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Staff Members
Professor Dan Zirker
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BA, MA University of Montana, PhD University of Alberta |
| Email: |
dzirker@waikato.ac.nz |
| Location: |
K2.26 |
| Contact: |
+64 7 838 4524 |
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Research Interests:
Professor Daniel Zirker gained his BA and MA from the University of Montana, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Alberta.
Previously, he served as the Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor at Montana State University-Billings, and before that taught political science at the University of Idaho and Minnesota State University.
He was formerly the chair/president of the Research Committee on Armed Forces and Society of the International Political Science Association. A former U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Northeast Brazil, he was a Fulbright senior lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam.
He has published in academic journals on democratization, economic development and civil-military relations in Brazil as well as in Africa and Eastern Europe. He has co-edited two books (with Constantine Danopoulos) applying the lessons of the recent history of Latin America and Southern Europe to civil-military relations in Eastern Europe, the most recent of which is The Military and Society in the Former Eastern Bloc (Westview, 1999).
Professor Zirker teaches POLS329 The US and the World.
Personal Website
Research Publications:
You may like to view publications from 1997 onwards for Professor Dan Zirker
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