An interview with Allan Stam, dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy

On July 1, Allan Stam succeeded Harry Harding as dean of the Batten School. He previously served as director of the International Policy Center at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Stam’s academic work includes extensive research among sub-caste populations in India, as well as an analysis of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. His books include Win, Lose, or Draw (1996), Democracies at War (2002) and The Behavioral Origins of War (2004).