I am a political scientist specializing in the areas of international relations and comparative politics. I received my PhD from Syracuse University in 2017, my MA from the Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago in 2010, and my BA in International Relations and Diplomacy, and Economics from the Ohio State University in 2009.
In August 2019 I started a new position at University of Texas at San Antonio. I am teaching courses in the Academic Introduction and Strategies Department for the Social Science and Exploratory Pathways. I also teach an Honors pathway course on the special topic of globalization and the global community, and have developed coursework for the Graduate Certificate in National Security Studies. I previously offered Ethics and International Relations, American Intelligence Agencies, and Comparative Civil-Military Relations as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Gettysburg College, and International Security as a Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University.
My research focuses on domestic and international security, international law and norms, terrorism, and counterterrorism. Most recently, my work on state perceptions of far-right and international terrorism and the effects of ontological security has appeared in Security Dialogue. In the European Journal of International Relations, I examined anarchists’ contestation of norms regulating the state monopoly on violence, and the effect this had on states’ decision to update and expand these norms. My research on international humanitarian and human rights law in counterterrorism has appeared in Global Constitutionalism, and my research on the strategy of exclusion in American counterterrorism has appeared in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. These and other ongoing research projects have been supported by funding for visits to the National Archives in College Park, MD and Washington, D.C., the Library of Congress, and the British National Archives in Kew, England.
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Michael Newell 