Mailing Address: 5828 S. University Ave. 301 Pick Hall Chicago, IL 60637
Office: 514 Foster Hall
Phone: (773) 702-3268
Fax: (773) 702-5140
Email: mjreese@uchicago.edu
Hello, my name is Michael Joseph Reese and I study international politics. I am currently an Instructor and Postdoctoral Fellow with the Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago. My primary academic interests in the field revolve around the subjects of International Security, Comparative Politics, and Foreign Policy.
A native of Wisconsin, I received my B.A. in Government and History from Lawrence University. During my time at Lawrence, I participated in American University's Washington Semester Program and interned with the Center for Security Policy. After graduation, I worked at the Idaho National Laboratory's (INL) Washington DC offices. I then returned to school to receive my M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from The Ohio State University. While a student at Ohio State, I served as a Research Assistant at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies and participated in the Summer Institute in Political Psychology (SIPP). As I completed my dissertation, I taught courses independently as an instructor in both Ohio State's Political Science Department and International Studies Program.
I am specifically interested in international theory, asymmetric conflict, terrorism, foreign policy studies, American foreign policy, theories of international security, international crises, comparative politics, developing world issues, intersections between domestic and international politics, the politics of authoritarian regimes, theories of empire, security communities, and identity theory.
Over the past five years, I have written on the ideology of hegemonic powers, the stability of security communities, American foreign policy, and the attributes of authoritarian political systems. My work on George W. Bush’s foreign policy, in collaboration with Richard K. Herrmann, was published by CQ Press in 2004. My dissertation project, which I am currently re-working into a book manuscript, explores a relatively overlooked phenomenon: the asymmetric international crisis.
All of these very diverse endeavors are related to a core intellectual agenda: a desire to understand how the “South,” or developing world, can achieve security in a world dominated by the much richer and more powerful “North.”
