Department of Political Science University of California, Davis Davis, California 95616 (530) 752-2262 E-mail: mnincic@ucdavis.edu Present Position Brief Biographical Sketch Miroslav Nincic Professor of Political Science, University of California, Davis. Previous Positions 1983-1989 Associate Professor; Department of Politics, New York University. 1979-1983 Assistant Professor; Department of Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 1977-1979 Lecturer; Department of Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Other Positions 2010- Member, External review Committee, School of Social Science, UC Irvine. 2010- Member, Program Committee, American Political Science Association. 2010- Member, Steering Committee, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. 2008-2010 Member, Graduate Council, University of California, Davi.s 2007-2009 Member, Advisory Board, The Roosevelt Institution, UC Davis. 2006-2008 Member, Chair s Advisory Committee, Department of Political Science, UC Davis. 2006-2008 Member, Educational Policy Committee, UC Davis Academic Senate. 2004-2007 Member, Advisory Committee, UC Davis Washington Center. 1997-2000 Chair, Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis. 1994-2002 Member, Steering Committee, International Relations Program, UC Davis. 1994-1995 Visiting Fellow, University of California Washington Center. 1989-1991 Member, Social Sciences Planning Council, University of California, Davis. 1989-1994 Director, the International Relations Program; University of California, Davis. 1987-1989 Director of Graduate Studies; Department of Politics, New York University. 1982-1985 Consultant; Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. 1981-1983 Founding Co-Director (with Professor Harold Jacobson); Office of International Peace and Security Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 1980-1983 Assistant Research Scientist. Institute of Public Policy Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Education PhD in Political Science, Yale University MA in International Relations, Yale University Licence in Sciences Politiques et Diplomatiques, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Areas of Specialization International Security US Foreign Policy Research Methods Recent Teaching Awards: Distinguished UC Educator, 2004 Outstanding Educator, Division of Social Sciences, 2006 Publications- Books The Logic of Positive Engagement (Cornell University Press, forthcoming summer 2011). Renegade Regimes: Confronting Deviant Behavior in World Politics (Columbia University Press, 2005). Beyond the Ivory Tower: Scholarship and Statesmanship In International Relations, with Joseph Lepgold (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001). Being Useful: The Policy Relevance of International Relations Theory, co-edited with Joseph Lepgold (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000). Democracy and Foreign Policy: The Fallacy of Political Realism, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992). Anatomy of Hostility: The US-Soviet Rivalry in Perspective, (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989). United States Foreign Policy: Choices and Tradeoffs, (Washington DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1988).
How War Might Spread to Europe, (London: Taylor and Hudson, 1985). Dilemmas of Economic Coercion, co-edited with Peter Wallensteen, (New York: Praeger, 1984). The Arms Race: The Political Economy of Military Growth, (New York: Praeger, 1982). Articles and Book Chapters Torture in the Public Mind, (co-authored with Jennifer Ramos). Forthcoming, International Studies Perspectives. 2011. Getting What You Want: Positive Inducements in International Relations. International Security, Vol. 35. No. 1 (Summer) 2010). Ideological Structures and Foreign Policy Attitudes, Journal of Political Ideologies, Vol.15 No. 2, 2010. Of Paradise, Power, and Pachyderms, (with Monti Datta). Political Science Quarterly, Spring, 2007. External Affairs and the Electoral Connection, James McCormick and Eugene Wittkopf, The Domestic Sources of US Foreign Policy, Rowman and Littlefield, 2007. Fifth edition. The Logic of Positive Engagement: Dealing With Renegade Regimes, International Studies Perspectives, Volume 7, November 2006 Divided We Stand: Political Partisanship and Military Force, Harvey