CCAPS Team
Joshua Busby is an Assistant Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Crook Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin. His book, Moral Movements and Foreign Policy, is forthcoming at Cambridge University Press in 2010. Dr. Busby has published widely on climate change and national security, transnational advocacy movements, and U.S. foreign policy for journals such as International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies and Perspectives on Politics. He also served as an outside reviewer of the National Intelligence Council’s assessment of climate change and security, and has written reports on climate change and national security for the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institution, the Center for a New American Security, the Woodrow Wilson International Center, and the UN’s High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change. Prior to coming to UT, Dr. Busby was a research fellow at the Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School (2005-2006), the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s JFK School (2004-2005, and the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution (2003-2004). He received his PhD in Political Science in 2004 from Georgetown University.
Gregory W. Engle is the Associate Director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, former U.S. Department of State Diplomat-in-Residence, and a faculty member at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He previously served for more than 26 years in the U.S. Foreign Service, including as Consul General in Johannesburg, South Africa, Management Counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, and U.S. Ambassador to the Togolese Republic. Ambassador Engle also served as the Director of Regional and Security Affairs in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs and as Special Coordinator of the African Crisis Response Initiative. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, he was a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural South Korea. He holds a BA and an MPA from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
Dara Y. Francis is program manager for the Climate Change and African Political Stability program at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. Previously, she was a Program Officer at the International Republican Institute in Washington, DC, where she designed and managed programs on local governance, election preparations, civic participation and conflict mitigation in sub-Saharan Africa. Ms. Francis has worked in nearly a dozen countries in Africa, and has trained civil society organizations, youth leaders and women’s groups on advocacy, communications and conflict resolution. She was also a Research Associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center, where she focused on peacekeeping reform, civilian policing and US security assistance to Africa. She has worked with the Africa Division of the International Crisis Group and the African Security Analysis Program at the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, South Africa. She holds an M.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.A. from the University of Michigan.
Francis J. Gavin is the Director of the Robert S. Strauss Center and the first Tom Slick Professor of International Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also the director of “The Next Generation Project—U.S. Global Policy and the Future of International Institutions,” a multi-year national initiative sponsored by The American Assembly at Columbia University. He previously was an Olin National Security Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs and an International Security Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He was also a Research Fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, where he worked on the Presidential Recordings Project and directed the Presidency and Economic Policy Project. A historian by training, his teaching and research interests focus on U.S. foreign policy, national security affairs, nuclear strategy and arms control, presidential policymaking, and the history of international monetary relations. Dr. Gavin received a Ph.D. and M.A. in Diplomatic History from the University of Pennsylvania, a MSt. in Modern European History from Oxford, and a B.A. in Political Science (with honors) from the University of Chicago.
Cullen Hendrix is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas and a research associate at the Centre for the Study of Civil War, Peace Research Institute, Oslo. He is also a Fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. Prior to joining the faculty at UNT, Dr. Hendrix was a research fellow at the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and the Centre for the Study of Civil War, Peace Research Institute, Oslo. Dr. Hendrix’s research interests include international security, civil conflict, the environment and development, and his work has appeared in journals such as Political Geography and Journal of Peace Research. His current work focuses on the political and economic consequences of environmental degradation and global climate change for peace, security, and stability in the developing world, with particular emphasis on Africa. Dr. Cullen received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego in 2008.
Robert Hicks is an Associate Professor of Economics and a faculty affiliate in the Environmental Science and Policy Program, The Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy, and the International Relations Program at the College of William & Mary. His current research focuses on environmental and natural resource economics, welfare Commerce, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is a co-author of the book Greening Aid? Understanding the Environmental Impact of Development Assistance and has published numerous articles in journals such as Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and Management Science. Professor Hicks received his PhD in Economics in 1997 from the University of Marlyand.
Alan J. Kuperman is an Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and Senior Fellow at the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin. He previously coordinated the international relations program at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Bologna, Italy. He is author of The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda (Brookings, 2001) and co-editor of Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion and Civil War (Routledge, 2006). His articles have appeared in journals and newspapers including Foreign Affairs, International Studies Quarterly, and The New York Times, and he has chapters in many edited volumes. Prior to his academic career, he worked as legislative director to Congressman Charles Schumer and legislative assistant to the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Thomas Foley. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002.
