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Indiana University Bloomington
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Adjunct and Affiliated Faculty : Faculty & Staff

Karen RaslerKaren Rasler

  • Professor, Department of Political Science Adjunct
  • Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Education

  • Ph.D. at Florida State University, 1981, Political Science

Research Interests

  • International conflict and cooperation
  • Relative decline of world powers
  • War and statebuilding processes
  • Societal consequences of war
  • Modeling long cycles of war
  • Distribution of power and technological innovations
  • Political violence and internal wars
  • American Foreign Policy

Contact Information

krasler@indiana.edu
Woodburn Hall 210
(812) 855-2027

Courses Recently Taught

  • Contentious Politics
  • IR Theory

Publication Highlights

  • War and Statemaking: The Shaping of Civil Wars, (1989) (co-authored with William R. Thompson).
  • The Great Powers and Global Struggle, 1490-1990, (1994) (co-authored with William R. Thompson).
  • Puzzles of the Democratic Peace: Theory, Geopolitics and the Transformation of World Politics (2005) (co-authored with William R. Thompson).
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