Associate Professor
polhfc@langate.gsu.edu
404-413-6178
GCB 1012

Fall 2008 Office Hours:

Monday and Wednesday 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Education: Ph.D. Columbia Univ. 1997

Research Interests: International Criminal Justice and Human Rights, Comparative Legal Development, Empirical Democratic Theory, Elections and Democratization

Recent Publications:

• The Consequences of Torture and Cruelty for Local and Geopolitics: France, Argentina, Israel and the US in Comparative Perspective (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2009).
• Co-Editor with Robert J. Beck, ISA Compendium of International Law (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), forthcoming. Contributions on all the main issues, including Sources, Customary International Law, Use of Force, UN Law, Intellectual Property, Environmental Law, et al. (Contributors include George Andreopoulos, Robert Beck, Henry Carey, Bruce Cronin, Dana Zartmer Falstrom, Aaron Fichtelberg, Philip Karber, Chenaz Seelarbokus, Srinivasan Sitaraman, Lawrence LeBlanc, Leo Lovelace, Carmela Lutmar, Shirley Scott, Jana von Stein , Robert Weiner, and Marlaine White forthcoming.
•  Dilemmas of NGO Peacebuilding Among Former Enemies (London: Palgrave, 2009).
•  “The Third US Intervention, Political Dissensus, and Haiti’s Paramilitary Predicament,” Journal of Haitian Studies, Vol.11, no.1 (Spring 2005).
• “Civil War, Regime Change and Peacebuilding in Haiti, Civil Wars (Fall 2004).