Paul R. Hensel
Professor of Political Science, University of North Texas
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Areas of Specialization
- International Relations
- International Conflict
- Territorial claims
- International river management
- Conflict management
Education
- Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996.
- M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993.
- B.A., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1991.
Professional Experience
- Professor, University of North Texas, August 2011+.
- Associate Professor, University of North Texas, 2008 to 2011.
- Associate Professor, Florida State University, 2001 to 2008.
- Assistant Professor, Florida State University, 1995 to 2001.
Courses Taught
For more details on my teaching interests and policies, please visit my Teaching page
Undergraduate
- "International Relations" (PSCI 3810 - was INR 2002 at FSU)
- "Geography, History, and International Relations" (PSCI 4820 - was INR 3004/3005/3933 at FSU)
- "International Conflict" (PSCI 4821 - was INR 4083 at FSU)
- "Introduction to Political Research" (PSCI 2300 - was POS 3713 at FSU)
- "Theories of International Relations" (INR 3603 at FSU - no direct equivalent at UNT)
Graduate
- "Proseminar in International Relations" (PSCI 5810 - was INR 5007 at FSU)
- "Contexts in International Relations" (PSCI 5820 - was INR 5014 at FSU)
- "International Conflict" (PSCI 5820 - was INR 5088 at FSU)
- "Research Design / 'Methods I'" (PSCI 5340 - was POS 5736 at FSU)
- "Advanced Research in International Relations" (INR 6910 at FSU - no direct equivalent at UNT)
Other
- From 2003-2006 I directed the Public Affairs Living-Learning Community at FSU (also known as the Broward Hall Program during those years). My duties included teaching a one-credit Seminar in International Affairs (POS 3931) as well as handling admissions, scheduling events, and coordinating with FSU's other living-learning communities and administrators.
- Drawing from my experience teaching PSCI 4820 and PSCI 5820 (both listed above), I was asked to give a presentation on Borders and Correlates of War (this link is to a .zip archive containing both the handout and the PowerPoint presentation itself) at a short course on borders held before the 2006 APSA conference in Philadelphia.
Grants Received
"Contentious Issues in World Politics: Updating the ICOW Dataset." (with Sara McLaughlin Mitchell) From the National Science Foundation; September 2010 - August 2013. ($260,330 for UNT, $160,000 for Iowa)
"Colonial Legacies and Territorial Claims." (with HeeMin Kim and Dale Smith) From the Northeast Asian History Foundation (South Korea); March 2008 - August 2009. ($50,000)
"Bones of Contention: Comparing Territorial, River, and Maritime Issues in World Politics." (with Sara McLaughlin Mitchell) From the National Science Foundation; July 2002 - June 2004. ($175,000)
"Freshwater and Maritime Issues in World Politics." (with Sara McLaughlin Mitchell) From the National Science Foundation; January 2001 - December 2001. ($86,838)
"Collaborative Research on Updating the Militarized Interstate Dispute Data Set." (part of an eleven-university project, centered at Penn State University; Florida State was the center for research on militarized conflict in South America) From the National Science Foundation; July 2000 - June 2002. ($51,806)
"Water Disputes and Conflict in the Middle East." From the Committee on Faculty Research Support (COFRS), Florida State University; May 1999 - August 1999. ($8,000)
Data Sets Created
ICOW Issue Data Sets:
I am the founder and co-director of the Issue Correlates of War (ICOW) research project. The project's main contribution is the collection of data on the salience and management of contentious issues around the world:
- Territorial Claims
- River Claims
- Maritime Claims (collected and maintained by Sara Mitchell)
- Regime Claims (collected and maintained by John Tures)
ICOW Supplementary Data Sets:
The ICOW project has also collected and released several other data sets that scholars might find useful:
- Non-State Actor Codes: A list of actor codes for non-state actors that appear in one or more ICOW data sets (e.g. as third party conflict managers) but are not included in the standard COW interstate system membership list; this list is available in PDF format.
- Colonial History: Past colonial or other dependency relationships for each state. This includes other states or empires that have ruled each state as a colony, protectorate, League of Nations mandate, UN trust territory, or other type of dependency, as well as states that have seceded from existing states and states that have merged into existing states.
- Historical State Names: A web page listing capital cities and alternative names for nation-states in the COW interstate system, including traditional names, alternate spellings of common names, foreign spellings, and some colonial-era names. This data set is meant to help scholars attempting to code historical data, as many older source materials refer to entities by capital cities or by country names that are no longer used or understood, meaning that coders might ignore or mis-code data.
