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Tufts University
Dept. of Political Science
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Medford, MA 02155

Office: 617.627.3469
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Expertise
International Relations, Foreign Policy, Western Europe, Political Behavior

Education
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1981

Biography
Richard Eichenberg has held grants and fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, and the Social Science Research Council. Professor Eichenberg's research focuses on public opinion, foreign policy, European integration, and gender politics. His articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, International Organization, International Security, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Mershon International Studies Review, Policy Sciences, Public Opinion Quarterly, and World Politics.

Professor Eichenberg is Nonresident Senior Fellow on Public Opinion and Foreign Policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. From 2004 to 2014, he served as an academic advisor for Transatlantic Trends, the German Marshall Fund's annual survey of American and European public opinion on security issues.

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Courses
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INTR 91: Colloquium on International Research
PS 61: International Relations
PS 188-03: Gender Issues in World Politics
PS 90D: Sophomore Seminar: Defense in Democracies
PS 125: Building the European Union
PS 181: Public Opinion and Foreign Policy
PS 198: Seminar: Senior Honors Thesis

Publications
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• Gender, War, and World Order: A Study of Public Opinion, Cornell University Press (forthcoming, 2019). [Contents]
• "Gender Difference in Attitudes towards Global Issues," Jill Steans and Daniela Tape, editors, Handbook of Gender in World Politics, Edward Elgar Publishers, July 2016 [with Blair M. Read].
• "Public Opinion on Foreign Policy Issues," Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, London: Oxford University Press, April 2016.
• "Gender Difference in American Public Opinion on the Use of Military Force: Evidence from Before and after the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, 1980-2013," International Studies Quarterly, 60/1 (2016): 138-148.
• "The Acceptability of War and Support for Defense Spending: Evidence from Fourteen Democracies, 2004-2013," Journal of Conflict Resolution, September 2015 [with Richard J. Stoll].
• "Gender Difference or Parallel Publics? The Dynamics of Defense Spending Opinions in the United States, 1965-2007" (with Richard J. Stoll), Journal of Conflict Resolution, Volume 56 Issue 2 (April 2012), pp. 331 - 348.
• "Public Opinion and Foreign Policy in the Obama Era," Politique Americaine, Nr 14, Fall 2009.
• "Citizen Opinion on Foreign Policy and World Politics," in: The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior, editors Russell J. Dalton and Hans-Dieter Klingemann, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• "Post-Maastricht Blues: The Welfare State and the Transformation of Public Opinion on European Integration, 1973-2002" (with Russell Dalton), Acta Politica, 42/2-3 (July 2007), 128-152.
• "War President: The Approval Ratings of President George W. Bush" (with Richard J. Stoll), Journal of Conflict Resolution, December 2006 .
• "Victory Has Many Friends: The American Public and the Use of Military Force, 1981-2005", International Security, 35/1, (Summer 2005).
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• The Political Fortunes of War: Iraq and the Domestic Standing of President George W. Bush (with Richard J. Stoll), London: The Foreign Policy Centre, July 2004.
• "Having It Both Ways: European Defense Integration and the Commitment to NATO", Public Opinion Quarterly (Winter 2003), 627-659.
• "Gender Differences in Attitudes Toward the Use of Force by the United States, 1990-2003" International Security, 28/1 (Summer 2003), 110-141.
• "Representing Defense: Democratic Control of the Defense Budget in the United States and Western Europe" (with Richard J. Stoll), The Journal of Conflict Resolution, 47/4 (August 2003), 399-422.
• Public Opinion and National Security in Western Europe (Cornell, 1989)
• Defense and Public Opinion (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983)

Working Papers

• "Gender Difference in Support for the Use of Military Force in Cross-National Perspective," Paper presented to a workshop on "Public Opinion, Foreign Policy and the Use of Force in Turbulent Times," European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions, University of Nottingham, April 25-30, 2017.
• Women's Rights in US Foreign Policy:
  • Elizabeth Robinson and Anna Weissman, A Selected List of Congressional Hearings and Testimony on Women's Rights in US Foreign Policy, 1993-2016, Tufts University, October 12, 2016.
  • Richard C. Eichenberg and others, Policy Activity in the Office of Global Women's Issues, US Department of State 1995-2015, Tufts University, June 27, 2016.
  • Richard . Eichenberg and Elizabeth V. Robinson, Codebook: Policy Activity in the Office of Global Women's Issues, US Department of State, 1995-2015, Tufts University, March 29, 2016.
• "Gender Difference and the Liberal-Realist Divide: Citizen Opinions of Power, Institutions, and War in Global Comparison," Presented to the Convention of the International Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2016.
• "When Gender (Sometimes) Trumps Party: Citizen Attitudes Toward Torture in the War Against Terror", Paper presented to the Convention of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2010 (revised, July, 2014).
• "Women, War, and World Order: Gender Difference in Security Attitudes in Europe and the United States, 2002-2011" Paper delivered to the Convention of the International Studies Association, San Diego California, April 2012.
• "Gender Differences in Political and Civic Engagement among Young People," American Political Science Association, September 2009 [with Kent Portney and Richard Niemi].
• "Foreign Policy in the Electoral and Governing Coalitions of President Barack Obama," Presented to the Shambaugh Conference on Understanding the 2008 Presidential Election, March 5-7, 2009, Department of Political Science, University of Iowa.
• "Gender Differences in Support for the Use of Military Force in Cross-National Perspective: The War System, Modernization, and the Universal Logics of Military Action" Convention of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2007.
• "Global Public Opinion on the Use of Military Force from the First Gulf War to the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq" International Studies Association, March 2006.
• Gender, National Security, and the Election of 2004:
  • September 30, 2004 (original paper)
  • October 13, 2004 (update in PDF)
  • October 26, 2004 (update in PDF)
  • October 31, 2004 (update in PDF)
• "The Gender Gap and National Security in the United States: Dynamics and Correlates of Public Opinion on Defense Spending and the Use of Military Force" Convention of the International Studies Association, March 2002.

Datasets

• "Gender Difference in American Public Opinion on the Use of Military Force: Evidence from Before and after the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, 1980-2013," International Studies Quarterly, 60/1 (2016): 138-148.
• "The Acceptability of War and Support for Defense Spending: Evidence from Fourteen Democracies, 2004-2013," Journal of Conflict Resolution, September 2015 [with Richard J. Stoll].
• "Gender Difference or Parallel Publics? The Dynamics of Defense Spending Opinions in the United States, 1965-2007" (with Richard J. Stoll), Journal of Conflict Resolution, Volume 56 Issue 2 (April 2012), pp. 331 - 348.
• Eichenberg, Richard C. 2003. Public Opinion on European Defense Integration and NATO: Tables and Analysis. This data accompanies my article, "Having It Both Ways: European Defense Integration and the Commitment to NATO," Public Opinion Quarterly (Winter 2004), forthcoming.
• "Representing Defense: Democratic Control of the Defense Budget in the United States and Western Europe" (with Richard J. Stoll), The Journal of Conflict Resolution, 47/4 (August 2003), 399-422.