Kurt Taylor Gaubatz is an associate professor of political science and international studies at Old Dominion University. Before coming to ODU in 2000 he was the Visiting John G. Winant Lecturer in American Foreign Policy at Oxford University (Nuffield College) and was on the political science and international relations faculty at Stanford University. In 1996-97 he was the Susan Louise Dyer Peace Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Professor Gaubatz did his undergraduate work in economics at U.C.Berkeley.  He holds masters degrees in international law from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and in theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. He earned his PhD in political science from Stanford University. He is the author of Elections and War (Stanford Univ. Press, 1999, paperback 2002), as well as a number of articles on international law and on the relationship between domestic politics and international relations.