The University of Texas at Austin

Alan J. Kuperman, came to the LBJ School in 2005 as an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs. Prior to joining the LBJ School faculty, Kuperman was Resident Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Bologna, Italy.He has a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.A. in international relations and international economics from SAIS. He has published articles and book chapters on ethnic conflict, U.S. military intervention and nuclear proliferation. He is also the author of The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda and co-editor of Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion, and Civil War.

In addition to his academic experience, Kuperman has been a Fellow in the U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of Caribbean Affairs, Legislative Director for Congressman Charles Schumer of New York, Legislative Assistant for U.S. House Speaker Thomas Foley, Chief of Staff for Congressman James Scheuer, and Senior Policy Analyst for the nongovernmental Nuclear Control Institute.

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Education

Ph.D. in political science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.A. in international relations and international economics, School of Advanced International Studies

Current Positions

Fellow, Robert Strauss Center for International Law and Security (RSC); Director, RSC International Security Film Series: Co-director, RSC International Security Speakers Series; Coordinator, RSC Brumley Chair.

Previous Positions

Resident assistant professor of international relations, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies; fellow, U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of Caribbean Affairs; legislative director; Congressman Charles Schumer; legislative assistant, U.S. House Speaker Thomas Foley; Chief of Staff, Congressman James Scheuer; senior policy analyst, Nuclear Control Institute

Books Authored

The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press,
2001), www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0815700857/kuperman-20.

Books Edited

Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion and Civil War (New York: Routledge, 2006),
co-edited with Timothy W. Crawford, www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415379466/kuperman-20.

Chapters in Books

“Humanitarian Intervention” in Robert J. Art and Robert Jervis, eds., International Politics: Enduring Concepts
and Contemporary Issues, 10th Edition (Longman, 2010), forthcoming.

“Humanitarian Intervention,” in Michael Goodhart, ed., Human Rights: Politics and Practice (Oxford University
Press, 2009), pp. 334-353.

“Suicidal Rebellions and the Moral Hazard of Humanitarian Intervention,” in Adam Jones, ed., Prevention,
Intervention, and Accountability, vol. 4 in Adam Jones, ed., Genocide, 4 vols. (London: Sage Publications, 2008).

“A Small Intervention: Lessons from Liberia 2003,” in Jim Wirtz and Jeff Larsen, eds., Naval Peacekeeping and
Humanitarian Operations: Stability from the Sea (Abingdon: Routledge, 2009), pp. 153-169.

“Ripeness Revisited: The Perils of Muscular Mediation,” in Terrence Lyons and Gilbert Khadiagala, eds., Conflict
Management and Africa: Negotiation, Mediation, and Politics (Abingdon: Routledge, 2008), pp. 9-21.

“Is Partition Really the Only Hope? Reconciling Contradictory Findings About Ethnic Civil Wars,” in Roy
Licklider and Mia Bloom, eds., Living Together After Ethnic Killing: Exploring the Chaim Kaufmann Argument
(New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 174-209.

“Power-Sharing or Partition? History’s Lessons for Keeping the Peace in Bosnia,” in Michael Innes, ed., Bosnian
Security After Dayton: New Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. 23-50.

“Suicidal Rebellions and the Moral Hazard of Humanitarian Intervention,” in Timothy W. Crawford and Alan J.
Kuperman, eds., Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion and Civil War (New York:
Routledge, 2006), pp. 1-25.

“Introduction: Debating the Hazards of Intervention,” in Timothy W. Crawford and Alan J. Kuperman, eds.,
Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion and Civil War (New York: Routledge, 2006),
co-authored with Timothy W. Crawford, pp. vii-xi.

“How Media Missed Rwandan Genocide,” in Allan Thompson, ed., The Media and the Rwanda Genocide
(London: Pluto Press, 2006), pp. 256-60.

“Humanitarian Hazard: Revisiting Doctrines of Intervention,” in George Shambaugh and Andrew Bennett, eds.,
Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in American Foreign Policy, Third Edition (New York:
McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2005), pp. 342-48. (Also in Fourth and Fifth Edition.)

“Provoking Genocide: A Revised History of the Rwandan Patriotic Front,” in Colin Tatz, et al., ed., Genocide
Perspectives, Volume III (Blackheath, Australia: Brandl and Schlesinger, 2006), pp. 173-195.

“Transnational Causes of Genocide: Or How the West Inadvertently Exacerbates Ethnic Conflict,” in Raju G. C.
Thomas, ed., Yugoslavia Unraveled: Sovereignty, Self-Determination, Intervention (Lanham, MD: Lexington
Books, 2003), pp. 55-85.

“Civilian Highly Enriched Uranium and the Fissile Material Convention,” in Paul L. Leventhal, ed., Nuclear
Power & the Spread of Nuclear Weapons (Dulles, VA: Brassey’s Inc., 2002), pp. 249-260.

“Rwanda in Retrospect,” in James F. Hoge, Jr. and Gideon Rose, eds., American Foreign Policy: Cases and
Choices (New York: Foreign Affairs Books, 2003), pp. 76-100.

"The Stinger Missile and U.S. Intervention in Afghanistan," in Demetrios James Caraley, ed., The New American
Interventionism: Successes and Failures (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999), pp. 159-203.

Articles in Refereed Journals

“Darfur: Strategic Victimhood Strikes Again?” Genocide Studies and Prevention 4,3 (December 2009), pp. 281–
303.

“Wishful Thinking Will Not Stop Genocide: Suggestions for a More Realistic Strategy,” Genocide Studies and
Prevention 4,2 (August 2009), pp. 191–199.

“Rethinking the Responsibility to Protect,” Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, 10,1
(Winter/Spring 2009), pp. 33-43.

“Mitigating the Moral Hazard of Humanitarian Intervention: Lessons from Economics,” Global Governance 14,2
(April-June 2008), pp. 219-240.

“The Moral Hazard of Humanitarian Intervention: Lessons from the Balkans,” International Studies Quarterly
52,1 (March 2008), pp. 49-80, www.ukrainianstudies.uottawa.ca/pdf/Kuperman%202008.pdf.

“Bomb-Grade Bazaar,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 62, No. 2 (March/April 2006), cover story, pp. 44-
50.

“Suicidal Rebellions and the Moral Hazard of Humanitarian Intervention,” Ethnopolitics, Vol. 4, No. 2 (June
2005), pp. 149-73.

“Introduction: Debating the Hazards of Intervention,” Ethnopolitics, Vol. 4, No. 2 (June 2005), pp. 143–47, coauthored with Timothy W. Crawford.

“Is Partition Really the Only Hope? Reconciling Contradictory Findings About Ethnic Civil Wars,” Security
Studies Vol. 13, No. 4 (Summer 2004), pp. 314 - 49.


“Provoking Genocide: A Revised History of the Rwandan Patriotic Front,” Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 6,
No. 1 (March 2004), pp. 61-84.

“Rwanda in Retrospect,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 79, No. 1 (January/February 2000), pp. 94-118.

"The Stinger Missile and U.S. Intervention in Afghanistan," Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 114, No. 2 (Summer
1999), pp. 219-63.

"The Other Lesson of Rwanda: Mediators Sometimes Do More Damage Than Good," SAIS Review, Vol. XVI, No.
1 (Winter-Spring 1996), pp. 221-240.

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