- Multilateral Treaties of Pacific Settlement (MTOPS): A compilation of membership in regional or global organizations that call explicitly for the peaceful settlement of disputes among their members. This currently includes over thirty multilateral treaties and organizations, ranging from the League, UN, and International Court of Justice to a number of relatively obscure South American treatiesfrom the 1920s and 1930s. This data set is compressed in ZIP format and includes both the data set (in treaty-level, state-year-level, and dyad-year-level Stata data files) and the codebook and documentation; the codebook, documentation of included cases, and notes about excluded cases are also available separately in PDF format.
COW Contiguity Data:
I am the data host for the Correlates of War (COW) project's contiguity data. This means that I am in charge of updating and responding to user questions about the following two data sets:
Article Replication Data
- 2001 Hensel ISQ Article: "Contentious Issues and World Politics: The Management of Territorial Claims in the Americas, 1816-1992"
- Data on the management of territorial claims in the Western Hemisphere.
- These files are compressed in ZIP format and include data files (provided in .CSV comma-delimited format), Stata command files to read in the data and run the necessary analyses, and a brief codebook.
- 2000 Hensel, Goertz, and Diehl JOP Article: "The Democratic Peace and Rivalries"
- Data on democracy and rivalries.
- These files are compressed in .ZIP format and include data files (provided in .CSV comma-delimited format), SAS command files to read in the data and run the necessary analyses, and a brief codebook.
- 1994 Hensel and Diehl PG article: "Testing Empirical Propositions about Shatterbelts".
- State-level data on the shatterbelt status of geographic regions.
- This data set is compressed in .ZIP format and is provided in .CSV comma-delimited format, along with a brief codebook.
- Current Version: 1.1 (last revised 27 March 2000)
Publications
For more details on my research interests, please visit my Research page and my page about the ICOW Project. Many of these papers may be downloaded in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format; HTML abstracts are available for the remaining papers.
Journal Articles
Marit Brochmann and Paul R. Hensel (2011). "The Effectiveness of Negotiations over International River Claims." International Studies Quarterly 55, 3 (September): 859-882.
Marit Brochmann and Paul R. Hensel (2009). "Peaceful Management of International River Claims." International Negotiation 14, 2: 391-416.
Paul R. Hensel, Michael Allison, and Ahmed Khanani (2009). "Territorial Integrity Treaties and Armed Conflict over Territory." Conflict Management and Peace Science 26, 2 (April): 120-143.
- See also this paper's Internet Appendix.
Paul R. Hensel, Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, Thomas E. Sowers II, and Clayton L. Thyne (2008). "Bones of Contention: Comparing Territorial, Maritime, and River Issues." Journal of Conflict Resolution 52, 1 (February): 117-143.
- See also this paper's Web appendix (PDF format) and replication data (.zip archive with STATA data and do-file)
Sara McLaughlin Mitchell and Paul R. Hensel (2007). "International Institutions and Compliance with Agreements." American Journal of Political Science 51, 4 (October): 721-737.
- See also this paper's Web appendix
Paul R. Hensel, Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, and Thomas E. Sowers II (2006). "Conflict Management of Riparian Disputes: A Regional Comparison of Dispute Resolution." Political Geography 25, 4 (May): 383-411.
Paul R. Hensel and Sara McLaughlin Mitchell (2005). "Issue Indivisibility and Territorial Claims." GeoJournal 64, 4 (December): 275-285.
Paul R. Hensel (2002). "The More Things Change...: Recognizing and Responding to Trends in Armed Conflict." Conflict Management and Peace Science 19, 1 (Spring): 27-53.
Paul R. Hensel (2001). "Contentious Issues and World Politics: The Management of Territorial Claims in the Americas, 1816-1992." International Studies Quarterly 45, 1 (March): 81-109.
- Authorized users may prefer the official JSTOR version of this paper.
Paul R. Hensel, Gary Goertz, and Paul F. Diehl (2000). "The Democratic Peace and Rivalries." Journal of Politics 62, 4 (November): 1173-1188.
- Authorized users may prefer the official JSTOR version of this paper.
Paul R. Hensel (1999). "An Evolutionary Approach to the Study of Interstate Rivalry." Conflict Management and Peace Science 17, 2 (Fall): 179-206.
