Associate Professor of Political Science
and International Studies

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Email: cleahy@mcdaniel.edu
Phone: 410-857-2414
Office: Hill Hall 317

Research and Teaching Interests: Comparative Politics of Western Europe, Developing Nations and Communist Nations, Methodology of Comparative Politics and Conflict Resolution, International Human Rights.

Education: B.A., The American University; M.A., Ph.D., Georgetown University.

Courses Taught:

• Introduction to Political Science
• Comparative Politics: Western Europe
• Politics of the Developing Areas: Case studies in Latin America and Africa
• Communist and Post-Communist Political Systems: China and the Former Soviet Union (now CIS)
• Conflict Resolution, Peacemaking and Peacekeeping in the Post Cold War World
• Comparative Regimes Ideologies and Movements
• Comparative Political Parties (Western Europe)
• Senior Seminar on Contemporary Political Problems: (International Human Rights Law and Foreign Policy)
• World Politics
• Honors Seminar on Imperialism and Culture
• Honors Section of Politics of the Developing Areas
• Honors Section of Comparative Communist Systems
• Honors Seminar on Conflict Resolution, Peacemaking, and Peacekeeping in the Post-Cold War World

Other Positions:

• Chair of the Cross Cultural Studies Program

National Honor Societies & Honors:

• Phi Sigma Alpha
• Phi Gamma Mu
• Phi Kappa Phi
• Distinguished Teaching Award WMC 1994
• Recognized by the ASPA for Excellence in Teaching

Professional Associations:

• The International Institute of Humanitarian Law, San Remo, Italy, and Geneva, Switzerland
• Amnesty International USA, Country Expert on Lusophone, Africa, Board
• Member (3 terms), Chair of the International Committee, International Council Meeting U.S. Delegate
• National Endowment for the Humanities, East/West Center, The University of Hawaii
• The United States Institute of Peace, Washington, D.C.
• University of Virginia Human Rights and Globalization
• Carnegie Endowment for Ethics in International Affairs
• Monterey Institute for International Studies

Research and Publications:

• Chapter in Edited Volume “Teaching Conflict Resolution, Peacemaking and Peacekeeping in the Post Cold War World,” U. S. Institute of Peace, 1996
• Chair of the Task Force on the HIV/AIDS Pandemic, Amnesty International
• Policy Expert for Amnesty International on the use of force and on torture in the context of the “global war on  terror”
• Norwegian Bar Association Lectures, paper on Human Rights, NGOs and the War in Iraq