McGuinn Hall Room 331
Telephone: 617-552-3195
Email: lindsey.orourke@bc.edu
International Relations Theory; U.S. Foreign Policy; International Security; Military Strategy
Lindsey O鈥橰ourke joined md传媒国产剧 College鈥檚 Political Science department in autumn 2014. Her research interests include international relations theory, U.S. foreign policy, international security, and military strategy. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the causes, conduct, and consequences of U.S.-orchestrated covert regime changes during the Cold War, as well as a series of related articles on the impact of regime change on interstate relations.
Before joining the faculty at md传媒国产剧 College, O鈥橰ourke was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College and a pre-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at George Washington University. She has a Ph.D. in Political Science and an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago.
During the 2014-2015 academic year, she will be teaching 鈥淯.S. Foreign Policy since 1945,鈥 鈥淭he World Wars,鈥 and 鈥淪eminar on Foreign-Imposed Regime Change.鈥
Covert Regime Change: America's Secret Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2018)聽
O鈥橰ourke, Lindsey A. (2009) 鈥淲hat鈥檚 Special about Female Suicide Terrorism?鈥 Security Studies, 18:4, Pgs. 681-718.
O鈥橰ourke, Lindsey; Pape, Robert; and McDermit, Jenna (March 30, 2010) 鈥淲hat Makes Chechen Women so Dangerous?鈥
The New York Times, Op-Ed Contributor.
O鈥橰ourke, Lindsey A. (August 2, 2008) 鈥淏ehind the Woman Behind the Bomb,鈥 The New York Times, Op-Ed Contributor.
Reprinted in The International Herald Tribune (August 4, 2008) and De Morgen, (August 5, 2008