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For questions or comments about this project, please contact Amy Oakes or Dennis Smith.

Dennis Smith
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Dennis Smith received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Missouri-Columbia 1995 and his Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs from The University of Virginia in 2007. His research interests in the area of international security include: coercion, economic sanctions, regime change, and strategic studies. He is currently working on book manuscript that examines the effect of regime structure on a government's vulnerability to international overthrow attempts, entitled Overthrow: Domestic Structure and Vulnerability.

Amy Oakes
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Professor Amy Oakes received her B.A. in Political Science from Davidson College and her Ph.D. in Political Science from The Ohio State University. Her research interests include the domestic causes of war and nuclear nonproliferation. Her work has appeared in Security Studies, Politics & Gender, International Journal, International Studies Quarterly, Foreign Policy, and edited volumes. She is currently working on a book manuscript that examines whether governments provoke international crises in response to domestic unrest, entitled Diversionary War. In 2009-2010, she was a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.