Dr. Frank Harvey

Professor & Graduate Coordinator

Frank P. Harvey is Professor of International Relations. He has published numerous articles on nuclear and conventional deterrence, strategic stability, coercive diplomacy, proliferation, crisis decision-making, protracted ethnic conflict and national missile defence in International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Politics, International Journal, International Negotiation, Security Studies, International Political Science Review, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Canadian Military Journal and others. His Commentaries have appeared in the Globe and Mail, National Post and Chronicle-Herald (Halifax).

His books include 

• The Homeland Security Dilemma: Fear, Failure and the Future of American Insecurity (Routledge, 2008);     
• Smoke and Mirrors: Globalized Terrorism and the Illusion of Multilateral Security (University of Toronto Press, 2004) - Runner-up 2004-05, Donner Book Prize;
• Millennium Reflections on International Studies (co-edited with Michael Brecher, University of Michigan Press, 2002);
• Using Force to Prevent Ethnic Violence: An Evaluation of Theory and Evidence (with David Carment, Praeger, 2001);
• The International Politics of Quebec Secession: State Making and State Breaking in North America (co-edited with John Stack and David Carment, Greenwood Press 2000);
• Information Warfare and Security Policy (co-edited with Ann Griffiths, CFPS, 1999);
• Conflict in World Politics: Advances in the Study of Crisis, War and Peace (co-edited with Ben Mor, Macmillan Press 1998);
• The Future's Back: Nuclear Rivalry, Deterrence Theory and Crisis Stability After The Cold War (McGill-Queen's, 1997).

His current research interests include globalized terrorism, unilateral vs. multilateral security, proliferation, U.S. and Canadian foreign, security and defence policy, NATO military strategy and third-party intervention into ethnic disputes, peacekeeping and humanitarian intervention, US and Canadian foreign and security policy, and national missile defence.

Professor Harvey has recently been appointed a University Research Professor.  He received Dalhousie's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1998 and the Burgess Research Award in 2000. He was a NATO Fellow from 1998-2000 and has received several research grants from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Department of National Defence and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.  Professor Harvey's article, "The Homeland Security Dilemma: Imagination, Failure and the Escalating Costs of Perfecting Security," was shortlisted for the John McMenemy Prize for best article published in the Canadian Journal of Political Science for 2007.