Brian Lai
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Office:
319 SH
Office hours:
M: 1:30–2:20pm, W: 1:30–3:30pm and by appointment
and by appointment
Phone number:
(319) 335-2353
Email:
Website:
Research Area
International Relations
Political Methodology
Additional Research Areas
American Foreign Policy
Terrorism
Domestic Politics and International Relations
Conflict Processes
Education
PhD Emory University, 2001
Publications
- “’Draining the Swamp’: Empirical Examination of Factors that lead to the Production of International Terrorism, 1967-1997,” Conflict Management and Peace Science (2007).
- “Institutions of the Offensive: Domestic Sources of Dispute Initiation in Authoritarian Regimes, 1950-1992,” American Journal of Political Science (with Dan Slater, 2006).
- “Democracy, Political Similarity, and International Alliances, 1816-1992,” Journal of Conflict Resolution (with Dan Reiter, 2000).