Kate Brannum, Ph.D.

kbrannum@apus.edu

American Public University

Country: United States (Massachusetts)

About Me:

Dr. Brannum is a Full Professor and the Program Director of International Relations and Global Security at the American Public University System. Dr. Brannum has been teaching at the university level for 25 years and online for 17 years. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science with concentrations in international relations, comparative politics and public administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her dissertation focus was compliance with international norms against torture. She is currently on the board of the Center on Transnational Crime and Political Conflict. Her recent projects have included a study of the relationship between fear, (in)security and political power in two different contexts. The first focuses on vaccine drives in Pakistan; and the second on the relationship between women’s security and community security in two communities, the Mayan community in the Lake Atitlan region of Guatemala, and the Quiverfull community in the United States. The results of these studies were two book chapters, “Fear as Currency in Political Actions: Vaccines, Hope and Despair” co-written with Joseph Campos II and “Choices of Lesser Importance? Conflicting Values Shaping Perceptions of Community Security & Women’s Health Security.” She also co-authored an article entitled “Game of Norms: Panama, the International Community and Human Rights” with Michelle Watts and Kimberly Daniels Ruff. She is currently involved in two new research projects. One is a critical theoretical exploration of the ways in which the concept of peace is utilized and managed by the international arena and statist systems. It explores the ideas of “peace” and its development in the face of the forces of globalization that have subjected the national security state to global interpenetration and intermeshing of political, social, economic, and military forces that strain the practices of statecraft. The second project is a study of the way smaller groups seek to constrain the authority of states. This comparative case study analysis examines state interaction with four non-state actors in Germany and the US.

Research Interests

Religion & Politics

Conflict Processes & War

Human Rights

Latin American And Caribbean Politics

Political Violence

Global Security

Human Security

Women's Health

Conflict Resolution

US Patriot Movement

Countries of Interest

Guatemala

United States

Panama