Benjamin Valentino

Associate Professor of Government
Silsby 208
Benjamin.Valentino@dartmouth.edu

Recent publications

• War by Other Means: The Fate of Civilians in Twentieth Century Warfare, co-authored with Paul Huth (under advanced contract with Princeton University Press).
• "Dilemmas of Armed Humanitarian Intervention," University of Wisconsin International Law Journal, Summer 2006.
• Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the Twentieth Century, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004.
• "Final Solutions, Further Questions: A Symposium on Final Solutions by Benjamin Valentino," with commentaries by John Mueller, Michael Desch, and Stathis Kalyvas, Security Studies, vol 13, no 3: 204-218, Spring 2004.
• "A Victory, But Little Is Gained," Op-Ed with Daryl G. Press, New York Times, p. A29, November, 17, 2004.
• "Draining the Sea: Mass Killing, Guerrilla Warfare," with Paul Huth and Dylan Balch-Lindsay, International Organization, vol 58, no 2: 375-407, Spring 2004.
• "Still Standing By: Why America and the International Community Fail to Prevent Genocide and Mass Killing," Perspectives on Politics, vol 1, no.3: 565-576, September 2003.
• "Draining the Sea: Mass Killing, Genocide, and Guerrilla Warfare", with Paul Huth and Dylan Balch-Lindsay, American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, August 31, 2001.
• "Is the Comparison Between Hitler and Stalin Justified?" in History in Dispute: The Cold War, Benjamin Frankel, ed., Detroit: Gale Research, 2000.
• "The Power of the Few: Public Support and the Perpetrators of Genocide and Mass Killing," American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 2, 2000.
• "Final Solution: The Causes of Mass Killing and Genocide," Security Studies vol. 9, no. 3: 1-59, Spring 2000.

Research interests

• American Foreign Policy
• National Security Policy
• Theories of International Relations
• The causes of war and peace
• The Nuclear Age
• The causes of and solutions to ethic conflict, genocide, and mass killing

Teaching

• International Politics (5)
• International Security (53)
• The Cause and Prevention of Genocide and Mass Killing (85.16)
• Honors Program Co-Director (98/99)