Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Mississippi State University
Biography
Bejamin Tkach is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the Mississippi State University. His primary research agenda investigates government decentralization, security privatization, and non-state actors' involvement in conflict processes. He adopts a broad theoretical conceptualization of government decentralization that encompasses governance at multiple levels (national and international) and conceptualizes decentralization as shifts from public to private provision of security.
His research has been supported by Mississippi State University's ORED/OIDI Research to Advance Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access, Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Joint Special Operations University, and the United States Agency for International Development.
Tkach received my Ph.D. in Political Science from Texas A&M University and a B.A. in Political Science from Whitworth University.