Schar Faculty

Areas of Research: Terrorism, International Security, Turkey-U.S. Relations, Middle Eastern Politics, American Security Policy, Conflict Zones Security Policy, Syrian Refugees, Transnational Crime, Narco-terrorism, Corruption, WMD trafficking, Human Trafficking, Antiquities Smuggling, Human Smuggling, Drug Trafficking

Areas of Research: Ethnicity and Nationalism, International Relations, International Relations Theory, International Security, and South Asia

Areas of Research: Comparative Politics, Conflict Studies, Democratization, Gender, Latin America, Historical Memory, Human Rights, Qualitative Methods, State-Society Relations, Transitional Justice

Areas of Research: Public Management, Public Administration Ethics, Administrative Law, Judicial Process, and Organization Theory

Areas of Research: Politics of punishment, Penal law, Law & society, Democratic theory

Areas of Research: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Biodefense, Ethics and Weapons Development, Former Soviet States, Health and Security, Illicit Trade, International Security, Knowledge Management, Qualitative Methods, Science and Technology Studies, Weapons of Mass Destruction

Areas of Research: Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Nationalist and Ethnoreligious Social Movements, Politics and Society in Contemporary Israel

Areas of Research: Economic Development, Economic Policy, Energy Policy, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Industrial Organization, International Development, Microeconomics, Regional Development, Science and Technology Policy

Areas of Research: Race and Ethnicity, Urban Policy, Housing

Edmund J. Zolnik is an associate professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. His major areas of expertise are community and regional development; safe and sustainable transportation; and multilevel modeling.