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Gary Goertz received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan
in 1988. Gary Goertz teaches political science at the University
of Arizona. He is the author or co-author of seven books and
over 40 articles on issues of international politics, methodology,
and conflict studies. He is the author of "Contexts of
International Politics" ( Cambridge 1994) and co-author
with Paul Diehl of "Territorial Changes and International
Conflict" (Routledge 1992) and "War and Peace in International
Rivalry" ( University of Michigan Press, 2000). His current
interests include on conflict management and conflict resolution,
for which he and Paul Diehl have received a National Science
Foundation grant. Other research interests include the theory
of international institutions and norms for which he has also
received an NSF grant and published a book "International
norms and decision making: a punctuated equilibrium model." He
is currently working on a large project on the evolution of
international institutions, focusing on how they adopt conflict
management dimensions. Having been trained as a statistician
before his Ph.D. in political science, he has an active and
ongoing involvement with methodological issues. Currently the
topic of necessary conditions, their theory and methodology
occupy him and on which he has co-edited a anthology on topic
this topic, "Necessary Conditions: Theory, Methodology,
and Applications" (Rowman & Littlefield 2002). He is
co-editor of the anthology "Necessary Conditions: Theory,
Methodology, and Applications" ( 2003) and "Explaining
War and Peace: Case Studies and Necessary Condition Counterfactuals," (2007).
He is editor of a special issue of Political Analysis entitled "Causal
Complexity and Qualitative Methods" (2006). His most recent
methodological work deals with the construction of concepts "Social
Science Concepts: A User's Guide" (2006 Princeton University
Press) and "Politics, Gender, and Concepts: Theory and
Methodology" (2008 Cambridge University Press).
Department of Political Science,
The University of Arizona
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