Paul R. Hensel (1996). "Charting a Course to Conflict: Territorial Issues and Interstate Conflict, 1816-1992." Conflict Management and Peace Science 15, 1 (Fall): 43-73.
Paul F. Diehl, Jennifer Reifschneider, and Paul R. Hensel (1996). "United Nations Intervention and Recurring Conflict." International Organization 50,4 (Autumn): 683-700.
- Authorized users may prefer the official JSTOR version of this paper.
Paul R. Hensel and Paul F. Diehl (1994). "It Takes Two to Tango: Non-Militarized Response in Interstate Disputes." Journal of Conflict Resolution 38,3 (September): 479-506.
- Authorized users may prefer the official JSTOR version of this paper.
Paul R. Hensel (1994). "One Thing Leads to Another: Recurrent Militarized Disputes in Latin America, 1816-1986." Journal of Peace Research 31,3 (August): 281-297.
- Authorized users may prefer the official JSTOR version of this paper.
Paul R. Hensel and Paul F. Diehl (1994). "Testing Empirical Propositions about Shatterbelts." Political Geography 13,1 (January): 33-51.
Book Chapters
Paul R. Hensel (2012). “Territory: Geography, Contentious Issues, and World Politics.” In John A. Vasquez, ed., What Do We Know about War?, 2nd edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming
Paul R. Hensel (2012). "Review of Available Data Sets." In Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, Paul F. Diehl, and James D. Morrow, eds., A Guide to the Scientific Study of International Processes. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming.
Sara McLaughlin Mitchell and Paul R. Hensel (2010). "Issues and Conflict." In Tor Georg Jakobsen ed., War: An Introduction to Theories and Research on Collective Violence. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, pp. 275-295.
Paul R. Hensel (2010). "Review of Available Data Sets." In Robert A. Denemark, ed., The International Studies Encyclopedia. Blackwell Publishing.
Paul R. Hensel (2001). "Evolution in Domestic Politics and the Development of Rivalry: The Bolivia-Paraguay Case." In William R. Thompson, ed., Evolutionary World Politics. New York: Routledge, pp. 176-217.
Paul R. Hensel (2000). "Territory: Theory and Evidence on Geography and Conflict." In John A. Vasquez, ed., What Do We Know about War?. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 57-84.
Paul R. Hensel (1999). "The Evolution of the Franco-German Rivalry." In William R. Thompson, ed., Great Power Rivalries. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, pp. 86-121.
Paul R. Hensel (1999). "Charting a Course to Conflict: Territorial Issues and Interstate Conflict, 1816-1992." In Paul F. Diehl, ed., A Road Map to War: Territorial Dimensions of International Conflict. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, pp.115-146.
Paul R. Hensel (1998). "Interstate Rivalry and the Study of Militarized Conflict." In Frank P. Harvey and Ben D. Mor, eds., Conflict in World Politics: Advances in the Study of Crisis, War and Peace. New York: St. Martin's Press, pp. 162-204.
Dissertation
The Evolution of Interstate Rivalry. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996.
- Co-recipient of the Walter Isard Award for the Best Dissertation in Peace Science, 1994-1996.
Work in Progress
These papers may be downloaded in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.
Manuscript Submissions
Stephen C. Nemeth, Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, Elizabeth A. Nyman, and Paul R. Hensel, "Ruling the Sea: Institutionalization and Privatization of the Global Ocean Commons." Paper presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago.
- Rejected by World Politics, spring 2009. Currently under revision for submission elsewhere.
Current Projects and Working Papers
Paul R. Hensel and Marit Brochmann, "Armed Conflict over International Rivers: The Onset and Militarization of River Claims." Paper presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, and the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston.
- Once the river claims data set is complete for the entire world we plan to submit this paper to a major scholarly journal, as this will be the most complete and most systematic analysis of the origins of conflict (both diplomatic and military) specifically over international rivers. We are also working on several other papers related to river claims, which will ultimately be combined into a book on the topic:
- Paul R. Hensel, Marit Brochmann, and Jaroslav Tir, "International River Treaty Effectiveness." Presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Diego. An earlier version ("The Creation and Impact of Treaties over International Rivers.") was presented at the 2008 World International Studies Congress, Ljubljana, Slovenia. This is an effort to expand our work on the peaceful management of river claims (e.g. from Brochmann/Hensel's 2009 International Negotiation and 2011 International Studies Quarterly articles as well as some of Tir's work) by examining the origins of river treaties as well as their impact.
