About
Dave Ohls serves as a Professorial Lecturer at the School of International Service (SIS), American University, and currently holds the interim leadership of the Global Governance, Politics, and Security (GGPS) Program. His teaching responsibilities for the 2025 academic year include:
- Spring 2025: SIS-708 Foundations of Global Security
- Spring 2025: SISU-306 Advanced International Studies Research: Game Theory in International Relations
- Fall 2025: SIS-600 International Affairs Statistics and Methods
- Fall 2025: SISU-380 Topics in Global and Comparative Governance: Political Violence: War, Rebellion, Terrorism
His research investigates critical dynamics in international security through rigorous methodological frameworks. Key foci include inter-ethnic power-sharing arrangements under dual threats of coups and civil wars, radicalization pathways and counter-terrorism efficacy of drone warfare, and costly signaling mechanisms during endogenous power shifts from weapons proliferation. He consistently employs game theoretic modeling, formal analysis, and advanced statistical techniques to dissect these complex security phenomena.
No scientific awards were documented in the source materials. The available information also lacks details regarding graduate student supervision, research grant funding, or laboratory/team affiliations.
