dragon? Market Economy, Conflict Behavior and China s Peaceful Rise. Xiongwei Cao, University of Central Florida. Expected completion in fall 2017. Mousseau Curriculum Vitae - page 9 of 14
Master Theses Chairs 1. Does War Pay? Spencer Miller, University of Central Florida. Masters Thesis, defended March 2015. 2. Correlates of Anti-Americanism. Cem Birol, Koç University. Masters Thesis, defended June 2012. 2. Lakatosian Analysis and Evolving Conceptions of Peace: The Story of the Democratic Peace Research Program. Jameson Lee Ungerer, Koç University. Masters Thesis, defended May 2011. 3. Why are Some Countries Immune to the Negative Political Effects of Natural Resource Wealth: An Empirical Analysis. Erdem Aytaç, Koç University. Masters Thesis, defended June 2009. 4. Factors Affecting Approval of Islamist Terror in Predominantly Muslim Countries. Nail Tanrıöven, Koç University. Masters Thesis, defended June 2009. 5. The Political Economy of Extremism: Comparing the Historical Records of Turkey and Germany. Özgen Yıldız, Koç University. Masters Thesis, defended June 2009. 6. Tracing the Roots of Modernity: Ancient Greece, the Golden Age of Islam and Renaissance Italy. Hande Öğütcü, Koç University. Masters Thesis, defended July 2006. Dissertation and Masters Committee Memberships 2013+ Dissertation: o Xiongwei Cao (in progress), chair o Marcos Rosas D. Pontes (defended May 2016) MA Thesis: o Spencer Miller (defended Spring 2014), chair o Matthew Benchimal (defended Spring 2015) o Clayton Besaw (defended Spring 2014) Mousseau Curriculum Vitae - page 10 of 14
Administrative Positions & Committees Director, Graduate Studies (PhD and MA), Department of Political Science, University of Central Florida, 2014 2017. Committees (chair): MA/PhD Programs; MA/PhD Assessments. Committees (member): MA/PhD Asssessments (Dept.); Curriculum (College of Science); Promotion (College of Science); Personal; 7-Year Assessment. Department Coordinator (head) (Koc University, 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). Service at the University of Central Florida College of Science Promotion College of Science Curriculum Director, Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science PhD Committee (chair) MA Committee (chair) PhD Assessment (chair) MA Assessment (chair) Personel 7-Year Assesment Journal List Committee Strategic Planning Tenure & Promotion Job Search (1) Mousseau Curriculum Vitae - page 11 of 14
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 12 of 14
Conference Papers 1. What Costs of War? A Cost-Benefit Analysis of War Initiations, 1816 to 2010 (with Spencer Miller). Presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, April 2018. Refereed. 2. What Democratic Peace? Democratic Neighbors Fight Each Other More Than Other Types of States, 1816 to 2010. Presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, April 2018. Refereed. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. 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. 6. The Economic Origins of International Organization (with Xiongwei Cao). Presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, March 2016. Refereed. 7. The Economic Origins of Political Rights (with Demet Mousseau). Presented at the annual meeting of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, Austria, June 2015. 8. The Economic Origins of Democratic Values and Institutions. Presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, March 2015. 9. How Income Causes Democracy: The Credibility of Commitments and the Contractualist Hegemony. Presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Toronto, CA, March 2014. 10. The Contractualist Peace presented at the annual meeting of the Peace Science Society, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2013. 11. 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. 12. 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. 13. Capitalism, Democracy, and War, presented at the Tenth International CISS Millennium Conference, July 4-5, 2010, Venice, Italy. 14. 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. Mousseau Curriculum Vitae - page 13 of 14
15. 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. 16. How Economic Development Makes Civil War Unthinkable, presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 28-31, 2008. 17. 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. 18. 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. 19. The Anti-Modern Roots of al-qaeda, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 31, 2006. 20. The Socioeconomic Roots of Democratic Peace, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2, 2006. 21. The Socioeconomy of Insurgency and Terror, (with Demet Yalcin), presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2, 2005. 22. 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. 23. 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. 24. 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. 25. The Promise of Cultural Materialism for Peace Research, presented at the Amsterdam Peace Science Conference, June 12-14, 2002, Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam. 26. 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. 27. 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. 28. 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 29. 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. Mousseau Curriculum Vitae - page 14 of 14
30. 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. 31. 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. 32. Is Russia a Member of the Democratic Peace? presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Minneapolis, MN, February 1998. 33. Democracy, Economic Development, and Interstate Peace, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Peace Science Society (International), 1997. 34. 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. 35. Democracy and Militarized Interstate Collaboration, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Peace Science Society (International), 1995. 36. Testing the Democratic Bonds, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1995. 37. Towards Unraveling the Mystery: Democracy and Interstate Conflict, 1816 1984, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1994. 38. The Democratic Peace: Monadic or Dyadic?, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, 1993. Mousseau Curriculum Vitae - page 15 of 14