Jonathan M. DiCicco is associate professor of political science and international relations at Middle Tennessee State University, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in IR. He specializes in international and national security, international conflict and its resolution, and the politics of protest, and he supervises a Model United Nations program. As a research scholar, DiCicco has published peer-reviewed articles on international rivalries, power transitions and war, international organization and war prevention, and U.S. foreign policy decision-making in journals such as International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Political Research Quarterly, and he has published in International Studies Perspectives on the use of innovative simulations for undergraduate teaching.