Paul R. Hensel
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2230
Phone: (850) 644-7318
Fax: (850) 644-1367
phensel@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~phensel
Areas of Specialization
- International Relations
- International Conflict
- Territorial claims
- International river management
- Conflict management
Education
- Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996.
- M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993.
- B.A., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1991.
Professional Experience
- Associate Professor, Florida State University, August 2001 to present.
- Assistant Professor, Florida State University, August 1995 to July 2001.
Courses Taught
For more details on my teaching interests and policies, please visit my Teaching page
Undergraduate
- "Introduction to International Relations" (INR 2002)
- "Geography, History, and International Relations" (INR 3004 - previously taught as INR 3933 and INR 3005)
- "Theories of International Relations" (INR 3603)
- "International Conflict" (INR 4083)
- "Understanding Political Science Research/'Research Methods'" (POS 3713)
Graduate
- "Core Seminar in International Relations" (INR 5007)
- "Contexts in International Relations" (INR 5014)
- "International Conflict" (INR 5088)
- "Advanced Research in International Relations" (INR 6910; syllabus not available online)
- "Research Design / 'Methods I'" (POS 5736)
Other
- From 2003-2006 I directed the Public Affairs Living-Learning Community at FSU (also known as the Broward Hall Program during those years). My duties included teaching a one-credit Seminar in International Affairs (POS 3931) as well as handling admissions, scheduling events, and coordinating with FSU's other living-learning communities and administrators.
- Drawing from my experience teaching INR 3004 and INR 5014 (both listed above), I was asked to give a presentation on Borders and Correlates of War (this link is to a .zip archive containing both the handout and the PowerPoint presentation itself) at a short course on borders held before the 2006 APSA conference in Philadelphia.
Grants Received
"Colonial Legacies and Territorial Claims." (with HeeMin Kim and Dale Smith) From the Northeast History Foundation (South Korea); March 2008 - August 2009. (approximately $60,000, pending exchange rates)
"Bones of Contention: Comparing Territorial, River, and Maritime Issues in World Politics." (with Sara McLaughlin Mitchell) From the National Science Foundation; July 2002 through June 2004. ($175,000)
"Freshwater and Maritime Issues in World Politics." (with Sara McLaughlin Mitchell) From the National Science Foundation; January 2001 through December 2001. ($86,838)
"Collaborative Research on Updating the Militarized Interstate Dispute Data Set." (part of an eleven-university project, centered at Penn State University; Florida State was the center for research on militarized conflict in South America) From the National Science Foundation; July 2000 through June 2002. ($51,806)
"Water Disputes and Conflict in the Middle East." From the Committee on Faculty Research Support (COFRS) Grant, Florida State University, Summer 1999; covered May 1999 through August 1999. ($8,000)
Publications
For more details on my research interests, please visit my Research page and my page about the ICOW Project. Many of these papers may be downloaded in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format; HTML abstracts are available for the remaining papers.
Journal Articles
Paul R. Hensel, Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, Thomas E. Sowers II, and Clayton L. Thyne, "Bones of Contention: Comparing Territorial, Maritime, and River Issues." Journal of Conflict Resolution 2008, 1 (February).
- See also this paper's Web appendix (PDF format) and replication data (.zip archive with STATA data and do-file)
Sara McLaughlin Mitchell and Paul R. Hensel, "International Institutions and Compliance with Agreements." Forthcoming in American Journal of Political Science, 2007 (October).
- See also this paper's Web appendix
Paul R. Hensel, Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, and Thomas E. Sowers II, "Conflict Management of Riparian Disputes: A Regional Comparison of Dispute Resolution." Political Geography 25, 4 (May 2006): 383-411.
Paul R. Hensel and Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, "Issue Indivisibility and Territorial Claims." GeoJournal 64, 4 (December 2005): 275-285.
Paul R. Hensel, "The More Things Change...: Recognizing and Responding to Trends in Armed Conflict." Conflict Management and Peace Science 19, 1 (Spring 2002): 27-53.
Paul R. Hensel, "Contentious Issues and World Politics: The Management of Territorial Claims in the Americas, 1816-1992." International Studies Quarterly 45, 1 (March 2001): 81-109.
