Krista Wiegand
Faculty and Staff
Krista Wiegand
Professor
Fields of Interest:
International Relations
Education: Ph.D. Duke University, 2004
Dr. Krista E. Wiegand, a specialist in international relations, holds a joint faculty appointment with the Department of Political Science and the Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs. Professor Wiegand joined the UTK faculty in 2014 after nine years on the faculty at Georgia Southern University. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University in 2004. She is Director of the Center for National Security & Foreign Affairs at the Baker School, overseeing grant funded research, working groups of faculty affiliates and fellows, student research, workshops and guest speakers.
Research Interests
Dr. Wiegand’s research covers territorial and maritime disputes, conflict resolution/management, war and militarized interstate disputes, rebel group grievances, international mediation, arbitration, and adjudication, and Indo-Pacific security.. She has published three books: The Peaceful Resolution of Territorial and Maritime Disputes, with Emilia Justyna Powell (Oxford University Press, 2023); Enduring Territorial Disputes: Strategies of Bargaining, Coercive Diplomacy, and Settlement (University of Georgia Press, 2011); and Bombs and Bullets: Governance by Islamic Terrorist and Guerrilla Groups (Routledge, 2010) and co-edited Islands of Contention: The China-Japan Border Dispute in a Multidisciplinary Perspective (Routledge, 2015). She regularly participates in policy engagement with U.S. government agencies regarding U.S. national security strategy in the Indo-Pacific region.
Selected Publications
- Lee, Sojeong, Brandon Prins, and Krista E. Wiegand. 2021. “The US-South Korea Alliance: How the Patron Benefits from the Protégé,” International Area Studies Review 24 (2), 97-117.
- Denison, Benjamin and Krista E. Wiegand. 2021. “Democratizing the Dispute: Democratization and the History of Conflict Management,” International Interactions 47 (4): 720-49.
- Wiegand, Krista E., Eric Keels, and Erin Rowland. 2021. “Third-Party Knowledge and Success in Civil War Mediation,” British Journal of Politics & International Relations 23 (1): 3-21.
- Wiegand, Krista E., Emilia Justyna Powell, and Steven McDowell. 2021. “The Peaceful Resolution of Territorial Disputes Dataset, 1945-2015,” Journal of Peace Research 58 (2): 304-14.
- Keels, Eric and Krista E. Wiegand. 2020. “Mutually Assured Distrust: Ideology and Commitment Problems in Civil Wars,” Journal of Conflict Resolution64 (10): 2022–2048.
- Wiegand, Krista E. 2019. “Peaceful Dispute Resolution by Authoritarian Regimes,” Foreign Policy Analysis 15 (3): 303-21.
- Wiegand, Krista E. and Eric Keels. 2019. “Oil Wealth, Civil War Duration, and the Role of Coalition Size in Terminating Conflicts,” Journal of Conflict Resolution63 (4) 1077-1105.
- Wiegand, Krista E. and Erik Beuck. 2018. “Strategic Selection: Philippine Arbitration against China in the South China Sea,” Asian Security.
- Hwang, Wonjae, Wonbin Cho, and Krista E. Wiegand. 2018. “Do Korean-Japanese Historical Disputes Generate Rally Effects?” Journal of Asian Studies 77 (3): 693-711.
- Wiegand, Krista E. 2015. “The Korean-Japanese Security Relationship and the Dokdo Islets Dispute,” The Pacific Review 28 (3): 347-366.
- Wiegand, Krista E. 2014. “Mediation in Territorial, Maritime, and River Disputes,” International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice 19 (2): 343-370.
- Powell, Emilia Justyna and Krista E. Wiegand. 2014. “Strategic Selection: Political and Legal Mechanisms of Territorial Dispute Resolution,” Journal of Peace Research 51 (3): 361-374.
- Wiegand, Krista E. and Emilia Justyna Powell. 2011. “Unexpected Companions: Bilateral Cooperation between States Involved in Territorial Disputes,” Conflict Management & Peace Science 28 (3): 209-229.
- Wiegand, Krista E. and Emilia Justyna Powell. 2011. “Past Experience, Quest for the Best Forum, and Peaceful Attempts to Resolve Territorial Disputes,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 55 (1,): 33-59.
- Wiegand, Krista E. 2011. “Militarized Territorial Disputes: States’ Attempts to Transfer Reputation for Resolve,” Journal of Peace Research 48 (1): 101-113.
Events
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Guest Speaker Miles Kenney-Lazar: “Defending Accumulation: Global Rubber and the Embrace of Sustainability Capitalism”
Rubber plantations have been sites of social and environmental injustice since their colonial expansion. Several initiatives have emerged in recent years to address these...
Guest Speaker Miles Kenney-Lazar: “Defending Accumulation: Global Rubber and the Embrace of Sustainability Capitalism”Guest Speaker Miles Kenney-Lazar: “Defending Accumulation: Global Rubber and the Embrace of Sustainability Capitalism” 03:00 pm - Frieson Black Cultural Center- Date
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- Frieson Black Cultural Center
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“Oil Don’t Spoil”: ExxonMobile and the Challenges of National and Transnational Development in the Amazon Region
DESCRIPTION OF EVENT The visit of Dr. Vincent Adams to give a keynote at the University of Tennessee Knoxville in October 2022. Dr. Alexander’s lecture will be “ “Oil Don’t...
“Oil Don’t Spoil”: ExxonMobile and the Challenges of National and Transnational Development in the Amazon Region“Oil Don’t Spoil”: ExxonMobile and the Challenges of National and Transnational Development in the Amazon Region 05:00 pm - Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs- Date
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“Palm Oil Diplomacy”: Assessing Domestic Support for Indonesia’s Response to the EU RED II
Join us for the UT Global Studies Speaker Series as we proudly present a lecture titled “Palm Oil Diplomacy: Assessing Domestic Support for Indonesia’s Response to the EU RED...
“Palm Oil Diplomacy”: Assessing Domestic Support for Indonesia’s Response to the EU RED II“Palm Oil Diplomacy”: Assessing Domestic Support for Indonesia’s Response to the EU RED II 03:30 pm - International House- Date
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- International House
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Vols Making an Impact in Political Communications
The Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, College of Communication & Information, Center for Career Development & Academic Exploration, and Department of Political...
Vols Making an Impact in Political CommunicationsVols Making an Impact in Political Communications 05:00 pm - Communications Building- Date
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Interest Group Simulation with Political Communications Alumni
The Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, College of Communication & Information, Center for Career Development & Academic Exploration, and Department of Political...
Interest Group Simulation with Political Communications AlumniInterest Group Simulation with Political Communications Alumni 12:00 pm - Communications Building- Date
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- Communications Building