Daniel Szarke
Adjunct Instructor
Dr. Daniel E. Szarke is a former Air Force office with a military career in positions spanning strategic airlift, strategic planning, international and regional affairs, operations, training, and higher education. His assignments included postings in Europe, multiple deployments in the Middle East, and extensive worldwide travel. He completed his Ph.D. in Political Science with an emphasis in Comparative Politics at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL in 2015. A fluent French speaker, his field research focused on strategic and security relationships between elites in the capital and populations at more remote reaches of the state in Mali and Niger. He received a Master's in International Relations from St. Mary's University in San Antonio, and a MAster in the History of International Relations from the University Robert Schuman in Strasbourg, France, with a particular focus on NATO-Russia relations. His research interests include conflict and security, neo-patrimonial relationships, decentralization, and center-periphery relations in weak and failed states.
Classes Taught:
- DSS 5311: Strategic Survey of Africa
- DSS 5313: Strategic Survey-Middle East