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Assistant Professor of Government
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Benjamin.Valentino@dartmouth.edu

B.A., Political Science, Stanford University
Ph.D. Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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

Last Updated: 1/3/08