I am Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, and also teach for the International Relations Program, at The College of Wooster. I teach a range of international relations and comparative politics courses (see below) and and serve as advisor to Wooster's Model United Nations team. My scholarly interests include international relations, international organization, political leadership, transnational actors and relations, peace studies, active learning, and nationalism.
My home page is designed to provide access to the following
information:
INTERACTIVE
VITA
My curriculum vitae provides
a full description of my research and teaching interests and
experience.
It includes links to relevant organizations, programs, schools, and
abstracts. Or download a pdf version by
clicking here.
Key recent highlights include:
The IO-BIO Project with Bob Reinalda. For information, click here.
Project on UN-NATO institutional coordination with Ryan Hendrickson, with articles in Global Governance and Journal of International Organizations Studies Publication of The UN
Secretary-General and Moral Authority: Ethics and Religion in
International Leadership (Georgetown University Press, 2007) Publication of From
Manager to Visionary: The
Secretary-General of the United Nations (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2006)
* Featured on ACUNS
website
* See a review of the book at UNSG.org
Workshops on
Active Teaching and Learning in International Relations
SPRING 2012 COURSE LINKS:
Political Science 120: Introduction to International Relations
This introductory course is designed to help students gain a better
understanding of international relations by exposing them to a wide
range of factors that are shaping global events while also providing
them with concepts to make the relations between these factors more
clearly identifiable. Topics will include the following: your place in
international relations, the structure of the international system,
what interests are important to international politics and how these
interests are met, traditional and continuing concerns of international
relations (such as war, security, and economic relations) along with
other important issues now facing the global populace (such as
population, human rights and the environment) and what can be done to
cope with these problems.
Political Science 225: The United Nations System Political Science 246:
Peace Studies
This course encourages students to explore the numerous dimensions of
violence present in the world today and to devise innovative approaches
for overcoming these elements of peacelessness between and within
countries. The primary focus of the course is on exploring the
variety of “peace tools” available and evaluating the usefulness of
these tools. Thus, the first part of the course is geared toward
providing students with an understanding of both “negative” and
“positive” peace and the types of peace tools that can be employed. In
the second part of the course, students will work with one another to
research, discuss, and present the potential uses of these peace tools
in relation to a particular country.
CLASS
LINKS
These are direct links for the classes that I have taught at The College of Wooster:
Political
Science 120: Introduction to International Relations (Spring 2012)
Political
Science 222: Problems of the Global Community (last taught
Spring
2006)
Political
Science 225: The United Nations System (Spring
2012)
Political
Science 227: Theories of International Relations (last taught Fall
2001)
Political
Science 228: Nationalism and Interdependence (last taught Spring
2011)
Political
Science 246: Peace Studies (Spring 2012)
First
Year
Seminar: Who Am I, Who Are You? Who Are We, Who Are They?
(last taught Fall 2005)
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kkille@wooster.edu
Last updated: January 2012