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Courses:
INTR 91: Colloquium on International Research
PS61: International Relations
PS 188-03 Gender Issues in World Politics
PS 90D: Sophomore Seminar: Defense in Democracies
PS125: Building the European Union
PS181: Public Opinion and Foreign Policy

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Recent Publications:

• "Representing Defense: Democratic Control of the Defense Budget in the United States and Western Europe" The Journal of Conflict Resolution, 47/4 (August 2003), 399-422 [with Richard J. Stoll].
• "Gender Differences in Attitudes Toward the Use of Force by the United States, 1990-2003" International Security, 28/1 (Summer 2003), 110-141.
• "Having It Both Ways: European Defense Integration and the Commitment to NATO," Public Opinion Quarterly (Winter 2003), 627-659.
• The Political Fortunes of War: Iraq and the Domestic Standing of President George W. Bush, London: The Foreign Policy Centre, July 2004 [with Richard J. Stoll].
• "Victory Has Many Friends: The American Public and the Use of Military Force, 1981-2005". International Security, 35/1, (Summer 2005).
  • Abstract
• "War President: The Approval Ratings of President George W. Bush," Journal of Conflict Resolution, December 2006 [with Richard J. Stoll].
• "Post-Maastricht Blues: The Welfare State and the Transformation of Public Opinion on European Integration, 1973-2002" [with Russell Dalton]. Acta Politica, 42/2-3 (July 2007), 128-152.
• "Citizen Opinion on Foreign Policy and World Politics," in: The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior, editors Russell J. Dalton and Hans-Dieter Klingemann, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Working Papers:

• "The Gender Gap and National Security in the United States: Dynamics and Correlates of Public Opinion on Defense Spending and the Use of Military Force" Convention of the International Studies Association, March 2002.
• Gender, National Security, and the Election of 2004
  • September 30, 2004 (original paper)
  • October 13, 2004 (update in PDF)
  • October 26, 2004 (update in PDF)
  • October 31, 2004 (update in PDF)
• "Global Public Opinion on the Use of Military Force from the First Gulf War to the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq" International Studies Association, March 2006.
• "Gender Differences in Support for the Use of Military Force in Cross-National Perspective: The War System, Modernization, and the Universal Logics of Military Action" Convention of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2007.

Datasets:

• "Representing Defense: Democratic Control of the Defense Budget in the United States and Western Europe" The Journal of Conflict Resolution, 47/4 (August 2003), 399-422 [with Richard J. Stoll].
• Eichenberg, Richard C. 2003. Public Opinion on European Defense Integration and NATO: Tables and Analysis. This data accompanies my article, "Having It Both Ways: European Defense Integration and the Commitment to NATO," Public Opinion Quarterly (Winter 2004), forthcoming.

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