Assistant Professor, United States Air Force Academy
Paul Bezerra is an assistant professor of Military & Strategic Studies at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Before joining the U.S. Air Force Academy, Paul was the National Security Affairs Postdoctoral Fellow at the U.S. Naval War College (2018) and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona (2017). His research focuses on economic statecraft and corresponding patterns of political resistance and cooperation. His research has appeared in International Interactions, Foreign Policy Analysis, Public Choice, International Studies Review, and he is a co-principal investigator on both the Militarized Interstate Dispute dataset and the narrower Militarized Interstate Dispute Location dataset. Before pursuing his Ph.D., Paul worked in nonprofits and city government in Dallas and New York, served as an AmeriCorps national service volunteer in Fresno County, California, and helped develop and deliver a management training program for nongovernmental organizations in Duhok, Iraq.