International Security and Resilience

As U.S. and Western dominance continues to fade, international security meets new challenges of accommodating rising powers and resolving disputes in a number of areas. This area studies new conflicts and modes of warfare and new techniques of security – such as building civil and societal resilience.

Affiliated Faculty

Max Abrahms

Associate Professor of Political Science

Max Abrahms is an expert in international security, especially in the areas of terrorism, counterterrorism, and U.S. foreign policy. He has held fellowships and other research positions with the Center for International Security and Cooperation at St…
Mai’a Cross

Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, Diversity and Inclusion; Director of the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures; Dean’s Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Diplomacy

Mai’a K. Davis Cross is the Dean’s Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Diplomacy in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University. She researches international cooperation, especially in the areas of …
T. Anthony Jones

Associate Professor Emeritus of Sociology and International Affairs

Anthony Jones received his undergraduate education in England before coming to the USA to do an MA at Brown and a PhD at Princeton. He has spent most of his professional life doing research on the Soviet Union and Russia, but in recent years has exte…
Gretchen Heefner

Associate Professor of History

Gretchen Heefner teaches and researches the history of the U.S. in the world, with a focus on militarization, the environment, and the surprisingly intimate relations between national security regimes and the everyday. Her current research, “From …
William F.S. Miles

Professor of Political Science

A five-time Fulbright award recipient and author of a dozen solely authored books, Professor Miles teaches the undergraduate courses Comparative Politics, Religion and Politics, Music and Politics, and the Politics of Developing Nations; on the gradu…
Kirsten Rodine-Hardy

Associate Professor of Political Science

Kirsten Rodine-Hardy teaches international political economy, comparative politics, and international relations for undergraduates and graduates. She has lived and worked in France, the Czech Republic (1990-1994), Washington, D.C., Berkeley, CA, and …
Gordana Rabrenovic

Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict

Gordana Rabrenovic’s research and publications are in the area of community studies and intergroup conflict and violence. Her current work focuses on the initiation, escalation, and persistence/de-sistance of conflict and violence in three conf…
Nikos Passas

Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director, Institute for Security and Public Policy

Professor Nikos Passas specializes in the study of corruption, illicit financial/trade flows, sanctions, informal fund transfers, remittances, terrorism, white-collar crime, financial regulation, organized crime and international crimes. He has publi…

International Security and Resilience

Affiliated Faculty

Max Abrahms

Associate Professor of Political Science

Mai’a Cross

Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, Diversity and Inclusion; Director of the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures; Dean’s Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Diplomacy

T. Anthony Jones

Associate Professor Emeritus of Sociology and International Affairs

Gretchen Heefner

Associate Professor of History

William F.S. Miles

Professor of Political Science

Kirsten Rodine-Hardy

Associate Professor of Political Science

Gordana Rabrenovic

Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict

Nikos Passas

Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director, Institute for Security and Public Policy