Professor Jaroslav Tir
Professor Jaroslav Tir obtained his PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2001 and teaches in the Department of Political Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research interests include territorial disputes, environmental conflict and security, domestic and ethnic conflict, and the diversionary theory of war. His work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of Peace Research, International Studies Quarterly and Conflict Management and Peace Science.