Bear F. Braumoeller

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1998
Assistant Professor of Government
Faculty Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Contact Information
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
1033 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
617.495.4765
bfbraum@fas.harvard.edu
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~bfbraum/

Research Interests
Statistical methodologies; international security studies; Russian belief systems and their relation to politics, especially foreign policy.

Current Projects
Preparing book manuscript (working title: System, State, and Citizen: Nested Politics and the Origins of Great Power Rivalry) dealing with a political model which combines individuals, states and the international systemto elucidate the context in which security politics takes place.

Selected Publications
“Deadly Doves: Liberal Nationalism and the Democratic Peace in the Soviet Successor States” International Studies Quarterly 41, no. 3 (September 1997): 375-402

“The Methodology of Necessary Conditions” (with Gary Goertz), American Journal of Political Science 44, no. 4 (October 2000): 844-58

“Actions Do Speak Louder Than Words: Deterring Plagiarism with the Use of Plagiarism-Detection Software” (with Brian Gaines), PS: Political Science and Politics, December 2001