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Contact me about: South China Sea territorial and maritime disputes, East China Sea dispute (Senkaku/Diaoyu), Dokdo/Takeshima dispute, international  maritime law, US security strategy in East Asia, Philippine foreign policy, Hezbollah, Middle East power politics.

RESEARCH EXPERTISE/INTERESTS

interstate conflict, civil conflict, political violence, conflict management/processes, territorial and maritime disputes, coercive diplomacy, mediation, legally binding resolution methods, militarized interstate disputes, bargaining strategies, grievances and strategies of terrorist and rebel groups, reputation for resolve, issues approach

LATEST NEWS:

Check here for updates on the ICOW Dataset on the management of territorial, maritime, river, and identity claims.

We have completed data collection for all rebel groups
in Africa and Latin America for our NSF funded
Issues in Civil Wars data project!

Hello! I'm an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science,  Director of the Global Security Program and Faculty Fellow at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, 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 - specifically conflict resolution, territorial and maritime disputes, mediation in international and civil wars, rebel and terrorist group goals, East Asian and Middle East security.

I am Co-Editor-in-Chief with Dr. Brandon Prins of the journal International Studies Quarterly, the flagship journal of the International Studies Association, until the end of 2023.

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 writing a book on territorial and maritime disputes with Dr. Emilia J. Powell. I have written 39 journal articles, book chapters, and policy briefs and am involved in 8 other research projects. 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, public talks, and media interviews at kwiegand@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.    

EDUCATION & TRAINING

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

Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy, 2018

American University, School of International Service
Bridging the Gap International Policy Summer Institute, 2018

American University of Beirut
Intensive Arabic, 2002  

Columbia University
Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS), 2003      

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

National Science Foundation, 2018-2020
Department of Defense Minerva Initiative, 2015-2018
Fulbright Senior Scholar, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, 2017
Visiting Scholar, East-West Center, University of Hawaii-Manoa, 2016
Global Security Faculty Fellow, Howard H. Baker Center for Public Policy, 2014-
POSCO Visiting Fellow, East-West Center, University of Hawaii-Manoa, 2013