Security is not just another word for “war.” GPS professors recognize that security has many more dimensions to it, which includes taking into consideration the increased role that technology and the internet play. Additionally, security is as much an issue of what happens inside a country as it is about relationships between countries.
Professor, UC San Diego Department of Economics
Research Fields: environmental and resource economics, labor economics, religion, Middle East, terrorism and insurgency, fertility, immigration, language
Professor; Director, UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
Research Fields: China, Chinese and East Asian defense and national security affairs, especially related to economic, industrial, technology and innovation issues
Professor; Chair, Global Leadership Institute
Research Fields: comparative politics, international relations, civil war, voting, Central Asia
Assistant Teaching Professor; Director, International Studies Program
Research Fields: international security, insurgency and counterinsurgency, defense technology, war and the environment, military ethics
Professor; Research Director, Future of Democracy (IGCC); Peter Cowhey Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Global Policy; Director, Laboratory on International Law and Regulation
Research Fields: international law and regulation, human rights, election violence, trade and investment, behavioral economics, political psychology, and social networks
Research Professor; Lawrence and Sallye Krause Distinguished Professor Emeritus; Director Emeritus, Korea-Pacific Program; Research Director, Global Governance (IGCC)
Research Fields: international relations, political economy, globalization, East Asia, North and South Korea
Associate Professor
Research Fields: political violence, conflict, women’s participation in rebel and terrorist organizations
Assistant Professor
Research Fields: applied political economy; conflict processes, identity, and migration in the context of Latin America
Professor; Rohr Chair in Pacific International Relations
Research Fields: international security, civil wars, terrorism/counter-terrorism
