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Benjamin A. Valentino

Benjamin A. Valentino is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College and the faculty coordinator for the War and Peace Studies Program at Dartmouth’s Dickey Center for International Understanding. His research focuses on American foreign policy, public opinion on the use of force and on the causes and prevention of genocide.