Paul R. Hensel, Michael E. Allison, and John Tures, "Credible Commitments and Negotiations over Territory." Working paper, Florida State University.
- This is the first paper in a series of projects examining domestic influences on the management of contentious issues; this paper focuses on how specific types of domestic constraints affect the likelihood that states will attempt to negotiate over their issues, the likelihood that these negotiations will produce agreements, and the likelihood that any agreements reached will be carried out. Future papers will use the same general theoretical model to account for the use and effectiveness of specific types of third parties in helping to manage or settle territorial issues, as well as the impact of issue management or settlement on leader survival in office. This first paper will be submitted to a major journal in the 2007-2008 academic year, and draws from portions of the following previous papers:
- Michael E. Allison and Paul R. Hensel, "Who Cares?: Domestic Politics and the Management of Territorial Claims." Presented at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association. (This conference paper was the beginning of this general research project, although we are now using a much more generalizable theoretical model that offers many other implications; the leader survival analyses from this paper will ultimately be part of a separate followup paper.)
- Paul R. Hensel, "Domestic Politics and Interstate Rivalry: An Empirical Analysis." Presented at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta. (This goes into more detail about some of the domestic constraints that we are examining in this project, although we are now applying them to issue management rather than to rivalry as in this earlier conference paper.)
Paul R. Hensel, "The Evolution of Territorial Claims and Armed Conflict between Neighbors." Paper presented at the 2011 Annual General Meeting of the European Political Science Association, Dublin, Ireland. Earlier versions were presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada; and the 2006 Lineae Terrarum International Borders Conference, El Paso, TX.
- This paper is currently being revised for submission.
Finally, several former FSU grad students and I are working on a project on colonial legacies and territorial claims, which pays special attention to the legal doctrine of Uti Possidetis Juris. This project has led to a research grant from the Northeast Asian History Foundation and will ultimately produce a book. Work on this project is currently underway, and besides the book, seems likely to lead to at least three different papers (one on colonial legacies and territorial conflict between neighbors, one on colonial legacies and territorial conflict with the former colonizer, and one on Uti Possidetis more specifically):
- Paul R. Hensel, Michael Allison, and Ahmed Khanani, "Colonial Legacies and Territorial Claims." Latest (very preliminary) version of a book manuscript produced under a 2008 research grant from the Northeast Asian History Foundation (in Seoul, South Korea). This manuscript will be heavily revised and extended.
- Paul R. Hensel, Michael Allison, and Ahmed Khanani, "Territorial Integrity Treaties, Uti Possidetis, and Armed Conflict over Territory." [Note that the portions of this paper dealing with territorial integrity treaties rather than Uti Possidetis or colonial legacies were published in CMPS in 2009; these remaining portions are being redone as a separate paper.]
Other Conference Papers
Elizabeth A. Nyman and Paul R. Hensel, "Implications of Issue Salience for Territorial, Maritime, and River Claims." Paper presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston.
Paul R. Hensel, "Starting on the Wrong Foot: Political Independence and Territorial Claims." Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., and the 2006 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Diego.
Paul R. Hensel, "Power Politics and Contentious Issues: Realism, Issue Salience, and Conflict Management." Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Honolulu.
Shawn E. Rowan and Paul R. Hensel, "Declining Benefits of Conquest? Economic Development and Territorial Claims in the Americas and Europe." Paper presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Peace Science Society (International), Houston, TX.
Paul R. Hensel, "Militarized Management of Territorial Claims in the Americas, 1816-2001." Paper presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the CEEISA and International Studies Association, Budapest, Hungary. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Portland.
Thomas E. Sowers II and Paul R. Hensel, "Political Shocks, Evolution, and the Origins of Interstate Rivalry." Presented at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association. Earlier versions of what became this paper were presented at the 1998 Vienna conference and the 1997 Peace Science conference.
Paul R. Hensel, "'Hot Hands' and Cold Wars: A Reassessment of the Stochastic Model of Rivalry." Presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco.
Paul R. Hensel, "Reliability and Validity Issues in the Issue Correlates of War (ICOW) Project." Paper presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Minneapolis.
Paul R. Hensel and Paul F. Diehl, "Punctuated Equilibrium or Evolution? A Comparative Test of Two Models of Rivalry Development." Paper presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Peace Science Society (International), New Brunswick, NJ.
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