---

CURRICULUM VITAE
     RESEARCH EXPERTISE/INTERESTS

• conflict management/processes, conflict resolution, mediation, international arbitration & adjudication
• territorial and maritime disputes, maritime security
• civil conflict, mediation, grievances and strategies of terrorist and rebel groups, political violence
• East Asian disputes - South China Sea, East China Sea, Sea of Japan/East Sea
• East Asian security, US-Asian alliances
• issues approach, identity claims

EDUCATION
Duke University
Ph.D., Political Science, 2004
M.A., Political Science, 2001
Fields of concentration: International Relations & Security Studies

American University, School of International Service
M.A., Comparative & Regional Studies: Middle East, 1997
B.A., International Studies, 1993

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
Consolidated Nuclear Security-Y-12, 2020-2021
National Science Foundation, 2018-2020
Department of Defense Minerva Initiative, 2015-2018
Fulbright Senior Scholar, De La Salle University, Philippines, 2017
Visiting Scholar, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2016
Global Security Fellow, Howard H. Baker Center for Public Policy, 2014-
POSCO Visiting Fellow, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2013

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy, 2018
Bridging the Gap International Policy Summer Institute, 2018
Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations & Strategy, 2003    
American University of Beirut, Intensive Arabic, 2002

LATEST NEWS:
New article in Peace & War Studies Journal
with Jessie Hayoun Ryou-Ellison:
“The Influence of the South China Sea Disputes
on US-Chinese Relations”

New article in British Journal of Politics & International Relations with Eric Keels & Erin Rowland:
"An Inside Job? Mediator Knowledge and Settlement in Civil Wars"

The Peaceful Resolution of Territorial Disputes (PRTD)
data set published in JPR is now available! Click here to download the replication files.

In my NSF funded research project, Issues in Civil Wars (ICW), we have completed data collection about rebel groups from the Middle East and are currently collecting data in Europe and Asia.

Hello! I am the Director of the Global Security Program and Faculty Fellow at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, and the Chair of Middle East Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I am an International Relations scholar specializing in international conflict management and political violence.  I am Co-Editor-in-Chief with Dr. Brandon Prins of the journal International Studies Quarterly, the flagship journal of the International Studies Association.

I have written two books - Enduring Territorial Disputes: Strategies of Bargaining, Coercive Diplomacy, & Settlement (University of Georgia Press, 2011) and Bombs and Ballots: Governance by Islamic Terrorist and Guerrilla Groups (Routledge, 2010), edited another book - The China-Japan Border Dispute: Islands of Contention in a Multidisciplinary Perspective (Routledge, 2015), and am currently finishing a book manuscript on the peaceful resolution of territorial disputes with Dr. Emilia J. Powell. I was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in the Philippines in 2017 and am involved in 2 U.S. government funded data collection projects, one from the Department of Defense Minerva Initiative and the other from the National Science Foundation.           

I can be reached for inquiries about my research, data sets, public talks, and media interviews at kwiegand at utk.edu or 865-974-0969. My address is Howard Baker Center for Public Policy, University of Tennessee, 1640 Cumberland Ave., Knoxville, TN 37996-3839.