Robert Paul Musgrave

University of Massachusetts-Amherst Phone: +1 (413) 545-6176

Department of Political Science Email: [email protected]
Thompson Hall 504 Web: http://www.paulmusgrave.info
200 Hicks Way Skype: rpmusgrave3
Amherst MA 01003 Twitter: @profmusgrave

Education
Ph.D., Government, Georgetown University, December 2014
Dissertation topic: “Divided States: How Bargaining at Home Affects U.S. Foreign Policy”
Adviser: Professor Andrew Bennett
M.A., Politics, University College Dublin, 2005

B.A., Political Science and History, Indiana University, 2004

Professional Employment
Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts (Amherst, Mass.), Department of Political Science and
Legal Studies, Fall 2015–present.
Visiting Instructor/Visiting Assistant Professor, Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pa.), Department of Polit-
ical Science and International Studies, Fall 2014–Spring 2015.

Research
Book Manuscript (In Preparation)
Divided States: The Making of Informal Institutions and U.S. Foreign Policy

Articles (Peer-Reviewed)
“Democracy and Collective Identity in the European Union and the United States." With Kathleen
McNamara. Forthcoming at Journal of Common Market Studies.
“The Missing Links: Forging International Issue Linkages in the Presidential Interest." 2019. Presidential
Studies Quarterly 49(3): 581-608.
“Asymmetry, Hierarchy, and the Ecclesiastes Trap." 2019. International Studies Review 21(2):284-300.
“International Hegemony Meets Domestic Politics: Why Liberals Can Be Pessimists." 2019. Security
Studies 28(3): 451-478.

“Defending Hierarchy from the Moon to the Indian Ocean: Symbolic Capital and Political Dominance
in Early Modern China and the Cold War." With Daniel Nexon. 2018. International Organization 72(3):
591-626. (Received Honorable Mention for the Alexander L. George Article Award from the Qualitative
and Multi-Method Research Section of the American Political Science Association, 2019.)
“Beyond Anarchy: Logics of Political Organization, Hierarchy, and International Structure." With
Daniel Nexon and Meghan McConaughey. 2018. International Theory 10(2): 181-218.
“Synthetic Experiences: How Popular Culture Matters for Images of International Relations." With
J. Furman Daniel. 2017. International Studies Quarterly 61(3): 503-516.
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“The Global Transformation: More than Meets the Eye." With Daniel Nexon. 2016. International Theory
8(3):436-447.
“Oil, Autocratic Survival, and the Gendered Resource Curse: When Inefficient Policy is Politically
Expedient.” With Yu-Ming Liou. 2016. International Studies Quarterly 60(3): 440-456.
“Fair And Balanced? Experimental Evidence on Bias in Grading.” With Mark Carl Rom. 2015. Ameri-
can Politics Research 43(3): 536–554.
“Refining the Oil Curse: Country-Level Evidence from Exogenous Variations in Resource Income.”
With Yu-Ming Liou. 2014. Comparative Political Studies 47(11): 1558–83. (Received Frederick Hartmann
Award for Best Graduate Student Paper, ISA-Northeast, 2012.)
“Political Bias in Grading: Identifying Problems, Proposing Solutions.” With Mark Carl Rom. 2014.
Journal of Political Science Education 10(2): 136–54.
“The Making of the Pundit, 2010: When Strong Ties Trump Weak Ones.” 2012. PS: Political Science and
Politics 45(2): 265–9.
“‘A Primitive Method of Enforcing the Law’: Vigilantism as a Response to Bank Crimes in Indiana,
1925–1933." 2006. Indiana Magazine of History 102(3): 187–219.

Chapters
“States of Empire: Liberal Ordering and Imperial Relations.” 2013. With Daniel Nexon. In Tim Dunne
and Trine Flockhart (Eds.), Liberal World Orders (Oxford UP/British Academies).
“American Liberalism and the Imperial Temptation.” 2013. With Daniel Nexon. In Noel Parker (Ed.),
Empire and International Order (Ashgate).
“The Highs and Lows of Support for Marijuana Legalization Among White Americans." 2013. With
Clyde Wilcox. In Katherine Tate, James Lance Taylor, and Mark Q. Sawyer (Eds.), Something’s in the Air:
Race, Crime, and the Legalization of Marijuana (Routledge).

