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Areas of Specialization: International Relations, Civil Conflict, International Conflict, Political Economy

Richard W. Frank is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of New Orleans. Dr. Frank’s research interests center on the transnational aspects of political and economic interactions and how these interactions can end in conflict. Other current interests include civil war intervention, ethnic politics, and comparative constitutional structures.

His dissertation, “A Million Little Gestures: Globalized Private Economic Flows, Social Welfare Provisions, and Civil War” focuses on how economic and political globalization affects the social contract between a government and its citizens. It explores how a state’s failure to provide adequate social welfare can lead to civil conflict and how this can be offset by external economic aid. He argues that individual-level external monetary flows like migrant remittances, microfinance, and private aid can buy off the grievances that result from state failure to uphold the social contract.

Dr. Frank received his PhD. from Binghamton University in 2009. His work has appeared in Journal of Peace Research and Conflict Management and Peace Science. He teaches courses on international conflict, the political economy of civil war, poverty, development, and conflict, and the politics of developing areas.

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