Chief Historian, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Erin Mahan is chief historian of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. She previously served as associate research fellow at Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. She is also an adjunct research historian for the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. From 2004-2008, she was chief of the then Division of...
George R. and Myra T. Cooley Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, and Professor of Geography, Colgate University
My research focuses on the formal aspects of conflict that have been variously described as 'dynamics of contention,' 'strategic interaction,' and 'expression games' by combatants and defense intellectuals alike. Focusing on the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, my work concentrates more specifically upon the history of a recursive politics of blame in the Middle East. I am particularly i...
My research focuses on the formal aspects of conflict that have been variously described as 'dynamics of contention,' 'strategic interaction,' and 'expression games' by combatants and defense intellectuals alike. Focusing on the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, my work concentrates more specifically upon the history of a recursive politics of blame in the Middle East. I am particularly i...