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Ivan Dinev Ivanov

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ivan.ivanov@uc.edu
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Professional Summary

Dr. Ivan Dinev Ivanov holds a PhD from the University of Cincinnati (2008) and Masters’ degrees from the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna Austria (2002) and Central European University in Budapest, Hungary (2001). He has taught at the University of Cincinnati and Muskingum College. His primary areas of teaching and research interests are international relations and comparative politics with focus on international security, alliance politics and NATO. Also his regional focus is European politics (Western and Eastern Europe) and the issues of political development, international law, economic growth and the politics of the European Union. His book entitled "Transforming the Club: NATO's new allies, missions and capabilities" will come out in 2010 and is published by Lexington Books/ Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Between 2005 and 2008 Dr. Ivanov was institutionally affiliated with the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center as a graduate fellow and assistant. The Taft Center is an outstanding place, which provides various forms of research support through competitive peer-reviewed award programs and allocations for students and faculty in the ten designated Taft disciplines at the University of Cincinnati.

Peer Reviewed Publications

Ivan Dinev Ivanov (2010). (In Press). The Relevance of Heterogeneous Clubs in Explaining Contemporary NATO Politics. Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 8(4). [Link]

Invited Publications

Craig T. Cobane (ed) (2009). (In Press). Entries on Yuri Andropov, Bulgaria, Nikita Khrushchev, Macedonia, Pact on Stability in Europe (1995), Petersburg Tasks, Stability Pact of Southeastern Europe (1999) . NATO: An Encyclopedia of International Security.

Dinkov, Dinko (ed.) (2006). The EU Eastern Enlargement and The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Migration (in Bulgarian) . Bulgaria’s Accession to the EU and the Role of the Country in the New International Division of Labor.

Books

Ivan Dinev Ivanov (2010). (In Progress). Transforming the Club: NATO’s new allies, missions and capabilities.[Link]

Other Publications

Ivan Dinev Ivanov (2009). Review of Simon Chesterman and Chia Lehnardt, From Mercenaries to Markets: The Rise and Regulation of Private Military Companies. , 38(1).

Ivan Dinev Ivanov (2009). Review of Ken Booth and Nicholas Wheeler, The Security Dilemma: Fear, Cooperation, and Trust in World Politics. , 30(1).

Ivan Dinev Ivanov (2009). The Administration of President Barack Obama and the U.S. Foreign Policy of Engagement (in Bulgarian). , 2.

Invited Presentations

Ivan Dinev Ivanov (03/23/2009). “One Language: A World of Possibilities”. Phi Sigma Iota induction, Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio.

Ivan Dinev Ivanov (05/07/2008). “Senator Robert A. Taft, NATO and U.S. Foreign Policy”. Third Taft Annual Research Symposium, University of Cincinnati.

Ivan Dinev Ivanov (12/11/2007). “NATO’s Transformation from the Perspective of Club Goods Theory and the Concept of Complementarities”. joint meeting of the Departments of Political Science and International Relations, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Paper Presentations

Ivan Dinev Ivanov. Continuity and Change of Alliance Transformation: the case NATO’s involvement in Afghanistan . 50th International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Meeting, New York City. 02/15/2009.

Ivan Dinev Ivanov. Structural, Bureaucratic, Organizational and Elite Frameworks of Explaining Military Transformation: the case of NATO . 49th International Studies Association (ISA) 2008 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. 03/30/2008.

Ivan Dinev Ivanov. Complementarities and Heterogeneity: The Case of NATO's Transformation as a Club. 32nd Annual European Studies Conference, Omaha, Nebraska. 10/05/2007.

Ivan Dinev Ivanov. Alliance Transformation and the Concept of Complementarities: the case of post-Cold War NATO. Third Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Istanbul, Turkey. 09/22/2007.

Ivan Dinev Ivanov. NATO Expansion in an Imbalanced International System: the relevance of security communities. 64rd Annual National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. 04/22/2006.

Ivan Dinev Ivanov. NATO Expansion and the Concept of Complementarities. 47th International Studies Association (ISA) 2006 Annual Convention, San Diego, CA. 03/25/2006.