Daina CHIBA 千葉大奈

Associate Professor

Program Coordinator, Bachelor of Social Sciences in Government and Public Administration

Contact Information

Tel: +853 8822 8962
Office: Room 4023, Humanities and Social Sciences Building (E21B)
E-mail: dchiba@um.edu.mo

Personal Website

Academic Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Political Science, Rice University, USA (2012)
  • LL.M., Hitotsubashi University, Japan (2004)
  • B.A., Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan (2002)

Research Interests

  • International Security
  • International Institutions
  • Quantitative Methods

Selected Publications and Papers

  • Songying Fang, Xiaojun Li, Atsushi Tago, and Daina Chiba. Forthcoming. Belief in Territorial Indivisibility and Public Preference for Dispute Resolution. Political Science Research and Methods.
  • Daina Chiba and Jesse C. Johnson. 2019. Military Coalitions and Crisis Duration. Journal of Politics, 81 (4), pp.1466-1479.
  • Daina Chiba and Tobias Heinrich. 2019. Colonial Legacy and Foreign Aid: Decomposing the Colonial Bias. International Interactions, 45 (3), pp. 474-499.
  • Daina Chiba and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. 2017. The Shape of Things to Come? Expanding the Inequality and Grievance Model of Civil War with Event Data. Journal of Peace Research 54 (2), pp.275-297.
  • Daina Chiba, Jesse C. Johnson, and Brett Ashley Leeds. 2015. Careful Commitments: Democratic States and Alliance Design. Journal of Politics, 77 (4), pp.968–982.
  • Daina Chiba, Nils W. Metternich, and Michael D. Ward. 2015. Every Story Has A Beginning, Middle, and An End (But Not Always in That Order): Predicting Duration Dynamics in a Unified Framework. Political Science Research and Methods, 3(3), pp. 515–541.
  • Daina Chiba, Lanny Martin, and Randolph Stevenson. 2015. A Copula Approach to the Problem of Selection Bias in Models of Government Survival. Political Analysis, 23(1), pp. 42–58.
  • Daina Chiba, Carla Martinez Machain, and William Reed. 2014. Major Powers and Militarized Conflict. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 58 (6), pp. 976–1002.
  • Daina Chiba and Songying Fang. 2014. Institutional Opposition, Regime Accountability, and International Conflict. Journal of Politics, 76 (3), pp. 798–813.
  • William Reed and Daina Chiba. 2010. Decomposing the Relationship Between Contiguity and Militarized Conflict. American Journal of Political Science, 54 (1), pp. 61–73.

Biography

Daina CHIBA is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of Government and Public Administration at the University of Macau. Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Essex, United Kingdom. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Rice University, USA, an LL.M. from Hitotsubashi University, and a B.A. from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

His research interests lie at the intersection of data science and international politics. He studies conflict and cooperation among political actors using quantitative methods. His work has appeared in various academic journals, including American Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, Journal of Politics, Journal of Peace Research, and Journal of Conflict Resolution.