Evangelista, Matthew Anthony

Professor

research

research and scholarship focus

relationship between gender, nationalism, and war; ethical and legal issues in international affairs (particularly, just war theory and international humanitarian law); transnational relations; and separatist movements

international geographic focus

affiliations

head of

faculty appointment in

administrative appointment

member of graduate field

other Cornell affiliations

teaching

teaching focus

international and comparative politics

service

current professional activities

  • American Friends Service Committee, East-West Program Board, 1988-1989
  • American Political Science Association, Chair, Helen Dwight Reid Award committee, 1991
  • American Political Science Association, Comparative Politics Section Article Award committee, Luebbert Article Award, 2000
  • American Political Science Association, Jervis-Schroeder Book Prize Committee, 2003
  • Cornell University Press, Editorial Board, 1999-2001
  • Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies, Board of Directors, 1996-present
  • International Organization, Editorial Board, 1995-2000
  • IO Foundation, Board of Directors, 1995-2000
  • Journal of International Relations and Development, Advisory Board, 2004-present
  • MacArthur Foundation, Fellowship committee, 1988-1990
  • National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, Board of Directors, 1998-2005, Executive Committee, 1999-2005, Chair of the Board, 2000-2001, Vice-President of the Edward L. Keenan Endowment, 2000-2001
  • Problems of Post-Communism, Editorial Board, 2003-2005 
  • Program on New Approaches to Russian Security, 1997-present; Executive Committee, 1998-2001
  • Social Science Research Council, Graduate fellowship committee, 1991
  • World Politics, Editorial Board, 1991-1997

event participant

background

educational background

  • Cornell University, Ph.D., Government, 1986 
  • Cornell University, M.A., Government, 1984
  • Harvard College, A.B., Magna Cum Laude in History and Literature (Russia), 1981
  • Pushkin Institute, Moscow, Certificate in Russian Language, 1979
  • International Institute of Humanitarian Law, Sanremo and Geneva, Certificate, 4th Summer Course on International Humanitarian Law, 2004

professional background

  • Professor, Department of Government, Cornell University, 1998-present
  • Director, Peace Studies Program, Cornell University, 2002-present
  • Visiting Professor, Alta Scuola di Economia e Relazioni Internazionali (ASERI), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy, 2003-present
  • Visiting Professor and Visiting Fulbright Lecturer, Dipartimento di Politica, Istituzioni, Storia, and Dipartimento di Organizzazione e Sistema Politico (Forlì), Università di Bologna, Italy, 2005-2006
  • Course Director, International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts, 19th Winter Course, Andalo (Trento), Italy, 2006
  • Jean Monnet Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 2002
  • Associate Professor, Department of Government, Cornell University, 1996-1998
  • Director, International Relations Concentration, Cornell University, 1996-2001
  • Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan, 1991-1996
  • Visiting Scholar, Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1993-1995
  • Visiting Associate Professor, Wellesley College, 1994
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan, 1986-1991

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

  • The Chechen Wars: Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union? (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2002, cloth and paperback). Finnish translation, Tshetshenian sodat - hajoaako Venäjä? (Helsinki: Like Kustannus, 2004).
  • Unarmed Forces: The Transnational Movement to End the Cold War (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999, paperback, 2002).
  • Innovation and the Arms Race: How the United States and the Soviet Union Develop New Military Technologies (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988; paperback, 1989).