MA/PhD Supervision

Louis-Philippe Morneau, Theory of Strategic Autonomy: U.S. Foreign Policy between 1823 and 1921, Concordia University Ph.D. Dissertation Department of Political Science 2024.

Mounir Katul, The Influence of International – Domestic Politics on the Production of Ethnic Identities:
The Case of Lebanon (2000 – 2010), Concordia University Ph.D. Dissertation Department of Political Science 2021.

Brent Gerchicoff, The Dynamics of Containment: Alliance Cohesion and American Domestic Politics in Foreign Policy, Concordia University Ph.D. Dissertation Department of Political Science 2021.

Alireza Nouri, Revolution and International Tension, Concordia University M.A. Thesis Department of Political Science 2019.

Alon Burstein, What Makes Them Tick? A Global Comparative Analysis of the Tactics and Deadliness of Terror Organizations, Concordia University M.A. Thesis Department of Political Science 2016.

Brent Gerchicoff, The Rockets' Red Glare: The impact of technology on U.S. nuclear strategy from
Eisenhower to Carter Concordia University M.A. Thesis Department of Political Science 2016.

Jean-Philippe Lacasse, War in the Global Village: Terrorism in an Era of Contracted Social Time and Space, Royal Roads University M.A. Thesis Department of Political Science 2009.

Edmund Hoh, Master or Servant? An Examination of Civil-Military Relations and Arms Acquisitions in the Third World, Concordia University M.A. Thesis Department of Political Science 2005.

Mitchell Belfer, An Abacus of Behavior: A Theory of Third Party Intervention, Concordia University M.A. Thesis Department of Political Science 2001.

Advice for Thesis and Dissertation Writing: First think long and hard about whether losing ten years of your life is worth it. It is important that you activate your mating strategy at this point because you will not live for long after you finish your dissertation and eventually get a job. Pick either the very well-know conventional wisdom in the literature, or (better), what everyone believes in the policy world. Then smash it. Never promise a theory, but come up with one. Read a lot of history, and then draw the target where the bullet lands. Try and publish every course paper you write, and don't get hung up or obsessed with any one submission. Do not procrastinate: send it out fast. Fire and forget. Also, make these papers contribute or fit into the chapters of your dissertation. Apply for every grant there is, just for the experience. Your grant should always ask for money for work you have already completed (since you will be an expert), and not for future work you don't know anything about. Avoid too many conferences as they make you lazy. Don't worry too much about the lit review, 'cause the publisher will cut it from your book anyway. He doesn't care that you are an expert, he just wants your theory, since that is what sells. Publish, publish, publish.