Michael W. Mosser is a visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX. He previously served as Associate Director of the European Union Center of Excellence and a Fellow of the Robert S. Strauss Center at the University of Texas at Austin. From 2006 to 2009 he was an assistant professor at the US Army School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he taught international relations, security studies, and comparative foreign policy of Western Europe. From 2001 to 2006, Dr. Mosser served as Assistant Dean in the Graduate School and Office of International Programs at the University of Kansas. He has published articles in the fields of military art and science and military sociology, and is presently co-authoring a textbook on international organizations. Dr. Mosser earned his PhD in political science in 2002 from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Clionadh Raleigh is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Trinity College, Dublin and an external researcher at the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway. She is a political geographer and her work is mainly focused on conflict, governance, and the social consequences of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Raleigh directs the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) Project, which tracks local conflict events over fifty states. Her present work concerns conflict patterns, government intervention, and drought patterns in the Sahel belt, and appears in journals such as Political Geography. Dr. Raleigh earned her PhD in Geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2007.
Timmons Roberts is Director of the Center for Environmental Studies and Professor of Sociology at Brown University. He is also Research Fellow at the Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations at the College of William and Mary, where he taught from 2001-2009. He has conducted research on climate change since 1992, when he was awarded National Science Foundation funding for a cross-national study of carbon emissions efficiency. Recently he has focused on foreign aid and funding for adaptation to climate change, including justice elements of raising and distributing these funds. He is co-author of five books and over fifty articles, including A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy (2007, MIT Press), and Greening Aid? Understanding the Environmental Impacts of Foreign Assistance (2008 Oxford University Press). Dr. Roberts earned his PhD in Sociology in 1992 from Johns Hopkins University.
Idean Salehyan is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas. In addition, he is an associate at the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University and at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, and a Fellow at the University of Texas Robert S Strauss Center for International Security and Law. Dr. Salehyan is the author of Rebels Without Borders: Transnational Insurgencies in World Politics (Cornell University Press, 2009). His articles appear in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, and World Politics. Dr. Salehyan has also published several articles, reports, and op-eds on the relationship between environmental degradation and armed conflict. Dr. Salehyan received his PhD in political science from the University of California, San Diego in 2006.
Michael Tierney is the Weingartner Associate Professor of Government and Director of the International Relations Programs and The Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations at the College of William & Mary. A leading scholar on international organizations and global development aid, he has published two books Greening Aid? Understanding the Environmental Impact of Development Assistance (Oxford University Press, 2008) and Delegation and Agency in International Organizations (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Dr. Tierney’s articles appear in such journals as International Organization, Review of International Political Economy, and Foreign Policy. He co-directs, with Robert Hicks and Timmons Roberts, the Project-Level Aid Database program. Professor Tierney received his PhD in Political Science in 2003 from the University of California – San Diego.
Catherine (Kate) Weaver is currently an Assistant Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and Research Coordinator and Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin. Before coming the LBJ School, Dr. Weaver was a research fellow in the Foreign Studies program at the Brookings Institution and an assistant professor of political science at the University of Kansas. Dr. Weaver’s research analyzes the organizational culture, behavior and reform of international financial and development aid organizations. Her book, Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform (Princeton University Press 2008) received both the Chadwick Alger Prize for best book on International Organizations and Multilateralism from the International Studies Association and the Harold D. Lasswell Prize from the Society of Policy Scientists. Her work also appears in journals such as Global Governance, Review of International Political Economy, and New Political Economy. Prof. Weaver is currently a co-editor at Review of International Political Economy. Prof. Weaver received her PhD in political science in 2003 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Kaiba White is a research associate for the Climate Change and African Political Stability program at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. She recently completed her M.A. in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. Her studies at Tufts focused on global climate change, renewable energy, and using geographic information systems (GIS). While at Tufts, Ms. White was a lab assistant at the Tufts GIS Lab, where she assisted lab users with GIS and produced maps for publication on a wide variety of topics and was an assistant for an introductory GIS class and a Daily Risks and Crisis Events class. Previously, Ms. White was a research associate at Public Citizen – Texas, where she did research, writing and advocacy on a variety of environmental issues, including climate change, energy efficiency, renewable energy and air pollution.