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Carla Martínez Machain
Professor of Political Science
University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
International conflict, US military deployments and basing, great power competition, foreign military training, foreign military aid, civil-military relations, and aerial bombing
Carla Martínez Machain is an expert on foreign policy analysis, with a focus on military policy, international conflict, and civil-military relations. Her research has been funded by the Department of Defense’s Minerva Initiative and the Army Research Office, and she has experience speaking to military audiences.
Her book with Oxford University Press is titled “Beyond the Wire: U.S. Military Deployments and Host Country Public Opinion.” She has also written for policy-oriented outlets such as the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog and The Conversation.
She is also an authority on the use of aerial bombing as a tool of coercion, and on preventing civilian harm from it. She is the author of six peer-reviewed articles on this topic.
LANGUAGES:
Martínez Machain can respond to interview requests in English and Spanish.
CONTACT:
Carla Martínez Machain, PhD
Professor of Political Science
University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences