RESEARCH
Research Interests
My research interests revolve around interstate conflict. My dissertation focuses on the design and structure of military coalitions, such as their command strategy and composition. My work identifies the role of threat and political concerns in state decision making around coalitions.
Additionally, I am a co-author on a forthcoming paper at Conflict Management and Peace Science. This project theorizes that changes in power over time can negatively affect the credibility of defensive alliances. We also conduct a novel test of general extended deterrence across a wide range of cases, and find a great deal of support for our theoretical propositions.
Conference Presentations
Joiner, Stephen & Jesse Johnson – “When Alliances Fail: Shifting Power, Alliance Credibility, andInterstate Disputes” – Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2016.
Joiner, Stephen & Jesse Johnson – “When Alliances Fail: Shifting Power, Alliance Credibility, andInterstate Disputes” -- Presented at the Kentucky Political Science Association, Somerset, KY, March 2016.
Joiner, Stephen - “The Politics of Apartheid and Religion: Ideological Divergence in South African Churches” - Presented at the National Council on Undergraduate Research, La Crosse, WI, April 2013.
Working Papers
Jesse Johnson & Stephen Joiner– “When Alliances Fail: Shifting Power, Alliance Credibility, and
Interstate Disputes”