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Steven James ChildsLecturerContact Information E-mail: schilds@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-2136 Office: VKC 330 LINKS Curriculum Vitae Claremont LION Initiative Academia.edu Profile |
Biographical Sketch |
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Steven Childs holds a Ph.D. in political science from the School of Politics & Economics at Claremont Graduate University, with emphases in world and comparative politics. His research areas include international security, U.S. Defense and Foreign Policy, and the politics of the Middle East. His dissertation synthesized insights from the conventional arms trade literature, Power Transition Theory, and network analysis to map and measure the global security architecture. In 2008, he interned with the Security Assistance Team in the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. |
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 Ph.D. Political Science, Claremont Graduate University, 2011
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M.A. International Studies, Claremont Graduate University, 2009
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B.A. International Relations, University of Southern California, 2005
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Conferences and Other Presentations |
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Conference Presentations |
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"A Formal Assessment of the Deterrence Process (with Jacek Kugler and Kyungkook Kang)", Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, San Francisco, CA, 04/04/2013
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"Security amid Austerity: U.S. Foreign Military Assistance and International Security", Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, San Francisco, CA, 04/03/2013
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"The American Identity Voter: An Agent-Based Approach to U.S. Elections (with Benjamin Acosta)", Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Hollywood, CA, 03/29/2013
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"Civil War and Rain: A Wash? (with Piotr Zagorowski)", Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association-West, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Pasadena, CA, 10/20/2012
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"A Survival Analysis of Contemporary Suicide Attacks (with Benjamin Acostsa)", Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, San Diego, CA, 04/06/2012
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"Security as Satisfaction?: Conventional Arms Transfers and the International Order", Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, San Diego, CA, 04/03/2012
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"Diversification and Demand: Interstate Security Linkage and Conventional Arms Procurement", ISSS/ISAC Annual Security Conference, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Irvine, CA, 10/14/2011
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Other Presentations |
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"U.S.-Iran Foreign Policy", Invited Lecture, National Security Studies Program, California State University, San Bernardino, 11/08/2012
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"Viewing and Discussion", Presidential Debate on Foreign Policy, Department of History & Political Science, Azusa Pacific University, 10/22/2012
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"The Claremont Difference: Experiences from Wikistrat's International Grand Strategy Competition (with Benjamin Acosta, Piotr Zagorowski, Byron Ramirez, and Sean Gera)", Invited Lecture, School of Politics & Economics, Claremont Graduate University, 09/06/2011
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Publications |
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Acosta, B., Childs, S. J.
(2013).
Suicide Attacks and the Network of Militant Organizations. Extremis Project. Article Access
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Journal Article |
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Acosta, B., Childs, S. J.
(2013).
Illuminating the Global Suicide-Attack Network. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism.
Vol. 36 (1), pp. 49-76. Article Access
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Childs, S. J.
(2012).
Small World, Big Guns: Globalization, Interstate Security Networks and Conventional Weapons Imports. Defense and Security Analysis.
Vol. 28 (4), pp. 343-359. Article Access
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Childs, S. J.
(2012).
Points of the Star, Branches of the Cedar: Israeli and Lebanese Military Integration Policies. Democracy and Security.
Vol. 8 (3), pp. 247-265. Article Access
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Childs, S. J.
(2011).
From Identity to Militancy: The Shi'a of Hezbollah. Comparative Strategy.
Vol. 30 (4), pp. 363-72. Article Access
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Honors and Awards |
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Wikistrat International Grand Strategy Competition - Grand Champion Team, 6/1/2011-7/3/2011
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