Working Papers
“Transitions in World Order” (Revise & Resubmit)
“Bringing The State Police Back In: Explaining the Diffusion of Statewide Policing Agencies, 1905–41”
(under review)
“The Myth of the Tripwire Effect: Forward Military Deployments and U.S. Public Support for War"
(with Steven Ward; under review)
“Federation of Liberty: International Society and Hierarchy Among United States”

Articles (Non-Peer-Reviewed)
“Teaching Counterfactuals From Hell.” With Anjali Kaushlesh Dayal. 2018. Peace Review. 30: 23-31.
“The Grim Fantasia of a Civilizational War.” Cato Unbound, (Online), 8 February 2017.
“The Imitation Game: Why Don’t Rising Powers Innovate Their Militaries More?” With Yu-Ming Liou
and J. Furman Daniel. 2015. The Washington Quarterly 38(3): 157–174.
“Singularity or Aberration? A Response to Buzan and Lawson.” With Daniel Nexon. 2013. International
Studies Quarterly 57(3): 637–9.
“Coming Attractions: An in-class group exercise for teaching theoretical concepts,” The Political Science
Educator, Spring 2011.
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Book Reviews
Review of The Price of Prestige: Conspicuous Consumption in International Relations by Lilach Gilady
(University of Chicago Press) in Political Science Quarterly 134(1): 176–78.
Review of The Institutions Curse: Natural Resources, Politics, and Development by Victor Menaldo (Cam-
bridge University Press, 2016) in Perspectives on Politics 16(2): 553-555.
Review of The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline by Jonathan Tepperman (Tim
Duggan, 2016) in Governance 31(1): 192-193.
Review of Diplomacy and the Making of World Politics edited by Ole Jacob Sending, Vincent Pouliot, and
Iver B. Neumann (Cambridge University Press, 2015) in International Studies Review 19(2): 318-320.
Review of Petro-Aggression by Jeff Colgan (Cambridge University Press, 2015) in Energy Research &
Social Science 6: 167-168.
Review of The Rise of Global Powers: International Politics in the Era of the World Wars by Anthony
D’Agostino in Political Science Quarterly 127(4): 730-731.

Public Commentary
"American Imperialists Have Always Dreamed of Greenland." 2019. Foreign Policy. (Online), 16 August.
"Plato and Proust Can’t Solve Silicon Valley’s Problems." 2019. The Washington Post. Online and print,
15 August 2019.

"America the Mediocre." 2019. Foreign Policy. (Online.) 15 August.

“John Bolton is warning of a ‘Clash of Civilizations’ with China. Here are the five things you need to
know.” 2019. The Monkey Cage on The Washington Post. (Online), 18 July.
“Trump Bends Over to Kiss the Blarney State." 2019. Foreign Policy (Online), 2 June.

“IR Theory and ‘Game of Thrones’ are Both Fantasies." 2019. Foreign Policy (Online), 23 May.
“Universities Aren’t Ready for Trade War Casualties." 2019. Foreign Policy (Online), 19 May.
“The Slip that Revealed the Real Trump Doctrine." 2019. Foreign Policy (Online), 2 May.

“Why were liberals so desperate to believe that Mueller would save democracy?" The Washington Post.
Online and print, 28 March 2019.
“Trump’s birthright citizenship proposal isn’t just an electoral stunt.” With Philip Rocco. The Washing-
ton Post. (Online), 31 October 2018.
“Conspiracy theories are for losers. QAnon is no exception.” The Washington Post. (Online), 2 August
2018.
“How do we know if U.S. troops in South Korea are a viable tripwire? A new survey suggests it’s not
that simple." With Steve Ward. The Monkey Cage on The Washington Post. (Online), 8 June 2018.
“Theorizing about the Trump administration has become our national pastime.” The Washington Post.
(Online), 15 May 2018.
“Seven Reasons We Use Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI).” With Sebastian Karcher. The Duck
of Minerva. (Online), 15 May 2018.
“What ‘The West Wing‘ Tells Us About the West Wing”. With J. Furman Daniel. The Monkey Cage on
The Washington Post. (Online), 22 January 2018.
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“There Is No Secret Master Plan. Trump is the WYSIWYG President." The Washington Post, online and
in print, 3 January 2018.
“Zheng He’s Voyages and the Symbolism Behind Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative." With Daniel
Nexon. The Diplomat, (Online), 22 December 2017.

“Sorry, an Oil Embargo Won’t Lead to North Korea’s Capitulation.” With Yu-Ming Liou. The Diplomat,
(Online), 9 September 2017.
“President Trump Should Stop Tweeting. Now." The Washington Post, (Online), 8 June 2017.
“Democracy Requires Trust. But Trump is Making Us All into Conspiracy Theorists.” The Washington
Post (Online), 7 March 2017.

“Donald Trump is Normalizing Paranoia and Conspiracy Thinking in U.S. Politics." The Washington
Post (Online), 12 January 2017.
“If You’re Even Asking if Russia Hacked the Election, Russia Got What it Wanted.” The Washington
Post (Online), 28 November 2016.

“Why Would Russia Interfere in the U.S. Election? Because It Sometimes Works." The Washington Post
online and in print, 26 July 2016.
“Here’s Why Saudi Arabia Is Loosening Its Restrictions on Women.” With Yu-Ming Liou. The Monkey
Cage on The Washington Post. (Online), 27 June 2016.

