Dr Evan Resnick

Evan Resnick is Assistant Professor at RSIS. His research interests lie at the intersection of International Relations theory, international security studies, and US foreign policy. Dr Resnick’s published work has appeared in a number of academic journals, including International Security, Security Studies, and Journal of Strategic Studies. His book, Allies of Convenience: A Theory of Bargaining in U.S. Foreign Policy, was published by Columbia University Press in 2019. Dr Resnick has a BA from York University (Toronto, Canada), and MA, MPHIL, and PhD degrees from Columbia University, all in political science. He has previously taught at Yeshiva University in New York City.

Dr Resnick’s curriculum vitae is available HERE and you can find out more about him at www.evanresnick.com.

• International Relations Theory
• International Security Studies
• United States Foreign Policy, Defence Policy, and Grand Strategy
• Military Alliances
• Positive Sanctions and Statecraft

• Visiting Scholar, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University, Summer 2014
• Participant, Bridging the Gap 2014 International Policy Summer Institute, American University, June 2014
• Participant, “New Era International Workshop: The Role of Public Goods Provision in the Fields of Energy Governance and Infectious Disease Prevention in Southeast Asia,” Bridging the Gap Project, Singapore Management University, December 2013
• Visiting Scholar, Institute for Security and Conflict Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Summer 2013
• Participant, Middle East Studies Delegation to Israel, Co-Sponsored by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, and the America-Israel Friendship League, Summer 2011
• Participant, Smith Richardson Summer Workshop on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS), Summer 2002
• Article reviewer (African Security Review, Contemporary Security Policy, European Journal of International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, International Security, International Studies Perspectives, International Studies Review, Security Studies
• Book reviewer (Oxford University Press).

Policy Reports

• The Ties That Don't (Yet) Bind

  01 June, 2014

Commentaries

• The Case of Jamal Khashoggi: America’s Obsolete Alliance with Saudi Arabia

  31 October, 2018

• CO17064 | Trump’s Ill-Fated China-North Korea Gambit

  07 April, 2017

• CO16153 | Hillary Clinton’s Foreign Policy Paradox

  21 June, 2016

• CO15275 | Reciprocal Salami-Slicing in East Asia

  18 December, 2015

• CO15055 | America's Dangerously Misguided Russia Policy

  16 March, 2015

• CO14107 | Dubious Deterrence in the East China Sea

  05 June, 2014

• CO14004 | The East Asian Tinderbox: No Rules of the Game?

  06 January, 2014

• CO13069 | The Perils of Containing China

  19 April, 2013

• CO13003 | Obama's Second Term Foreign Policy: Nation-Building At Home, More Conciliation Abroad

  04 January, 2013

Authored Books

• Allies of Convenience: A Theory of Bargaining in U.S. Foreign Policy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019

Journal Articles

• Resnick, Evan N. “I Will Follow: Smart Power and the Management of Wartime Alliances,” Journal of Strategic Studies, 38:3 (2015): 383-409.
• Resnick, Evan N. “Hang Together or Hang Separately? Evaluating Rival Theories of Wartime Alliance Cohesion,” Security Studies, 22, No. 4 (2013): 672-706
• Resnick, Evan N. “Strange Bedfellows: U.S. Bargaining Behavior with Allies of Convenience,” International Security, 35, No. 3 (2010/11): 144-184.
• Resnick, Evan N. “Debating British Decisionmaking toward Nazi Germany in the 1930’s,” International Security, 34, No. 1
• Resnick, Evan N. “Defining Engagement,” Journal of International Affairs, 54, No. 2 (2001): 551-566

• IR6001 The Study of International Relations
• IR6028 Current Topics and Controversies in U.S. Foreign Policy