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Jarrod Hayes is an assistant professor of international relations at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2003 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in astrophysics and political science. He completed his Ph.D. in Politics and International Relations at the University of Southern California in 2009. Prior to joining the Georgia Tech faculty, he was the ConocoPhillips Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Oklahoma. His areas of scholarly and teaching interest focus on the role of social orders in shaping international security and environmental practice. This has allowed him to investigate a wide range of issues, from U.S. relations with India and China to the role of security discourses in climate change policy to the relationship between theory and practice. His scholarship appears in the European Journal of International Relations, Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography, German Studies Review, Global Environmental Politics, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, and Security Studies. Cambridge University Press published his first book, examining U.S. security relations with India and China, in 2013. He is married to Janelle Knox-Hayes, who is on the faculty of MIT in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.