Jennifer Taw, Ph.D.
Department
Areas of Expertise
Biography
I maintain a CMC IR/Gov LinkedIn page and post jobs and internships as they pop up. I post about the books I read on Goodreads (some are for work, most are sci-fi or other fiction). I host a Slack page to share and discuss current events (What's Happening in the World): https://join.slack.com/t/tawheadquarters/shared_invite/zt-1wjhbuoj8-XgcZkrcb7LI5IrY9wgVf9A
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Teaching Interests
International Relations, U.S. Foreign Policy, Security Studies, War, Identity and IR
Research Interests
U.S. foreign policy as related to both military action and anticipated outcomes, balancing behaviors internationally, stability operations, identity and international relations
Education
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Research and Publications
Mission Revolution: The U.S. Military and Stability Operations (NY: Columbia University Press, 2012).
"Conventional Retaliation and Cyber Attacks", Sarah Chen and Jennifer Taw, The Cyber Defense Review, 2022, https://cyberdefensereview.army.mil/Portals/6/Documents/2023_Spring/Chen_Taw_CDRV8N1-Spring-2023.pdf.
“Has Russia’s Anti-NATO Agenda Succeeded?” Hilary Appel and Jennifer Taw, Problems of Post-Communism, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2020.1844024.
"Preventive Force: The Logic of Costs and Benefits," chapter 2 in Kerstin Fisk and Jennifer M. Ramos, eds., Preventive Force: Drones, Targeted Killing, and the Tranformation of Contemporary Warfare (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2016).
“Colombia: A Case Study,” chapter in C. Christine Fair and Sumit Ganguly, eds. Policing Insurgencies: Cops as Counterinsurgents (NY and New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014).
“Distributive Domestic Response: How Local Politics Transform External Powers Foreign Policy Outcomes,” Review of International Studies, 2010, https://www.jstor.org/stable/23025424
“Stability and Support Operations: History and Debates,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol. 33, No. 5, May 2010, pp. 387-407, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10576101003691499
World Politics in a New Era, 6th edition, with Steven L. Spiegel, Kristen P. Williams, and Elizabeth Matthews, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).