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Amber A. Díaz
Kenan Institute for Ethics
Duke University
102 West Duke Building
Box 90432
Durham, NC 27708-0432

 

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I am a Kenan Postdoctoral Fellow in the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. My work at KIE deals broadly with international ethics; specifically with human rights and refugee issues, from displacement to resettlement. My dissertation, "Bumbling, Bluffing, and Bald-Faced Lies: Mis-Leading and Domestic Audience Costs in International Relations," builds on the IR literature on domestic audience costs using the political psychology and moral philosophy literature on truth-telling and deception. Through historical case studies and a survey-based experiment, my research findings were that the American public responds with disapproval when it perceives that the president has used deception in justifying military action.