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I am a realist, but I tend to stray toward a constructivist understanding of how society orders itself. My research shows elements of both of these theoretical leanings. One thing that is certain about my research is that it is based on logical positivism and the empirical process of determining causation and relationship between phenomena. My research lies at the intersection of international environmental politics, ethnic conflict, and international security studies. My dissertation is based on the first relationship, environmental scarcity as a causal source of ethnic conflict. More narrowly, I employ both quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis to look at how renewable natural resources, such as water, arable land, and forested land, translate through certain mechanisms (migration, separatism, mobilization, sociopolitical repression) into ethnic conflict. My dissertation employs both time-series modeling and ordered logistical regressions to account for time dependency and the non-linear relationship of scarcity and conflict. A manuscript version of this research is currently under contract. I am also employing data on renewable natural resource scarcity in studying the effects of colonialism on human security in states that were formerly colonized, primarily in Africa and Asia. This research also requires the inclusion of economic reforms required for IMF and World Bank funding. These reforms often come at the cost of permanent damage to the natural resource base of the state. Current research in this area includes looking at resource availability and colonial structures as a source of civil war initiation. An article from this work has been published by Politics and Policy.Research on globalization effects related to conflict has led to several conference papers in collaboration with colleagues from Southern Mississippi. This collaboration led to a chapter on globalization of black markets and funding for terrorism. It has also led to published articles on globalization and emerging economies, one recently published in International Journal of Trade and Global Markets. More recent research focuses on ethnic conflict and civil war in sub-Saharan Africa. In this area I have been working on developing the understanding of greed and grievance hypotheses and the effects of social and economic globalization on onset, duration, and magnitude of civil war. Further research is in the works looking an non-traditional political behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa as a result of belief in the efficacy of democracy and personal understanding of democracy. Below are links to papers that are representative of the work done in these areas . If you have questions about these works email me at: ssstanton@gcc.edu
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