- Authorized users may prefer the official JSTOR version of this paper.
Paul R. Hensel, Gary Goertz, and Paul F. Diehl, "The Democratic Peace and Rivalries." Journal of Politics 62, 4 (November 2000): 1173-1188.
- Authorized users may prefer the official JSTOR version of this paper.
Paul R. Hensel, "An Evolutionary Approach to the Study of Interstate Rivalry." Conflict Management and Peace Science 17, 2 (Fall 1999).
Paul R. Hensel, "Charting a Course to Conflict: Territorial Issues and Interstate Conflict, 1816-1992." Conflict Management and Peace Science 15, 1 (Fall 1996): 43-73.
Paul F. Diehl, Jennifer Reifschneider, and Paul R. Hensel, "United Nations Intervention and Recurring Conflict." International Organization 50,4 (Autumn 1996): 683-700.
- Authorized users may prefer the official JSTOR version of this paper.
Paul R. Hensel and Paul F. Diehl, "It Takes Two to Tango: Non-Militarized Response in Interstate Disputes." Journal of Conflict Resolution 38,3 (Sept.1994): 479-506.
- Authorized users may prefer the official JSTOR version of this paper.
Paul R. Hensel, "One Thing Leads to Another: Recurrent Militarized Disputes in Latin America, 1816-1986." Journal of Peace Research 31,3 (Aug.1994): 281-297.
- Authorized users may prefer the official JSTOR version of this paper.
Paul R. Hensel and Paul F. Diehl, "Testing Empirical Propositions about Shatterbelts." Political Geography 13,1 (Jan.1994): 33-51.
Book Chapters
Paul R. Hensel, "Evolution in Domestic Politics and the Development of Rivalry: The Bolivia-Paraguay Case." In William R. Thompson, ed., Evolutionary World Politics. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Paul R. Hensel, "Territory: Theory and Evidence on Geography and Conflict." In John A. Vasquez, ed., What Do We Know about War?. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000, pp. 57-84.
Paul R. Hensel, "The Evolution of the Franco-German Rivalry." In William R. Thompson, ed., Great Power Rivalries. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1999.
Paul R. Hensel, "Charting a Course to Conflict: Territorial Issues and Interstate Conflict, 1816-1992." In Paul F. Diehl, ed., A Road Map to War: Territorial Dimensions of International Conflict. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 1999, pp.115-146.
Paul R. Hensel, "Interstate Rivalry and the Study of Militarized Conflict." In Frank P. Harvey and Ben D. Mor, eds., Conflict in World Politics: Advances in the Study of Crisis, War and Peace. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998, pp. 162-204.
Dissertation
The Evolution of Interstate Rivalry. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996.
- Co-recipient of the Walter Isard Award for the Best Dissertation in Peace Science, 1994-1996.
Work in Progress
These papers may be downloaded in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.
Manuscript Submissions
Paul R. Hensel, Michael Allison, and Ahmed Khanani, "Territorial Integrity Treaties and Armed Conflict over Territory." Forthcoming in Conflict Management and Peace Science, late 2008.
- This paper was recently accepted for publication with a few minor revisions. The final version of the paper will be posted here soon.
Stephen C. Nemeth, Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, Elizabeth A. Nyman, and Paul R. Hensel, "Ruling the Sea: Institutionalization and Privatization of the Global Ocean Commons." Paper presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago.
- Submitted to International Organization, March 2008.
Current Projects and Working Papers
Paul R. Hensel, "Territorial Claims and Armed Conflict between Neighbors." Paper presented as a keynote speaker at the Lineae Terrarum International Borders Conference, El Paso, TX, March 2006.
- This paper is currently being divided and revised for submission to two places: a more heavily quantitative portion will be submitted to an academic journal in late 2007, while a more conceptual portion will be included in an edited volume related to the Lineae Terrarum conference where this was first presented.
Paul R. Hensel, Michael E. Allison, and John Tures, "Credible Commitments and Negotiations over Territory." Working paper, Florida State University.
