Jacqueline Hazelton

Jacqueline Hazelton

Visiting Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Brandeis, 2011. International Relations. Professor Hazelton's research interests include international relations theory, international security, compellence, counterinsurgency, terrorism, Islamic political thought, U.S. foreign policy, and the uses of U.S. military power. Her dissertation, Compellence and Accommodation in Counterinsurgency Warfare, asks under what conditions states defeat insurgencies in the post-1945 era. Hazelton tests the conventional wisdom that a population-centric counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy of state building and limiting targeting of guerrillas is necessary to defeat an insurgency, and finds that this belief is based on a misreading of history. She develops a theory that successful COIN requires a lot of fighting and a little limited, targeted accommodation of political entrepreneurs. It does not require building state civilian capabilities, democratization, development, or winning broad popular support. Hazelton's findings challenge the efficacy of current U.S. foreign and military policies intended to assure security at home by defeating insurgents and terrorists abroad through a process of state building. Hazelton spent the past two years as a research fellow in the International Security Program, Harvard Kennedy School. She returned to academia from a career as an international journalist with The Associated Press.

Courses

  • IR 228 International Security
  • IR 230 The Tools of U.S. Foreign Policy
  • IR 231 Counterinsurgency in Theory and Practice
  • IR 233 Internal Conflict and International Intervention