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Faculty
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Professor Stam's research focuses on the dynamics of armed conflict between and within states. His current projects include developing a GIS model of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, investigating political leaders' family structure and social development and their concomitant effects on leaders' willingness to take risks once in office, and modeling the limits of casualty sensitivity in democratic states. During the 2007/8 year he will be a fellow at the CASBS at Stanford University. His previous work on war outcomes, war durations, mediation, and alliance politics appears in numerous political science journals including the American Political Science Review, International Security, and the British Journal of Political Science. He has received several grants supporting his work, including three from the National Science Foundation. His books include Win Lose or Draw (University of Michigan Press, 1996) and Democracies at War (Princeton University Press, 2002), The Behavioral Origins of War (University of Michigan Press, 2004). He received his Ph.D. from Michigan in 1993 and was the 2004 recipient of the ISA's Karl Deutsch award. Before completing his undergraduate degree at Cornell University he served as a communication specialist in the U.S. Army Special Forces. Selected Publications
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