November 23, 2009

Paul F. Diehl

Henning Larsen Professor of Political Science

Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan

Areas of Expertise

Quantitative analyses of international conflict; UN peacekeeping operations; geopolitics; international law.

Biography

Professor Diehl is the author or editor of seventeen books and over one hundred articles on international relations matters. His books include The Scourge of War (University of Michigan Press, 2004), A Road Map to War: Territorial Dimensions of International Conflict (Vanderbilt University Press, 1999), The Dynamics of Enduring Rivalries (University of Illinois Press, 1998), International Peacekeeping (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), and Territorial Changes and International Conflict (Routledge, 1992).

Professor Diehl is the Director of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Academy. He is also Director of the Correlates of War Project, the largest data collection project on international conflict in the world. He was designated the Alan M. Hallene University Scholar (1993) and was named a University of Illinois Distinguished Teacher/Scholar (1999). In 1998 he received the Karl Deutsch Award in International Relations and Peace Research from the International Studies Association. For excellence in teaching, he is the three time recipient of the Pi Sigma Alpha/Clarence A. Berdahl Award as well as the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the LAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Selected Publications

Articles or Book Chapters:

“The Peacekeeping-Peacemaking Dilemma” (with Michael Greig) International Studies Quarterly (forthcoming, 2005).
Conceptualizing and Measuring Conflict Management Success – special issue of International Negotiation (edited with Gary Goertz and Frank Harvey) 7, 3 (2002).
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Books or Edited Collections:

War (Volumes 1-6) (London: Sage Publications, 2005)
The Scourge of War: New Extensions on an Old Problem (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004)
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Link(s)

http://www.pol.uiuc.edu/people/profile.asp?pdiehl

Contact Information

Office

383 Lincoln Hall

Mailing Address

Political Science
361 Lincoln
MC-452

Phone

(217) 333-9356

Fax

(217) 244-5712

Email

pdiehl[AT]uiuc[DOT]edu