Academic Staff

Professor Han Dorussen received his MA in political science from the University of Nijmegen and his Ph.D. in government for the University of Texas at Austin. He has been a lecturer at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. Between 2008 and 2011, he was Head of Department of Government at the University of Essex. He is associate editor for the Journal of Peace Research. His research focus is on international relations, international and comparative political economy and applied game theory. Current research interests include the relationship between trade and conflict, the use of economic policies in international politics, peacekeeping operations and the governance of post-conflict societies, and policy convergence in the European Union. Co-editor (with Michael Taylor) of Economic Voting (Routledge 2002). Published articles in Public Choice, International Organization, World Politics, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Interactions, European Union Politics, and Electoral Studies. He is married to Marian de Vooght, and lives with their two daughters, Delfi and Hendrikje, in Wivenhoe, Essex.

BA/MA Political Science, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

PhD Government, University of Texas at Austin, USA.

The relationship between trade and conflict, the use of economic policies in international politics, peacekeeping operations and the governance of post-conflict societies, and policy convergence in the European Union.

International relations, international and comparative political economy and applied game theory

GV906: Conflict Resolution and Peace

GV508-SP: The Analysis of Conflict and Peace

2013. 'Into the Lion's Den: Local Responses to UN Peacekeeping', Journal of Peace Research, forthcoming, (with Ismene Gizelis).

2013. 'Managing Mistrust: an Analysis of Cooperation with UN Peacekeeping in Africa', Journal of Conflict Resolution, 57 (3), 387 - 409, (with Andrea Ruggeri and Ismene Gizelis).

2013. 'European Integration and Electoral Democracy: How the EU Constrains Party Competition in the Member States', European Journal of Political Research, 25 (1), 71 - 93, (with Kyriaki Nanou); see also 'European integration constrains party competition in the member states' on the EUROPP (European Politics and Policy) blog-site (http://bit.ly/193X72T), hosted by the LSE.

2012. 'International Dimensions of Internal Conflict', in: Graham Brown and Arnim Langer (eds), Elgar Handbook of Civil War and Fragile States. Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA, US, Edward Elgar, pp. 214 - 222, (with Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Nils Metternich, and Andrea Ruggeri).

2011. 'Any Ties that Bind? Diplomacy on the South Asian Subcontinent', The Hague Journal of International Diplomacy, 6, 149 - 169; reprinted in: Bergeijk, Peter A.G. van, Maaike Okano-Heijmans, and Jan Melissen (eds), Economic Diplomacy, Economic and Political Perspectives. Leiden, the Netherlands, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, pp. 149 - 170, (with Syed Mansoob Murshed and Hugh Ward).

2011. 'Globalization, Party Positions, and the Median Voter', World Politics, 63 (3), 509 - 547, (with Hugh Ward and Lawrence Ezrow).

2011. 'Event Data as Bismarck's Sausages? Intercoder Reliability, Coder Selection and Data Quality', International Interactions, 37 (3), 340 - 361, (with Andrea Ruggeri and Ismene Gizelis).

2011. ‘Disaggregated trade flows and international conflict’, in Christopher J. Coyne and Rachel L. Mathers (eds), The Handbook on the Political Economy of War. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, US, Edward Elgar, pp. 515 - 533 (with Hugh Ward).

2010. ‘Conclusion: Structure, agency and the barriers to global security governance’, in Emil J. Kirchner and James Sperling (eds), National Security Cultures. Patterns of Global Governance. London, UK, Routledge, pp. 287 - 302 (with Emil J. Kirchner and James Sperling).

2010. 'Liberal peace en economische diplomatie', Internationale Spectator, 64 (2), 91 - 94, (with Hugh Ward).

2010. ‘Trade Networks and the Kantian Peace’, Journal of Peace Research, 47 (1),  29 - 42, (with Hugh Ward).

2009. ‘Ökonomische und politische Zwangsmassnahmen in ethnopolitischen Konflikt’, in Margit Bussmann, Andreas Hasenclever, and Gerald Schneider (eds), Identität, Institutionen und Ökonomie: Ursachen innenpolitischer Gewalt. PVS - Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Sonderheft 43 / 2009. Wiesbaden, Germany, GWV Fachverlage, 417 - 444.

