Associate Professor
Graduate Advisor
Dept. of Political Science
University of North Texas
Box 305340
Denton, TX 76203-5340
940.565.2313 (voice) / 940.565.4818 (fax) / ajenter@unt.edu
Office Hours, Fall '08: Wooten Hall 145, Tuesday. 2-5 pm & by appt.
First mower (at age 42), Forth Worth, TX, summer 2008
Current Research Projects
Will the Surge of American Troops in Iraq Work?
Read this article in the ISP (co-authored with J. Michael Greig, UNT) in PDF : Surge
(slideshow: Slides 1)
What is the Durabilty, Institutional Trajectory, and Long-term National-level Implications of Imposing Democracy?
Read this paper (co-authored with J. Michael Greig, UNT) in PDF (Forthcoming, Foreign Policy Analysis, Winter 2008) : Imposed Democracy
How Long Will the Democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan Endure?
Read this paper (co-authored with J. Michael Greig, UNT, and Dawn Miller, Penn State) in PDF : Durability
How Stable Will the Democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan Be?
Read this paper (co-authored with J. Michael Greig, UNT) in PDF (Forthcoming, JCR, Dec. 2008): Political Challenge
How Will Iraqi Democracy Influence Peace, Democracy & Prosperity in the Middle East?
Read this paper (co-authored with J. Michael Greig, UNT) in PDF : Beacons of Hope? (JOP Fall 2005)
Third Parties & the Civil War Process
Read this paper (co-authored with Dylan Balch-Lindsay, late of Univ. of New Mexico, and KyleJoyce, Penn State) in PDF (Journal of Peace Research): pdf
A Dynamic Model of Interstate Interaction
Read this paper (co-authored with Mark J. C. Crescenzi, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Stephen Long, Kansas State) in PDF (Forthcoming CMPS, Fall 2008): pdf
An In-class Simulation of a Two-State Territorial Dispute
Read this paper (co-authored Eric Jepsen, Univ. of South Dakota) in PDF (Forthcoming, International Studies Perspectives, Spring 2009) : pdf
COURSES, FALL 2008
5340.001 (Scope & Methods [Graduate]):
Syllabus
Exercise #1
Reports:
group 1
group 2
group 3
group 4
group 5
Exercise #2
Reports:
group 1
group 2
group 3
group 4
group 5
Exercise #3
Reports:
4830.001 (American Foreign Policy [Undergraduate]):
Group Discussion Questions
Syllabus
Curriculum Vitae
University of North Texas
UNT Political Science Dept.
New Graduate Student Handbook
The Guide to Writing Graduate Political Science Projects
TA Evaluation Form
Fall 2008 Funding Assignments (Version 8/22)
Stuff
``Which Came First, The Chicken or the Egg? (Part One)''
``Which Came First, The Chicken or the Egg? (Part Two)''
``Which Came First, The Chicken or the Egg? (Part Three)''
``Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones''