Kelly Kadera is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1995. Her research uses dynamic models to understand international conflict processes. She has published on topics such as war contagion, power relationships, global democratic peace, and democratic survival. Her book, The Power-Conflict Story (2001), won the 2002 award for the Best Book in Conflict Processes from the American Political Science Association. Kadera is currently working (with Crescenzi and Mitchell) on the relationship between the strength of the international democratic community and autocratic failures and the use of 3rd party mediators. Another project explores the cycling behavior of conflict in Northern Ireland.

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