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.
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Max Abrahms
Associate Professor of Political Science
Max Abrahms is a tenured professor of political science and public policy at Northeastern University; an affiliated faculty member in the Center for Emerging Markets at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Security and Resilience Studies, Inte…
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Mai’a Cross
Edward W. Brooke Professor of Political Science & International Affairs
Mai’a K. Davis Cross is the Edward W. Brooke Professor of Political Science International Affairs. Professor Cross researches international cooperation, especially in the areas of European foreign and security policy, epistemic communities, crises, d…
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T. Anthony Jones
Associate Professor 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…
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Gretchen Heefner
Associate Professor of History
Gretchen Heefner is associate professor of history. She teaches and researches the history of the U.S. in the world, with a focus on the Cold War, militarization and the surprisingly intimate relations between national security regimes and the everyd…
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William F.S. Miles
Professor of Political Science
William Miles is a full Professor of Political Science within the College of Social Sciences and Humanities. A five-time Fulbright award recipient and author of a dozen solely authored books, Prof. Miles teaches the undergraduate courses Comparative…
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Kirsten Rodine-Hardy
Associate Professor of Political Science
Kirsten Rodine-Hardy is associate professor of political science at Northeastern University, where she teaches international political economy, comparative politics, and international relations for undergraduates and graduates. She studied at UC Berk…
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Gordana Rabrenovic
Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict
Gordana Rabrenovic is an associate professor of sociology and the director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University. Her research and publications are in the area of community studies and intergroup conflict and viol…
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Nikos Passas
Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Nikos Passas is professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University, and co-director of the Institute for Security and Public Policy. He is also visiting professor at the Basel Institute on Governance; visiting professor at Vienn…