Dr Jonathan Monten

Associate Professor in Political Science
Room: G.02, 31 Tavistock Square
Telephone: 020 3108 9296 (ext. 59296)
Email: j.monten@ucl.ac.uk

Biography

I am Associate Professor in Political Science and Director of the International Public Policy Programme at UCL. My research and teaching interests are in the areas of international relations, international security, and U.S. foreign policy. My work has appeared in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, and Perspectives on Politics. I have previously held postdoctoral research fellowships at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, and the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale University. I received my PhD from the Department of Government at Georgetown University.

Publications

Journal articles

• Gift, T. and Monten, J. (2020) ‘Who’s Out of Touch? Media Misperception of Public Opinion on U.S. Foreign Policy’, Foreign Policy Analysis, 17(1).
• Monten, J. and Plumb, R. I. (2020) ‘Is There an “Emboldenment” Effect? Evidence from the Insurgency in Iraq’, Journal of Strategic Studies, 45(4), pp. 615–636.
• Busby, J., Kafura, C., Monten, J. and Tama, J. (2020) ‘Multilateralism and the Use of Force: Experimental Evidence on the Views of Foreign Policy Elites’, Foreign Policy Analysis, 16(1), pp. 118–129.
• Monten, J. (2014) ‘Intervention and State-Building: Comparative Lessons From Japan, Iraq, and Afghanistan’, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 656(1), pp. 173–191.
• Downes, A. B. and Monten, J. (2013) ‘Forced to Be Free: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Rarely Leads to Democratization’, International Security, 37(4), pp. 90–131.
• Busby, J. and Monten, J. (2012) ‘Republican Elites and Foreign Policy Attitudes’, Political Science Quarterly, 127(1), pp. 105–142.
• Monten, J., and Wilson, J. L. (2011) ‘Does Kant Justify Liberal Intervention?’, The Review of Politics, 73(4), pp. 633–647.
• Bennett, A. and Monten, J. (2010) ‘Models of Crisis Decision Making and the 1990-91 Gulf War’, Security Studies, 19(3), pp. 486–520.
• Busby, J. and Monten, J. (2008) ‘Without Heirs? Assessing the Decline of Establishment Internationalism in U.S. Foreign Policy’, Perspectives on Politics, 6(3), pp. 451–472.
• Monten, J. (2007) ‘Primacy and Grand Strategy Beliefs in American Unilateralism’, Global Governance, 13(1), pp. 101–133.
• Monten, J. (2006) ‘Thucydides and Modern Realism’, International Studies Quarterly, 50(1), pp. 3–26.
• Monten, J. and Provost, M. (2005) ‘Theater Missile Defense and Japanese Nuclear Weapons’, Asian Security, 1(3), pp. 285–303.
• Monten, J. (2005) ‘The Roots of the Bush Doctrine: Power, Nationalism, and Democracy Promotion in U.S. Strategy’, International Security, 29(4), pp. 112–156.

Book chapters

• Busby, J. and Monten, J. (2018) ‘Has Liberal Internationalism Been Trumped?’, in R. Jervis, F. J. Gavin, J. Rovner, and D. Labrosse (eds.) Chaos in the Liberal Order: The Trump Presidency and International Politics in the 21st Century. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Downes, A. B. and Monten, J. (2018) ‘Does Spreading Democracy by Force Have a Place in U.S. Grand Strategy? A Skeptical View’, in A. T. Thrall and B. H. Friedman (eds.) U.S. Grand Strategy in the 21st Century: The Case for Restraint. New York: Routledge.
• Busby, J., Kafura, C., Monten, J., Smeltz, D. and Tama, J. (2017) ‘Foreign Policy Beliefs Among Leaders and the Public’, in J. M. McCormick (ed.) The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidence. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Other publications

• Monten, J., Busby, J., Kertzer, J. D., Smeltz, D. and Tama, J. (2020) ‘Americans Want to Engage the World: The Beltway and the Public Are Closer Than You Think’, Foreign Affairs Snapshot.
• Tama, J., Busby, J., Helm, B., Kafura, C., Kertzer, J. D., Monten, J. and Smeltz, D. (2020) ‘Coming Together or Coming Apart? Attitudes of Foreign Policy Opinion Leaders and the Public in the Trump Era’, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
• Busby, J., Friedhoff, K., Kafura, C., Monten, J. and Smeltz, D. (2017) ‘The Foreign Policy Establishment or Donald Trump: Which Better Reflects American Opinion?’, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
• Busby, J. and Monten, J. (2017) ‘Is Liberal Internationalism Still Alive?’, H-Diplo/ISSF Policy Roundtable.
• Busby, J., Kafura, C., Monten, J., Smeltz, D. and Tama, J. (2016) ‘How the Elite Misjudge the U.S. Electorate on International Engagement’,  RealClearWorld.
• Busby, J., Kafura, C., Monten, J., Smeltz, D. and Tama, J. (2015) ‘Measuring Up: How Elites and the Public See U.S. Foreign Policy’, Foreign Affairs Snapshot.
• Busby, J., Holyk, G., Kafura, C., Monten, J. and Smeltz, D. (2015) ‘United in Goals, Divided in Means: Opinion Leaders Survey Results’, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
• Monten, J. (2015) ‘Review of Just and Unjust Military Intervention: European Thinkers from Vitoria to Mill, by S. Recchia and J. M. Welsh (eds.)’, H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Reviews, 7(12).
• Busby, J., Inboden, W., Monten, J. and Tama, J. (2013) ‘Congress is Already Post-Partisan? Agreement Across the Aisle on U.S. Foreign Policy’, Foreign Affairs Snapshot.
• Monten, J. (2013) ‘Review Essay on Governing the World: The History of an Idea, by Mark Mazower’, H-Diplo/ISSF, Review Essay 18.
• Downes, A. B. and Monten, J. (2013) ‘Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Is Rarely a Path to Democracy’, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
• Busby, J., Inboden, W. and Monten, J. (2012) ‘American Foreign Policy Is Already Post-Partisan: Why Politics Does Stop at the Water’s Edge’, Foreign Affairs Snapshot.
• Busby, J., and Monten, J. (2011) ‘Off-Center: Misplaced Emphases in Debates about Liberal Internationalism’, H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable 2(4), pp. 6–14.

Teaching

I teach on ‘Theories of International Relations’, ‘International Security’, ‘Foreign Policy Analysis’ and ‘Big Books in Political Science’.