Welcome to my website. I am a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at Sewanee: The University of the South. I have a Ph.D. in Political Science from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville where I was also a Research Fellow at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, an M.A. in International Studies from East Carolina University, and a B.A in Political Science from The Citadel. My research and teaching interests are international relations, conflict processes, security studies, interstate conflict, maritime security, and terrorism.
My current project, "Maritime Law Enforcement in the Indo-Pacific: Building Capacity to Confront Militia Groups and Maritime Crime" is funded by a Minerva Research Initiative grant sponsored by the Office of Naval Research at the Department of Defense. The project aims to investigate the relationship between inter-state rivalry and resource competition, local institutional capacity and maritime law enforcement, and the causes of maritime piracy and crime in the Indo-Pacific.
In addition maritime security, my research investigates, 1) how states use external support to non-state actors to engage in conflict, 2) the conditions that lead states to engage in armed conflict over their territorial, maritime, and other foreign policy issues, and 3) how minority discrimination interacts with political and economic opportunities to drive violence among non-state actors. My work is published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Interactions, Marine Policy, International Area Studies Review, Political Geography, and Conflict Management and Peace Science.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions.
Aaron Gold
My current project, "Maritime Law Enforcement in the Indo-Pacific: Building Capacity to Confront Militia Groups and Maritime Crime" is funded by a Minerva Research Initiative grant sponsored by the Office of Naval Research at the Department of Defense. The project aims to investigate the relationship between inter-state rivalry and resource competition, local institutional capacity and maritime law enforcement, and the causes of maritime piracy and crime in the Indo-Pacific.
In addition maritime security, my research investigates, 1) how states use external support to non-state actors to engage in conflict, 2) the conditions that lead states to engage in armed conflict over their territorial, maritime, and other foreign policy issues, and 3) how minority discrimination interacts with political and economic opportunities to drive violence among non-state actors. My work is published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Interactions, Marine Policy, International Area Studies Review, Political Geography, and Conflict Management and Peace Science.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions.
Aaron Gold