Barbara Farnham
Barbara Farnham is a Senior Reseach Scholar at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. She previously served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. Farnham has also lectured at Princeton and Hunter College. Her current research focuses on threat perception and the impact of domestic politics on foreign policy.
In 2001, Farnham was awarded the Erik H. Erikson Award for Early Career Research Achievement by the International Society of Political Psychology.
Farnham received a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Selected Publications
“The Impact of the Political Context on Foreign Policy.” Political Psychology (June 2004).
“The Theory of Democratic Peace and Threat Perception.” International Studies Quarterly (September 2003).
“Perceiving the End of Threat: Ronald Reagan and the Gorbachev Revolution.” Good Judgment and Foreign Policy, ed. Stanley Renshon and Deborah Larson (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).
Roosevelt and the Munich Crisis: A Study in Political Decision-making (Princeton University Press, 1997).
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Avoiding Losses/Taking Risks: Prospect Theory and International Conflict (University of Michigan Press, 1994).
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