2009. ‘Sharing the Burden of Collective Security in the European Union. Research Note’, International Organization, 63 (4), 789 - 810 (with Emil Kirchner and James Sperling).

2008. ‘Inter Governmental Organizations and the Kantian Peace: A Network Perspective’, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 52 (2), 189 - 212 (with Hugh Ward).

2007. ‘Public commitment strategies in intergovernmental negotiations on the EU Constitutional Treaty”’, Review of International Organizations, 2, (2), 131 - 152 (with Hartmut Lenz and Hugh Ward).

2006. ‘European Integration, Intergovernmental Bargaining, and Convergence of Party Programs’, European Union Politics, 7 (2), 235 - 256 (with Kyriaki Nanou).

2006. ‘Heterogeneous Trade Interests and Conflict: What You Trade Matters’, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 50 (1), 87 - 107.

2006. 'Denmark: The Nordic Model as an Effort to Bridge Elite Euro-Optimism and Popular Euro-Skepticism',  in: Thomas König and Simon Hug (eds), Policy-making Processes and the European Constitution. London, Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science, 2006, pp, 69–76 (with Hartmut Lenz).

2006. 'The ‘Third Way’ of Sweden towards the European Constitution: Promoting Social Policies and Safeguarding Neutrality', in: Thomas König and Simon Hug (eds), Policy-making Processes and the European Constitution, London, Routledge/ECPR studies in European Political Science, pp. 226 - 233 (with Hartmut Lenz).

2005. ‘Governance, Development, and State Building’, European Journal of Development Research, 17 (3), 411 - 422.

2005. ‘Assessing the Reliability and Validity of Expert Interviews’, European Union Politics, 6 (3), 315 - 338 (with Spyros Blavoukos and Hartmut Lenz).

2004. ‘Pim Fortuyn and the “New” Far Right in the Netherlands’, Representation, 40 (2), 131 - 145.

2003. ‘Colonial Wars and the Democratic Peace’, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 47 (4), 520 - 548 (with Hilde Ravlo and Nils-Petter Gleditsch).

2003. ‘Extending the Multi-Country Model of Trade and Conflict’, in Gerald Schneider, Katherine Barbieri, and Nils-Petter Gleditsch (eds), Globalization and Armed Conflict. Lanham, MD, US, Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 77 - 102 (with Håvard Hegre).

2002. Economic Voting, London, Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science (with Michaell Taylor), [Transferred to Digital Printing, 2007].

2002. 'The Context of Economic Voting: An Introduction', in: Han Dorussen and Michaell Taylor (eds), Economic Voting. Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science, pp. 1 - 14 (with Harvey D. Palmer).

2002. ‘Group Dynamics of Economic Voting: A Comparison of the Netherlands and Germany’, in Han Dorussen and Michaell Taylor (eds), Economic Voting, London, Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science, pp. 92 - 120 (with Michaell Taylor).

2002. 'Conclusions', in: Han Dorussen and Michaell Taylor (eds), Economic Voting. Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science, pp. 303 - 310.

2002. ‘Trade and Conflict in Multi-Country Models. A Rejoinder’, Journal of Peace Research 39 (1), 115 - 118.

2002. ‘Trade Coalitions and the Balance of Power’, in Ulrich Druwe, Volker Kunz, and Thomas Plümper (eds), Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie; Folge 1/2001. Opladen, Leske und Budrich, pp. 153 - 180.

2001. ‘The Political Context of Issue-Priority Voting: Coalitions and Economic Voting in the Netherlands, 1970-1999’, Electoral Studies, 20 (3), 399 - 426 (with Michaell Taylor).

2001. ‘Ending Sanctions: Audience Costs and Rent-Seeking as Commitment Strategies’, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 45: (4), 395 - 426 (with Jongryn R. Mo).

2001. ‘Mixing Carrots with Sticks. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Positive Incentives’, Journal of Peace Research, 38 (2), 251 - 262.

1999. ‘Balance of Power Revisited: A Multi-Country Model of Trade and Conflict’, Journal of Peace Research, 36 (4), 443 - 462.

1999. ‘Equilibrium in Multicandidate Probabilistic Spatial Voting’, Public Choice, 98 (1-2), 59 - 82 (with Tse-Min Lin and James Enelow).