JOSHUA R. SHIFRINSON
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My research focuses on broad issues of international security, international relations (IR) theory, and U.S. foreign policy.  Details on specific research themes and projects - as well as copies of publications - can be found with the drop-down menu at top.  Overall, though, my work is informed by three overarching questions: 

  • First, when and why do great powers compete or cooperate in security affairs, and what consequences - for themselves, for other actors, and for international stability - follow? 

  • Second, what explains the foreign policy and strategic choices of the United States since the Second World War, and what can U.S policy tell scholars about IR theory?
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  • Finally, what insights do theory and diplomatic history offer for contemporary policy discussions on core matters of war, peace, and the search for security? 

Along the way, I look to craft and evaluate theory using qualitative (especially archival) research; to rigorously engage policy debates by leveraging  theory and history; and, although not a historian, to connect IR theory with historiography.


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  • Home
  • Research
    • Great Power Rise & Decline
    • US Foreign Policy
    • Suppression Strategies
    • Grand Strategy & Competition
    • Working Papers
  • Teaching
  • CV & Publications
  • Grants and Awards
  • Dog