ABOUT ME
I currently serve as a Postdoctoral researcher with the University of Central Florida and the Chr. Michelsen Institute.
I received my Ph.D. from the University of Central Florida in December 2018. My dissertation, entitled, "The Conditionality of Vulnerability: Three Analyses of Risk and Opportunity in Civil-Military Relations," is comprised of three essays exploring democratic vulnerability to coups and the propensity for democratization in the aftermath of irregular removals.
My research has been published in Foreign Policy Analysis, Water, Democratization, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Africa Spectrum and I have been invited to revise and resubmit work at Journal of Global Security Studies and Conflict Management and Peace Science. My research interests include comparative politics, coups d'état, mutinies, democratization, political development, and human rights.
I received my Ph.D. from the University of Central Florida in December 2018. My dissertation, entitled, "The Conditionality of Vulnerability: Three Analyses of Risk and Opportunity in Civil-Military Relations," is comprised of three essays exploring democratic vulnerability to coups and the propensity for democratization in the aftermath of irregular removals.
My research has been published in Foreign Policy Analysis, Water, Democratization, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Africa Spectrum and I have been invited to revise and resubmit work at Journal of Global Security Studies and Conflict Management and Peace Science. My research interests include comparative politics, coups d'état, mutinies, democratization, political development, and human rights.
RESEARCH
Publications
Rebecca Schiel, Jonathan Powell, and Ursula Daxecker. "UN Peacekeeping Deployments and Mutinies in African Sending States." Forthcoming at Foreign Policy Analysis.
Rebecca Schiel, Malcolm Langford, and Bruce Wilson. 2020. "Does it Matter? Constitutionalization, Democratic Governance, and the Right to Water." Water 2(12): 350.
Rebecca Schiel. 2019. "An Assessment of Democratic Vulnerability: Regime Type, Economic Development, and Coups d'état." Democratization 26(8): 1439- 57.
Rebecca Schiel, Christopher Faulkner, and Jonathan Powell. 2017. "Mutiny in Côte d'Ivoire," Africa Spectrum 52(2): 103-15.
Jonathan Powell, Trace Lasley, and Rebecca Schiel. 2016. "Combatting Coups d'état in Africa, 1950-2014." Studies in Comparative International Development 51(4): 482-502.
Rebecca Schiel, Jonathan Powell, and Ursula Daxecker. "UN Peacekeeping Deployments and Mutinies in African Sending States." Forthcoming at Foreign Policy Analysis.
Rebecca Schiel, Malcolm Langford, and Bruce Wilson. 2020. "Does it Matter? Constitutionalization, Democratic Governance, and the Right to Water." Water 2(12): 350.
Rebecca Schiel. 2019. "An Assessment of Democratic Vulnerability: Regime Type, Economic Development, and Coups d'état." Democratization 26(8): 1439- 57.
Rebecca Schiel, Christopher Faulkner, and Jonathan Powell. 2017. "Mutiny in Côte d'Ivoire," Africa Spectrum 52(2): 103-15.
Jonathan Powell, Trace Lasley, and Rebecca Schiel. 2016. "Combatting Coups d'état in Africa, 1950-2014." Studies in Comparative International Development 51(4): 482-502.
Under Review
Jonathan Powell and Rebecca Schiel. "Oil Wealth, Risk Acceptance, and the Seizure of Power." Revise & resubmit at Journal of Global Security Studies.
Rebecca Schiel, Jonathan Powell, and Christopher Faulkner. "Mutiny in Africa, 1950-2018." Revise and resubmit at Conflict Management and Peace Science.
Güneş Murat Tezcür, Rebecca Schiel, and Bruce M. Wilson. “Evaluating a Human Rights Approach to Water: A Case Study of a Turkish Dam.”
Working Papers
Rebecca Schiel. "Seizing the Moment: Irregular Leader Removal, Economic Development, and Democratization."
Jonathan Powell and Rebecca Schiel. "US Military Aid and Democracy in the Shadow of Coups."
Rebecca Schiel, Bruce Wilson, and Malcolm Langford. “Democratic Deficiencies: Democratic Institutions, Economic Development, and Water Access.”
Rebecca Schiel. "Seizing the Moment: Irregular Leader Removal, Economic Development, and Democratization."
Jonathan Powell and Rebecca Schiel. "US Military Aid and Democracy in the Shadow of Coups."
Rebecca Schiel, Bruce Wilson, and Malcolm Langford. “Democratic Deficiencies: Democratic Institutions, Economic Development, and Water Access.”
Commentary
"Silent Guns: Examining the Two-Year Absence of Coups in Africa," with Jonathan Powell. Political Violence at a Glance. 18 September 2017.
"Making Sense of Recent Mutinies in Côte d'Ivoire," with Christopher Faulkner. Political Violence at a Glance. 9 June 2017
"Silent Guns: Examining the Two-Year Absence of Coups in Africa," with Jonathan Powell. Political Violence at a Glance. 18 September 2017.
"Making Sense of Recent Mutinies in Côte d'Ivoire," with Christopher Faulkner. Political Violence at a Glance. 9 June 2017
TEACHING
Adjunct
American Government (POS 2041) Fall 2018
Introduction to International Relations: Theory and Practice (INR 2002) Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2018
Teaching Assistant
Politics of the Middle East (CPO3404)
Contemporary Revolutions and Political Conflict (POS 3253)
Honors American National Government (POS2041H)
Florida Politics (POS3182)
Scope and Methods of Political Science (POS3703)
American Government (POS 2041) Fall 2018
Introduction to International Relations: Theory and Practice (INR 2002) Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2018
Teaching Assistant
Politics of the Middle East (CPO3404)
Contemporary Revolutions and Political Conflict (POS 3253)
Honors American National Government (POS2041H)
Florida Politics (POS3182)
Scope and Methods of Political Science (POS3703)
CONTACT ME
University of Central Florida
Department of Political Science
4297 Andromeda Loop North
Orlando FL, 32816
Email
rebecca.schiel@ucf.edu
UCF Website
Department of Political Science
4297 Andromeda Loop North
Orlando FL, 32816
rebecca.schiel@ucf.edu
UCF Website
