{"id":27581,"date":"2020-11-12T14:12:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T19:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=27581"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:36:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:36:02","slug":"rob-haswell","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/people\/rob-haswell\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Haswell"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p>I began the PhD program in September 2020, having previously attended St. Francis Xavier University (2018) and the University of Edinburgh (2019). I am currently a fifth-year political science PhD candidate at Carleton University, with concentrations in the fields of international relations and comparative politics. I am interested in American foreign policy and the role of the United States military therein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My dissertation draws on both neoclassical realism and the writings of Carl von Clausewitz to analyze the role that the foreign policy executive&#8217;s threat perception, the organizational culture of the United States military, and civil-military relations played during the Vietnam War (1960-65) and the War in Afghanistan (2009-2014), particularly in the operationalization of counterinsurgency. In doing so, the dissertation aims to draw a straighter line from the international context to the tactical and operational level of counterinsurgency and provide a more theoretically informed account than is typically presented. It will be supervised by Dr. Elinor Sloan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Largely working within international security, my research interests include the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, non-state actors such as the Taliban and the Islamic State and other forms of transnational terrorism, as well as Iranian foreign and defense policy. I have presented work at the American Political Science Association&#8217;s Annual Meeting, as well as at the United States Military Academy, West Point; and have published with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. Additionally, I am the coauthor of a forthcoming volume about the Obama administration in Afghanistan. Following the completion of my dissertation, I am hoping to work in the national security community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my free time, I enjoy reading, cooking, collecting vinyl records, and fly fishing.<br>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39417,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Rob","cu_people_last_name":"Haswell ","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[19,50],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-27581","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-graduate-student-profiles","cu_people_type-phd-candidate"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"PhD candidate","cu_people_degree":"BA Hons  StFX (2018) & MSc,International Relations, University of Edinburgh (2019)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"robhaswell@cmail.carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CRFHaswell","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/27581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/27581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39418,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/27581\/revisions\/39418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=27581"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=27581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}