Sullivan awarded Smith Richardson Foundation grant

Assistant Professor Patricia Sullivan in the School of Public and International Affairs Department of International Affairs has been awarded a Smith Richardson Foundation Junior Faculty Research Grant in International Security and Foreign Policy for 2008-2009. 

This prestigious international grant competition supports the research and writing of a scholarly book on a topic of interest to the policy community.  Awarded annually to at least three tenure-track junior faculty, the grant is worth $60,000.  Sullivan’s project, At What Price Victory? Using Military Force as a Policy Instrument, will explore why states with significant advantages in capabilities and resources are often unable to attain even limited objectives when they use military force against much weaker adversaries. Sullivan’s dissertation on the same subject was awarded the 2004-2006 Walter Isard Award for the Best Dissertation in Peace Science by the Peace Science Society International and the 2005 Dissertation Award by the American Political Science Association-affiliated Committee on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (CAMOS).

Dr. Sullivan joined the SPIA faculty in the fall of 2005 after receiving her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California—Davis.  She is widely published and an article on the duration of major power military interventions is forthcoming in Conflict Management and Peace Science.  Sullivan’s research has been funded by a variety of organizations, including the National Science Foundation, the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, and UGA’s Research Foundation.

Sullivan teaches courses in international relations theory, national security policy, peace studies, American foreign policy and international conflict.

For more information about Dr. Sullivan’s research, visit her website:  http://tsulli.myweb.uga.edu/ .

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