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Research Areas research areas

Overview

  • Alynna J. Lyon is a Professor of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire. She is author of US Politics and the United Nations (Lynne Rienner, 2016), co-author of The United Nations in the 21 Century 6th ed. (Routledge, 2022) with Karen Mingst and Margaret Karns, co-author of The United Nations: 75 Years of Promoting Peace, Human Rights and Development with Kent Kille (2020), and co-editor of two books, Pope Francis as a Global Actor: Where Politics and Theology Meet (Palgrave, 2018) and Religion and Politics in a Global Society (Lexington, 2013). She is former chair of the International Organization section of the International Studies Association (2016-2018), Editor-in-Chief of Global Governance and a Faculty Fellow for the Global, Racial and Social Inequality Lab. She also serves as Faculty Advisor for UNH Model United Nations. She also serves as Faculty Advisor for UNH Model United Nations.
  • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title
    2019 Reversing Domestic Skepticism about International Organizations: Contending Narratives, U.S. Politics and the Creation of the United NationsInternational Journal of Management and Organizational Studies.  9:7-23. 2019
    2016 Calculation of Goodwill: Humanitarianism, Strategic Interests, and the U.S. Response to Typhoon YolandaGlobal Security and Intelligence Studies.  2. 2016
    2009 Global Good Samaritans: When do we Heed 'the Responsibility to Protect'?Irish Studies in International Affairs.  20:41-54. 2009
    2009 Was Woodrow Wilson Right? Assessing American Attitudes towards Humanitarian InterventionJournal of Peace, Conflict and Development.  13:1-41. 2009
    2009 Where are the 'Good Samaritans'? Assessing Cross-National Support for Peacekeeping OperationsJournal of International Peacekeeping.  13:239-266. 2009
    2008 Humanitarian interventionThe Journal of Politics.  70:885-886. 2008
    2007 American Humanitarian Intervention: Toward a Theory of CoevolutionForeign Policy Analysis.  3:46-78. 2007
    2007 American Humanitarian Intervention: Toward a Theory of CoevolutionForeign Policy Analysis.  3:46-78. 2007
    2007 Moral Motives and Policy Actions: The Case of Dag Hammarskjöld at the United NationsPublic Integrity.  9:79-95. 2007
    2005 Beyond Rwanda and Kosovo: The Interactive Dynamics of International Peacekeeping and Ethnic MobilizationGlobal Society.  19:267-288. 2005
    2002 Policing after ethnic conflictPolicing (Oxford): a journal of policy and practice.  25:221-241. 2002
    2002 International Influences on the Mobilization of Violence in Kosovo and MacedoniaJournal of International Relations and Development.  5:275-294. 2002
    2002 Ethnic challenges to the modern nation state.The Journal of Politics.  64:330-333. 2002
    2002 Ethnopolitical warfare: Causes, consequences and possible solutions.The Journal of Politics.  64:330-333. 2002
    2001 Policing after ethnic conflictPolicing (Oxford): a journal of policy and practice.  24:563-585. 2001
    2001 Mobilizing ethnic conflict: Kurdish separatism in Germany and the PKKEthnic and Racial Studies.  24:925-948. 2001

    Book

    Year Title
    2022 The United Nations in the 21st Century 2022
    2020 The United Nations 75 Years of Promoting Peace, Human Rights, and Development 2020
    2018 When Theology and Politics Meet: Pope Francis as a Global Actor 2018
    2016 The United Nations in the 21st Century 2016
    2016 US Politics and the United Nations A Tale of Dysfunctional Dynamics 2016
    2012 Religion and Politics in a Global Society Comparative Perspectives from the Portuguese-Speaking World 2012

    Chapter

    Year Title
    2018 Eluding Established Categories: Toward an Understanding of Pope Francis.  3-22. 2018
    2018 Pope Francis as a Global Policy Entrepreneur: Moral Authority and Climate Change.  119-141. 2018
    2018 The United Nations, New Wars and the Challenge of Peace Operations 2018
    2018 U.S.-UN Relations and the Global Agenda: Rejecting One’s Protégé 2018
    2013 The Activist Catholic Church in Post-Portuguese East Timor.  Ed. Lyon, Alynna.  2013
    2012 Liberalism 2012
    2011 Why Democracy? 2011
    2007 Dag Hammarskjöld and the Impact of Religious and Ethical Values of the United Nations Secretaries-General on Building the Peace 2007
    2006 The East Timorese Church: From Oppression to Liberation 2006
    2002 Separatism in Chechnya: The Role of the Jihad 2002

    Teaching Activities

  • Global Issues Intrntnl Affairs Taught course
  • Global Issues Intrntnl Affairs Taught course
  • International Organization Taught course
  • Policy Across Borders Taught course
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course
  • World Politics Taught course
  • Honors/Global Justice Taught course 2023
  • Policy Across Borders Taught course 2023
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2023
  • Global Issues Intrntnl Affairs Taught course 2022
  • International Organization Taught course 2022
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2022
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2022
  • World Politics Taught course 2022
  • Global Issues Intrntnl Affairs Taught course 2021
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2021
  • Advanced Study Taught course 2021
  • Honors/Global Justice Taught course 2021
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2021
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2021
  • International Organization Taught course 2020
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2020
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2020
  • Independent Study Taught course 2020
  • Rsrch Exp/Political Science Taught course 2020
  • Washington Center Internship Taught course 2020
  • World Politics Taught course 2020
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2019 - 2020
  • International Organization Taught course 2019
  • Rsrch Exp/Political Science Taught course 2019
  • World Politics Taught course 2019
  • Washington Center Internship Taught course 2019
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2019
  • Rsrch Exp/Political Science Taught course 2019
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2019
  • World Politics Taught course 2019
  • International Organization Taught course 2018
  • World Politics Taught course 2018
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2018
  • Honors/Global Justice Taught course 2018
  • Pro-Seminar Taught course 2018
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2017 - 2018
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2017
  • World Politics Taught course 2017
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2017
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2016 - 2017
  • International Organization Taught course 2016
  • World Politics Taught course 2016
  • Honors/Global Justice Taught course 2016
  • World Politics Taught course 2016
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2015 - 2016
  • International Organization Taught course 2015
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2015
  • Global Issues Intrntnl Affairs Taught course 2015
  • Sem/ Global Issues & Sust Taught course 2015
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2014 - 2015
  • International Organization Taught course 2014
  • World Politics Taught course 2014
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2014
  • Global Issues Intrntnl Affairs Taught course 2014
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2014
  • United States in World Affairs Taught course 2013 - 2014
  • Education And Training

  • B.A. Political Science, New Mexico State University at Alamogordo
  • M.A. Political Science, New Mexico State University at Alamogordo
  • Ph.D. Internationl Relations&Affairs, University of South Carolina
  • Full Name

  • Alynna Lyon
  • Mailing Address

  • Department of Political Science

    319 Horton Hall

    Durham, New Hampshire  03824

    United States