“The First Nixon Library." Prologue 41.2 (Summer 2009).

“In Praise of Patronage,” Slate, 2 December 2008.

Presentations
Conference Presentations

ISA 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017 APSA 2010, 2011, 2014–18

SPSA 2013 MPSA 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019
ISA-Northeast 2012, 2016 ISSS-ISAC 2015

Invited Talks and Lectures

“The Foreign Policy of the ‘Divided‘ States of America,” King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic
Studies, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1 April 2019.
“Federation of Liberty," Georgetown University International Theory And Relations Seminar (GUI-
TARS), 4 February 2019

“Memes, Bots, and Tweets: International Relations In the Social Media Age”, Texas Tech University, 16
October 2018
“Myths of The Tripwire Effect", Texas Tech University, 16 October 2018
“Federation of Liberty”, Boston University, 28 September 2018

“The End of an Elite Consensus? Domestic Political Polarization and US Foreign Policy”, Harriman
Institute, Columbia University, 27 April 2018
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“The Politics of the End of the World,” Indiana Political Science Association annual meeting (keynote),
16 March 2018
“Polarization and U.S. Foreign Policy", Carleton University (Ottawa), April 2017

Teaching Experience
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
POLSCI 394Z, Russian Foreign Policy (online), Summer 2019
POLSCI 255, American Foreign Policy, Spring 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019
POLSCI 390, The Politics of the End of the World, Fall 2018

POLSCI 499C/D, Energy & Global Politics (yearlong senior honors thesis seminar), AY 2015-16 and AY
2016-17
HONS K391, The Politics of the End of the World (1-credit), Fall 2016
HONS K391, Empire and Politics (1-credit), Fall 2017

Dickinson College
Introduction to International Relations, Fall 2014 and Spring 2015

U.S. Foreign Policy, Spring 2015

History and International Relations, Spring 2015
Energy & Global Politics, Fall 2014

Georgetown University
Fundamentals of Foreign Policy, Summers 2013, 2014 (two sections), and 2015
Introduction to International Relations, Summers 2011, 2012, and 2013

Scope & Methods of Political Science (Quantitative Methods for Honors Students), Spring 2013
Interstellar Relations: Political Science and Science Fiction, Summer 2012

Service
Department Service
International Relations Field Clerk, AY2017-18, Fall 2018
Honors Program Director, AY 2016-17, AY 2017-18, AY 2018-19
Faculty Advisor to UMass chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honors society, AY
2016-17, AY 2017-18, AY 2018-19. (Received Best Chapter Award, enrollment between 15,000 and 25,000
students, from the national office, 2019.)
Undergraduate Studies Committee, AY 2015-16, AY 2016-17, AY 2017-18
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Manuscript Reviewer

American Political Science Review American Journal of Political Science International Organization
International Studies Quarterly European Journal of International Relations Journal of Politics
Security Studies Comparative Political Studies Journal of Conflict Resolution
Journal of Global Security Studies Political Studies Journal of International Development
American Politics Review Research & Politics SAGE Open
PS: Political Science and Politics Political Research Quarterly International Political Sociology

Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship, 2019–20, Washington, D.C.
William A. Steiger Fund for Legislative Studies Visiting Scholar, American Political Science Association,
September & October 2019

Lilly Teaching Fellowship, UMass Amherst, 2017–18

Institute for Teaching Excellence & Faculty Development Flex Grant, UMass Amherst, 2015, 2016, 2017,
2018
Department Best Self-Taught Course Teaching Award (awarded jointly with Jennifer R. Dresden for
developing Fundamentals of Foreign Policy), Georgetown Government Department, 2014

Research Fellow, Georgetown School of Foreign Service in Qatar, 2013–14

Jill Hopper Memorial Fellowship, Georgetown Government Department, 2012–2013
Best Graduate Paper Award, Georgetown Government Department, 2012

Dissertation Summer Research Grant, Georgetown Government Department, 2011 and 2012
Theodore C. Sorensen Research Fellowship, Kennedy Presidential Library, 2011
Korea Research Grant, Scowcroft Institute on International Affairs, 2011
Archival Research Grant, Ford Presidential Library, 2011

Clogg Fellowship, Inter-University Consortium on Social and Political Research, 2010

Other Professional Experience

Special Assistant to the Director, Richard Nixon Presidential Library, October 2006–November 2009
Oversaw nationally competitive internship programs, managed special projects, and coordinated staff
activities at a nonpartisan federal institution run by the National Archives and Records Administration.

Assistant Editor, Foreign Affairs, August 2005–August 2006

Extensively edited articles for a journal of international relations and foreign policy with more than
100,000 subscribers.