Background
Benjamin Oliver Fordham was born on July 9, 1966, in Houston, Texas, United States, to Benjamin Oliver and Ann Edwards Fordham.
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In 1988, Fordham received Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
In 1990, Fordham received Master of Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and then Ph.D. in 1994.
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In 1950, the U.S. military budget more than tripled while plans for a national health care system and other new social welfare programs disappeared from the agenda. At the same time, the official campaign against the influence of radicals in American life reached new heights. Benjamin Fordham suggests that these domestic and foreign policy outcomes are closely related. The Truman administration's efforts to fund its ambitious and expensive foreign policy required it to sacrifice much of its domestic agenda and acquiesce to conservative demands for a campaign against radicals in the labor movement and elsewhere.
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1998
Benjamin Oliver Fordham was born on July 9, 1966, in Houston, Texas, United States, to Benjamin Oliver and Ann Edwards Fordham.
In 1988, Fordham received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. In 1990, he received a Master of Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and then Ph.D. in 1994.
From 1993 to 1994, Fordham was a visiting instructor in political science at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Then, from 1994 to 1995, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Triangle Institute for Security Studies in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. From 1995 to 1996, he was also a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. In 1996, Fordham was an assistant professor of political science at the State University of New York in Albany, New York, and then, in 1997, he was a speaker at colleges and universities at Texas A & M University in Texas, United States.
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1998Fordham's research focuses on the domestic political and economic origins of foreign policy. He is interested in the development of foreign policy goals and in the sources of political support for (and opposition to) conflicting policy alternatives. Although international events and conditions influence foreign policy choices, all actors within a given state are unlikely to understand them in the same way. Where one perceives a serious threat to the national interest, another may see little more than a potential waste of national resources best used for other domestic or international purposes. Conflict and bargaining among these domestic political factions can produce outcomes that are hard to understand if the state is treated as a unitary rational actor.
Moreover, differences in the implications of the international environment can make it difficult even to specify ‘international influences’ on foreign policy choices without knowing the identity and interests of the domestic actor in question. Methodologically, Fordham believes the quality of research can be improved by thoughtfully employing statistical analysis alongside qualitative research methods such as the examination of primary historical sources. He employed this combination of methods in his book and will continue to do so where possible in future work.
Fordham is a member of the International Studies Association and of the American Political Science Association.
On May 20, 2000, Benjamin married Jennifer Maria Jense.