Starr, ed. Crossing Boundaries: Approaches, Levels, and Methods of Analysis in International Politics: Crossing Boundaries (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Humanitarian Intervention and Moral Authority, (with Donna Nincic) International Journal of Human Rights, 2004 (Volume 8, No. 1) Information Warfare and the Democratic Imperative, Contemporary Security Policy, 2003 (Volume 24, No. 1). Electoral Politics and Foreign Policy, in Eugene Wittkopf and James McCormick eds., Domestic Sources of US Foreign Policy (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). Race, Gender, and War, with Donna J. Nincic. Journal of Peace Research (September, 2002). Staying In and Getting Out: the Politics of Military Perseverance and Extrication, (Security Studies, 2001. The Context of Useful Knowledge, In Nincic and Lepgold eds. Being Useful
Political Relevance and Theoretical Growth: The Terms of the Tradeoff, in Nincic and Lepgold eds. Being Useful. The National Interest and Its Interpretation, Review of Politics Vol. 61, NO. 1, Winter 1999. Domestic Costs, the US Public, and the Isolationist Calculus, International Studies Quarterly, December, 1997. The Social Foundations of Strategic Adjustment, with Roger Rose and Gerry Gorski, in Peter Tubowitz and Edward Rhodes eds, Strategic Adjustment in Historical Perspective (Columbia University Press, 1998). Loss Aversion and the Domestic Context of Military Intervention, Political Research Quarterly, March 1997. Collective Security, The Encyclopedia of US Foreign Relations, Council on Foreign Relations, Oxford University Press, 1997. National Security and National Defense, The Encyclopedia of US Foreign Relations, Council on Foreign Relations, Oxford University Press, 1997. The Democratic Government as Economic Investor, with Donna Nincic, Journal of Peace Research, December 1995. A Sensible Public: New Perspectives on Popular Opinion and Foreign Policy, Journal of Conflict Resolution, December 1992. America s Soviet Policy: Patterns of Incentives, in William Zimmerman, ed., Beyond the Soviet Threat: Rethinking American Security Policy in a New Era, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992). Foreign Policy and the Evaluation of Presidential Candidates, with Barbara Hinckley, Journal of Conflict Resolution, June 1991. US Soviet Policy: The Electoral Connection, World Politics, April 1990. The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Politics of Opposites, World Politics, July 1988. Can the US Trust the USSR? Scientific American, April 1986. The American Public and the Soviet Union: The Domestic Context of Discontent, Journal of Peace Research, 4 1985. Strategic Arms Control Through Test Restraints, with Martin Einhorn and Gordon Kane, International Security, Winter 1983-84. Fluctuations in Soviet Defense Spending: A Research Note, Journal of Conflict Resolution, December
1983. Economic Coercion and Foreign Policy, with Peter Wallensteen, in Nincic and Wallensteen, eds., Dilemmas of Economic Coercion. Flight Test Limitations and Strategic Arms Control, Bulletin of Peace Proposals, (13) 1982. Understanding International Conflict: Some Theoretical Gaps, Journal of Peace Research, 16) 1979. Capital, Labor, and the Spoils of War, Journal of Peace Research, (17) 1980. The Political Economy of US Military Spending, with Thomas Cusack, Journal of Peace Research, 2 1979. The Effect of Similarity and Interest on Attitudes Toward Foreign Countries, with Bruce Russett, Public Opinion Quarterly, 3 1979. American Opinion on the Use of Military Force Abroad, with Bruce Russett, Political Science Quarterly, Fall 1976. Determinants of Third World Hostility Toward the United States: An Exploratory Analysis, Journal of Conflict Resolution, December 1975. Submited for Publication: With Jennifer Ramos: The Dynamics of Patriotism: Survey and Experimental Evidence, Submitted to Political Science Quarterly. References Bruce M. Russett, Dean Acheson Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Yale University. bruce.russett@yale.edu. Arthur Stein, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles. Stein@polisci.ucla.edu. Etel Solingen, Chancellor s Professor Political Science, University of California, Irvine. Etel.Solingen@uci.edu. Larry Berman, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Davis. lsberman@ucdavis.edu.