Assistant Professor of Space and International Relations, West Space Seminar, Air War College, Air University
I am currently Assistant Professor of Space Seminar and International Security at Air University with the West Space Seminar, Air War College. Prior to my current position, I taught for many years at Kansas State University. As I have degrees in two fields: Applied Linguistics (MA) and Political Science (MA and PhD), I taught classes for two departments at K-State: the Department of Political Science and the English Language Program.
My disciplinary background is in the fields of International Relations (IR) and American Politics. In my doctoral dissertation, I examined empirically the effectiveness of sectoral foreign aid on subsiding terrorism. To uncover the conditions in which foreign aid is more likely to correspond to fewer terrorist events, I collected large-n, longitudinal, cross-national data on ten types of sectoral aid and twenty-seven indicators of socio-economic and political grievances in aid-receiving countries and tested their independent and interactive effects on decreasing terrorist events.
Is the US in a space race against China?
Apr 12, 2023 12:48 pm UTC| Science
Headlines proclaiming the rise of a new space race between the U.S. and China have become common in news coverage following many of the exciting launches in recent years. Experts have pointed to Chinas rapid advancements...
Jul 11, 2022 05:43 am UTC| Politics
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson recently expressed concerns over Chinas aims in space, and in particular, that China would, in some way, claim ownership over the Moon and stop other countries from exploring it. In an...
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