Patricia Sullivan is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia. She received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Davis in 2004. Her research explores the utility of military force as a policy instrument, the determinants of war outcomes, and the factors that affect leaders’ decisions to initiate, escalate, or terminate foreign military operations. She has published articles on the determinants of conflict outcomes in the Journal of Conflict Resolution and International Interactions. An article on the duration of major power military interventions is forthcoming in Conflict Management and Peace Science. Her research, which combines rigorous quantitative and qualitative research methodology, has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, the University of Georgia Research Foundation, and the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities at the University of Georgia. Her dissertation, which explores why militarily strong states frequently fail to achieve their political objectives when they use military force against weak states and non-state actors, received both the 2004-2006 Walter Isard Dissertation Award, awarded every two years by the Peace Science Society International, and the 2005 Dissertation Award awarded by the Committee on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (CAMOS), a group affiliated with the American Political Science Association. Sullivan has received additional training from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research at the University of Michigan, Columbia University’s Summer Workshop on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS), and the annual strategic studies teacher’s workshop offered by the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at John Hopkins University. 

international relations, international conflict, security studies, peace studies, global issues

international conflict, use of military force, war outcomes, public opinion, arms trade