Threat Perception in Foreign Policy Decision-Making
Marika Landau-Wells, Professor
Political Science
Closed. This professor is continuing with Fall 2024 apprentices on this project; no new apprentices needed for Spring 2025.
Threat perception has always played a major role in foreign and domestic policy-making. From Covid to climate change to terrorism, policy-makers have made decisions about which potential threats to address and which to ignore. This project investigates how policy-makers in the U.S. and in other countries determine which strategies to adopt to deal with threats they decide to address.
Role: Continuing apprentices will work on their ongoing projects. The primary tasks for new apprentices on this project are:
1) Producing an annotated bibliography of recent threat perception-related scholarly literature
2) Researching existing policy datasets with global coverage for the early 2000s on counter-terrorism policy and climate change policy
Qualifications: The ideal candidate will have some familiarity with:
1) Experience conducting desk-based scholarly research
2) Familiarity with data entry, ideally in Excel or Sheets
Hours: to be negotiated
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