Professor
Department Chair

Office: 1724A HW
Phone: 212-772-5503
Email: zshirkey@hunter.cuny.edu

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Complete List of Publications

Open access versions of some of the following works can be found on ResearchGate and in the CUNY Academic Works repository.

Books:

• American Dove: US Foreign Policy and the Failure of Force. 2020. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press).
  - Reviewed in Perspectives on Politics 19(4).
• Savic, Ivan and Zachary C. Shirkey. 2017. Uncertainty, Threat, & International Security: Implications for Southeast Asia. (London: Routledge). (available open access)
• Joining the Fray: Military Intervention in Civil Wars. 2012. (Aldershot: Ashgate).
  - Reviewed in Journal of Peace Research 50(6).
• Is This a Private Fight or Can Anybody Join? The Spread of Interstate War. 2009. (Aldershot:  Ashgate).
  - Reviewed in Études Internationales 42(2).

Articles:

• “State-Formation, Warfare, and the Bronze Age State System,” Forthcoming. Security Studies.
• "Courts and State-Building: The Welsh Marcher Lordships and the Somali Union of Islamic Courts," 2022. Polity 54(2): 197-224.
• "Which Wars Spread? Commitment Problems and Military Intervention," 2020. Conflict Management and Peace Science 37(2): 133–51.
• "The Puzzle of War Duration," 2018. Polity. 50(2): 162–7.
• "Challenges to the Study of Long Wars," 2018. Polity. 50(2): 225–37.
• Lee, Michael and Zachary C. Shirkey. 2017. “Going Beyond the Existing Consensus: The Use of Games in International Relations Education,” PS: Political Science and Politics 50(2): 571–5.
• "Joining by Number: Military Intervention in Civil Wars," 2016. Civil Wars 18(4): 417–38.
• "Uncertainty and War Duration,” 2016. International Studies Review 18(2): 244–67.
• "When and How Many: The Effects of Third Party Joining on Casualties and Duration in Interstate Wars,” 2012. Journal of Peace Research 49(2): 321–34.
• Savic, Ivan and Zachary C. Shirkey. 2009. “Trust in the Balance: The Role of Commitment Problems in Shaping External Balancing Behavior,” Journal of Theoretical Politics 21(4): 483–507.

Book Chapters:

•  “No: International Organizations are Limited in their Ability to Combat Terrorism,” Forthcoming. In Debating Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism, Stuart Gottlieb (ed.), 3^rd ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
• "Military Intervention in Interstate and Civil Wars: A Unified Interpretation,” 2018. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations Theory, William R. Thompson (ed.)., v. 2, Oxford: Oxford University Press: 534–49.
• "No: International Organizations are Limited in their Ability to Combat Terrorism,” 2013. In Debating Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism, Stuart Gottlieb, (ed.). 2^nd ed. Washington: CQ Press, 279–91.
• "No: The UN is limited in its ability to play a role,” 2009. In Debating Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism, Stuart Gottlieb, (ed.). 1^st ed. Washington: CQ Press, 275–87.

Reviews:

• “Review of John Mueller The Stupidity of War: American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency,” 2021. Perspectives on Politics 19(4): 1285-86.
• “Response to John Mueller’s Review of American Dove: US Foreign Policy and the Failure of Force,” 2021. Perspectives on Politics 19(4): 1289.
• "Review of Stephen Huggins America's Use of Terror: From Colonial Times to the A-Bomb," 2020. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 51(2): 328–9.
• "Review of Amitav Acharya Constructing Global Order: Agency and Change in World Politics," 2019. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 49(4): 653–4.
• "Review of Marc Sageman Turning to Political Violence: The Emergence of Terrorism," 2018. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 48(4): 546–7.
• "Review of David Armitage Civil Wars: A History in Ideas," 2018. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 48(3): 394–5.
• "Review of William J. Brenner Confounding Powers: Anarchy and International Society from the Assassins to Al Qaeda,” 2017. Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 47(3): 399–400.
• "Review of Alexander Lanoszka and Michael Hunzeker's ‘Rage of Honor: Entente Indignation and the Lost Chance for Peace in the First World War’ in Security Studies 24(4): Oct–Dec,’” 2016. H-Diplo/ISSF Article Review 60: 1–4.
• "Commitment Problems as a Cause of War Severity,” 2014. International Studies Review 16(1): 136–8.
• "Review of Dan Reiter’s How Wars End,” 2012. H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Reviews 3(19): 15–19.

Annotated Bibliography:

• Shirkey, Zachary C. and Alex Weisiger. 2007. “An Annotated Bibliography for the Correlates of War Interstate Wars,” Correlates of War Project.

Policy Pieces:

• "Trump's Randian Foreign Policy,” 2017. Duck of Minerva, 15 February.
• "A Better Way to Combat Terrorism,” 2014. National Interest, 21 August.
  -   Reprinted by Murr Television (Lebanon).
• "America Can’t Escape the Middle East,” 2013. National Interest, 29 July.
  -   Reprinted by al Jarida (Kuwait).

Data:

• Unexpected Events in Interstate Wars Dataset:
  COW Interstate Wars Dataset
  Coding Appendix
  Citation: Shirkey, Zachary C. 2009. Is This a Private Fight or Can Anybody Join? The Spread of Interstate War (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate).
• Unexpected Events in Civil Wars Dataset:
  COW Civil Wars Dataset
  PRIO Civil Wars Dataset
  Coding Appendix
  Citation: Shirkey, Zachary C. 2016. "Joining By Number: Military Intervention in Civil Wars," Civil Wars 18(4): 417-438.

Media:

•  "6+1 Questions on American Dove Duck of Minerva, (22 July 2021)
• “American Dove:  A Discussion with Stuart Gottlieb and Peter Liberman,”—CUNY Graduate Center, 18 February 2021. 
• American Dove  Book Talk with Gideon Rose at Roosevelt House (19 November 2020)
• Syrian Civil War Panel at Baruch College, CUNY (15 February 2017)
• Richard French Live Interview on Boston Marathon Bombing (19 April 2013)

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