Episode 4.6: Why Democracies Fight Dictators with Dr. Madison Schramm

Welcome to winter and a new episode of Battle Rhythm. Co-hosts Linna Tam-Seto (Assistant Professor Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy within the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto) and Steve Saideman discuss high school recruitment gains for the Canadian Armed Forces as they pitch a more diverse force and plans for a big boost to numbers in the Reserves while welcoming you to attend our annual Year Ahead event in Ottawa, this year focusing on 7 years of research from the CDSN on topics of security, operations, military personnel and civil-military relations. For Today’s feature interview, co-host Wendy Wong interviews our former Capstone Scholar Madison Schramm about her new book Why Democracies Fight Dictators (Oxford University Press). Madison Schramm is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She specializes in international security, the domestic politics of foreign policy, and gender and foreign policy. She is particularly interested in leader psychology and conflict decision-making; and gender and leader selection and removal dynamics. She has published manuscripts exploring gender and conflict initiation (Security Studies), democratic constitutional systems and conflict (Political Science Quarterly; Journal of Global Security Studies), and diversity and inclusion in post-conflict states (book chapter, Untapped Power, Oxford University Press).