DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Interests

Research Interest(s): International Security Cooperation, Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping, European Union Security And Defense Policy, Transatlantic Cooperation

Program Area(s): International Relations

Regional Specialization(s): Europe; Africa

Subfield Specialties: Conflict Studies; International Organizations and International Law

Biography

Prof. Henke’s academic expertise is in military interventions, peacekeeping and European security and defense policy. She examines questions such as: Why do military interventions occur? How are coalitions-of-the-willing constructed? And what are the long-term political effects of military interventions?

Marina has published widely in peer-reviewed journals on these topics such as International Security, Security Studies, International Studies Quarterly, International Peacekeeping, and Conflict Management and Peace Science. She is also the author of “Constructing Allied Cooperation: Diplomacy, Payments, and Power in Multilateral Coalitions” (Cornell University Press, 2019).

Prior to joining Northwestern University, Prof. Henke was a Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar with the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). She also served as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public and International Affairs (JPIA) and worked with the U.S. House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee, the European Commission, the European Parliament, the German Foreign Office as well as NGOs in Mexico and Argentina.

Recent Publications

• Constructing Allied Cooperation: Diplomacy, Payments, and Power in Multilateral Military Coalitions (Cornell University Press, 2019)
• “Networked Cooperation: How the European Union Mobilizes Peacekeeping Forces to Project Power Abroad.” Security Studies 28, no.5 (2019): 901-934.
• “Buying Allies. Payment Practices in Multilateral Military Coalitions.” International Security 43, no. 4 (2019):128-162.
• “Tony Blair’s Gamble: The Middle East Peace Process and British Participation in the Iraq Campaign in 2003,” British Journal of Politics and International Relations 20, no. 4 (2018):773–789.
• “The Rotten Carrot: Reexamining U.S.-Turkish Bargaining Failure over Iraq in 2003,” Security Studies 27, no.1 (2018): 120-47.
• "The Politics of Diplomacy: How the United States Builds Multilateral Military Coalitions." International Studies Quarterly 61, no. 2 (2017): 410-24.

Courses Taught

• POL 346 – European Union
• POL 345 – National Security
• POL 395 – Military Interventions
• POL 490 – International Security Cooperation