Frederic S. Pearson (Ph.D.,
University of Michigan).Professor and Director, Center for Peace and Conflict
Studies
Professor Pearson studies international military intervention,
arms trade, and international conflict. Among his recent publications are
the fourth edition of International Relations: The Global Condition
in the Late Twentieth Century with J.M. Rochester along with a text
on international political economy with WSU Ph.D. Simon Payaslian. Dr.
Pearson has two books on the international arms trade: The Global Spread
of Arms (Westview Press, 1994); and Arms and Warfare (University
of South Carolina Press, 1994) on the effect of arms transfers during war
with a colleague at the University of Hamburg in Germany. They, along with
WSU Ph.D. candidate, Chris Crantz, have a joint article on these effects
in the 1994 Yearbook of the Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute (SIPRI). His teaching interests include the causes of war, international
theory, the roots of social conflict and Middle East politics.
