Paul R. Hensel

Professor of Political Science
University of North Texas

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• Teaching Schedule
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• Recent Changes

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• About Me

Paul R. Hensel

Department of Political Science University of North Texas 1155 Union Circle #305340 Denton, TX 76203-5017

Office: 165 Wooten Hall phensel@unt.edu https://www.paulhensel.org

Teaching Schedule

Fall 2024:

• PSCI 3300.003: "Political Science Research Methods" (MWF 12-12:50, 121 WH)
• PSCI 4821.001: "International Conflict" (MWF 9-9:50, 355 Sage)
• Office Hours (165 Wooten Hall): M 1-2:30 PM, Th 10:30 AM-Noon

Spring 2025:

• PSCI 2306.001: U.S. and Texas Government (MWF 10-10:50, 116 Sage)
• PSCI 6830.001: International Conflict [graduate-level] (M 2-4:50, 111 WH)

Summer 2025:

• I will not be teaching in the summer, but I will be around Denton for most of the summer. Please email me if you need to set up a meeting.

Fall 2025 (tentative):

• PSCI 3300: "Political Science Research Methods"
• PSCI 3810: "Introduction to International Relations"

Spring 2026 (tentative):

• PSCI 4821: "International Conflict"
• (only one course scheduled due to my duties as co-graduate director)

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Site Index

Me and My Research

• About Me
• Curriculum Vitae
  • Research
• Issue Correlates of War (ICOW) Project
  • Quarterly and Annual Reviews
  • Main ICOW data sets:
    • Territorial Claims
    • River Claims
    • Maritime Claims
    • Identity Claims
  • Supplementary data sets:
    • Colonial History
    • Historical State Names
    • Multilateral Treaties of Pacific Settlement (MTOPS)
    • Non-State Actor List

My Teaching

• Undergraduate courses:
  • PSCI 2306: "U.S. and Texas Government" (formerly PSCI 1040)
    • Additional online resources
  • PSCI 3300: "Political Science Research Methods" (formerly PSCI 2300)
    • SPSS (and PSPP) Guide
    • Additional online resources
  • PSCI 3810: "Introduction to International Relations"
    • Additional online resources
  • PSCI 4828: "Geography, History, and International Relations" (formerly PSCI 4820)
    • Additional online resources
  • PSCI 4821: "International Conflict"
    • Additional online resources
  • INR 3603: "Theories of International Relations" (not taught at UNT - this is an old syllabus I used at FSU)
  • POS 3931: "Broward Hall Seminar in International Affairs" (not taught at UNT - this is an old syllabus I used at FSU)
• Graduate courses:
  • PSCI 6830: "International Conflict" (formerly PSCI 5830)
  • PSCI 6832: "Contexts and International Relations"
  • PSCI 5810: "Proseminar in International Relations" (not taught at UNT - this is an old syllabus I used at FSU)
  • PSCI 5340: "Political Science Scope and Methods" (not taught at UNT - this is an old syllabus I used at FSU)
• Political Science Resources
• Teaching Policies
  • Grading Policies and Expectations
    • Exam, Quiz, and Paper Tips
    • Citations and Plagiarism
    • Using and Evaluating Internet Resources
    • Research Paper Sources
  • Writing Tips
    • Common Writing Problems
    • Powers' Pointers
    • Spellchecker Humor
    • Grammar Humor

Academic and Reference Pages

• The material that used to be in my substantive pages (e.g. separate pages on American politics, international organizations, or political methodology) has been moved to the "Additional online resources" pages for my undergraduate courses, above. These pages were not visited very often when they were maintained separately, and this allows their contents to be more useful for my students.
• International Relations Data
  • International Data (General)
  • International Conflict and Cooperation Data
  • International Economic Data
  • International Environmental Data
  • International Political Data
  • International Social Data
  • "Review of Available Data Sets" (Internet appendix for ISA Compendium chapter)
• Online News Sources
  • U.S. and Canadian Newspapers
  • Latin American Newspapers
  • European Newspapers
  • African and Middle Eastern Newspapers
  • Asian and Oceanian Newspapers
• Reference Materials
  • Atlases, Maps, and Interactive Geography Tools
  • HTML Resources

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Notable Recent Changes to Site

Teaching: Added final Spring 2025 teaching schedule and tentative 2025-26 teaching schedules (November 2024).

My Research: Added 2023 ISA paper on colonial legacies and territorial claims, 2021 APSA paper on identity claims under the territorial integrity norm, and 2020 PSSI/2021 ISA paper on deterrence in identity claims.

My Data: Added announcement about 2019 J. David Singer Data Innovation Award to relevant pages (Fall 2019). Added ICOW quarterly and annual reviews page (May 2019). Released version 1.30 of the ICOW Historical State Names data (November 2018), version 1.10 of the ICOW Colonial History data (November 2018), and version 1.02 of the ICOW Territorial Claims data (December 2016). Updated the ICOW General Coding Manual to reflect the addition of identity claims, ICOW River Claims Coding Manual to improve the discussion of dams using the ICOLD data, and released the initial version of the ICOW Identity Claims Coding Manual; and updated the ICOW Non-State Actors List to include actors involved in recently coded settlement attempts (December 2018).

Other: Verified links in the newspaper pages (January 2020). Added a privacy policy page to explain use of cookies (December 2019). Updated all site code from HTML 4.1 to full HTML5 compliance, added a SSL certificate so the site can use the more secure HTTPS rather than standard HTTP, and merged a number of substantive poli sci pages (most of which received few visitors per year anyway) into course-related pages where their material will be more useful (Summer 2018).

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