Professor
Department Chair

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

C.V.

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Education:

Ph.D. Columbia University, 2006
B.A. University of Michigan, 1999

Research Interests:
US Foreign Policy
Military Intervention
War Duration
Historical International Relations

Courses:

Undergraduate:
POLSC 274: American Foreign Policy
POLSC 283: Terrorism
POLSC 375: International Law
POLSC 382: Causes of War
POLSC 384: Comparative Foreign Policy
POLSC 493: Conducting and Presenting Political Science Research

Graduate:
PSC 76000: Basic Concepts and Theories of International Relations
PSC 86207: Causes of War

Selected Publications:

A full list of publications, data, and media appearances can be found here.

Some of the following works are available, open access, in the CUNY Academic Works repository and on ResearchGate.

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, and 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.
• "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.

Recent Media:

• "American Dove: A Conversation with Gideon Rose,"--Roosevelt House, 19 November 2020.
  
• "American Dove:  A Discussion with Stuart Gottlieb and Peter Liberman,”—CUNY Graduate Center, 18 February 2021.
• "6+1 Questions on American Dove," Duck of Minerva: 22 July 2021.