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MagnifyJessica L. Weeks, MA
CISAC Zukerman Fellow and Predoctoral Fellow (former)CISAC
Encina Hall
Stanford, CA 94305-6165
Research Interests
international security; foreign policy; non-democratic regimes;
military interventions; crisis behavior
Jessica Weeks is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University, the 2007-2008 Zukerman Fellow and a pre-doctoral fellow at CISAC, and the Teaching Assistant for the CISAC Honors Program. Her dissertation, "Leaders, Accountability, and Foreign Policy in Non-Democracies" studies how different levels of domestic accountability affect leaders' decisions about international conflict. Additional research investigates the effectiveness of military interventions, and the escalation and resolution of international military crises.
Jessica graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Political Science from The Ohio State University in 2001, and received an MA in International History and Politics from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.
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