Faculty
Philip Arena
Assistant Professor. International Politics
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Email: parena@buffalo.edu
Phone: 716-645-8444
Office: 507 Park Hall
Current CV in PDF format: Philip Arena's 2009 CV
Philip Arena's Personal Website
Areas of Teaching and Research Interest:
Domestic Forces in International Relations, American Foreign Policy, Conflict Processes, IR Theory, Bargaining Theory, Formal Theory, Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models.
Courses Taught:
PSC 326 - War and International Security
PSC 335 - American Foreign Policy
PSC 643 - International Security
Current Research:
Party competition and international conflict, diversionary conflict.
Brief Bio:
Philip Arena is an Assistant Professor in International Politics who joined the department in the fall of 2008. Professor Arena studies the links between domestic politics and international relations, focusing particularly on the effects of party competition on international conflict and vice versa. His work has been published in Conflict Management and Peace Science, and International Studies Quarterly and has been funded by the National Science Foundation.
Selected Recent Research:
"Success Breeds Success?: War Outcomes, Domestic Opposition, and Elections." 2008. Conflict Management and Peace Science, Vol. 25 (2).
"Is it Politics or the Economy? Domestic Correlates of Dispute Involvement in Parliamentary Systems." (With Glenn Palmer). Forthcoming. International Studies Quarterly.