- This is the first paper in a series of projects examining domestic influences on the management of contentious issues; this paper focuses on how specific types of domestic constraints affect the likelihood that states will attempt to negotiate over their issues, the likelihood that these negotiations will produce agreements, and the likelihood that any agreements reached will be carried out. Future papers will use the same general theoretical model to account for the use and effectiveness of specific types of third parties in helping to manage or settle territorial issues, as well as the impact of issue management or settlement on leader survival in office. This first paper will be submitted to a major journal in the 2007-2008 academic year, and draws from portions of the following previous papers:
- Michael E. Allison and Paul R. Hensel, "Who Cares?: Domestic Politics and the Management of Territorial Claims." Presented at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association. (This conference paper was the beginning of this general research project, although we are now using a much more generalizable theoretical model that offers many other implications; the leader survival analyses from this paper will ultimately be part of a separate followup paper.)
- Paul R. Hensel, "Domestic Politics and Interstate Rivalry: An Empirical Analysis." Presented at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta. (This goes into more detail about some of the domestic constraints that we are examining in this project, although we are now applying them to issue management rather than to rivalry as in this earlier conference paper.)
Paul R. Hensel and Marit Brochmann, "Armed Conflict over International Rivers: The Onset and Militarization of River Claims." Paper presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago.
- Once the river claims data set is complete for the entire world (hopefully sometime in spring 2008) we plan to submit this paper to a major scholarly journal, as this will be the most complete and most systematic analysis of the origins of conflict (both diplomatic and military) specifically over international rivers. We are also planning two followup papers:
- Marit Brochmann and Paul R. Hensel, "Peaceful Management of International River Claims." To be presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco. This will be an effort to expand the 2007 ISA paper by examining the impact of river treaties on the peaceful management and settlement of river claims.
- Paul R. Hensel, Marit Brochmann, and Jaroslav Tir [order of authors still undetermined], "The Creation and Impact of Treaties over International Rivers." To be presented at the 2008 World International Studies Congress, Ljubljana, Slovenia. This will be an effort to expand the 2007 and 2008 ISA papers by examining the origins of river treaties as well as their impact.
Finally, several former FSU grad students and I are working on a project on colonial legacies and territorial claims, which pays special attention to the legal doctrine of Uti Possidetis Juris. This project has led to a $60,000 grant from the Northeast History Foundation (in Seoul, South Korea) and will ultimately produce a book. The first paper from the project will be submitted to an academic journal sometime in 2008, and will draw from portions of the following previous papers:
- Paul R. Hensel, Michael Allison, and Ahmed Khanani, "Territorial Integrity Treaties, Uti Possidetis, and Armed Conflict over Territory." [Note that the portions of this paper dealing with territorial integrity treaties rather than Uti Possidetis or colonial legacies have been split into a separate paper and submitted to a different journal.]
- Paul R. Hensel, Michael Allison, and Ahmed Khanani, "The Colonial Legacy and Border Stability: Uti Possidetis and Territorial Claims in the Americas."
Other Conference Papers
Paul R. Hensel, "Starting on the Wrong Foot: Political Independence and Territorial Claims." Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., and the 2006 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Diego.
Paul R. Hensel, "Power Politics and Contentious Issues: Realism, Issue Salience, and Conflict Management." Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Honolulu.
Shawn E. Rowan and Paul R. Hensel, "Declining Benefits of Conquest? Economic Development and Territorial Claims in the Americas and Europe." Paper presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Peace Science Society (International), Houston, TX.
Paul R. Hensel, "Militarized Management of Territorial Claims in the Americas, 1816-2001." Paper presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the CEEISA and International Studies Association, Budapest, Hungary. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Portland.
Thomas E. Sowers II and Paul R. Hensel, "Political Shocks, Evolution, and the Origins of Interstate Rivalry." Presented at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association. Earlier versions of what became this paper were presented at the 1998 Vienna conference and the 1997 Peace Science conference.
Paul R. Hensel, "'Hot Hands' and Cold Wars: A Reassessment of the Stochastic Model of Rivalry." Presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco.
Paul R. Hensel, "Reliability and Validity Issues in the Issue Correlates of War (ICOW) Project." Paper presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Minneapolis.
Paul R. Hensel and Paul F. Diehl, "Punctuated Equilibrium or Evolution? A Comparative Test of Two Models of Rivalry Development." Paper presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Peace Science Society (International), New Brunswick, NJ.
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