Elizabeth P. Coughlan

Ph.D., Indiana University, 1993
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Salem State College
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
Department of Political Science
Salem State College
352 Lafayette Street
Salem, MA 01970
978.542.7296
elizabeth.coughlan@salemstate.edu

Research Interests
Development and diffusion of socialism as a political ideal in the 20th century, Central and East European security issues, European Union expansion to Central and Eastern Europe, Polish military affairs.

Current Projects
Research on the effects of EU accession on Polish policy decision-making; European social democratic parties.

Selected Publications
"Polish Peculiarities? Military Loyalty during the 1980-81 Solidarity Crisis," The Carl Beck Papers, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh (October, 1999).

"Democratizing Civilian Control: The Polish Case," Armed Forces and Society, volume 24, number 4, Summer 1998.

"Dilemmas of Democratization in Poland: Who Controls the Military" in Andre Liebich, ed. Dilemmas of Democratization After Communism, Studies and Working Papers Series, Geneva: Graduate Institute of International Studies, 1997.