With a B.A. in Politics and Government from the University of Puget Sound, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Binghamton University (SUNY), Dr. Michael A. Allen joined the faculty of the Department of Political Science at Boise State University in 2012. He spent the previous year as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Allen's main areas of study are in world and comparative politics and his research interests include asymmetric relationships in world politics, the economics of war-making, and civil conflict and terrorism. His teaching interests include all aspects of world politics and international relations, and research methodology. He serves as a manuscript reviewer for the International Studies Quarterly and the American Journal of Political Science, and he maintains professional affiliations with the American and Midwest Political Science Associations, the International Studies Association, and the Peace Science Society.
Articles
From Melos to Baghdad: Explaining Resistance to Militarized Challenges from More Powerful States (with Benjamin O. Fordham), International Studies Quarterly (2011)
Most bargaining models of war suggest that the absence of ex-ante uncertainty about the outcome...
Dissertation
Military Basing Abroad: Bargaining, Expectations, and Deployment (2011)
The prospects of and decision for base deployment by a major power into another state's...
Presentations
Deadly Triangles: The Implications of Regional Competition on Demands between Asymmetric States (with Sam Bell and Chad Clay), Midwest Political Science Association (2012)
Asymmetric war continues to be a puzzling occurrence for international relations scholars across multiple theoretical...