Matthew Clary is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and has been at Auburn for 8 years. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in international relations and comparative politics, specializing in courses on national security policy, American foreign policy, Russian foreign policy, strategic intelligence and intelligence studies, East Asian political systems and geopolitics, and advanced political simulations. His research specializes in international security and foreign policy, with a central focus on the reputational processes by which nation-states become designated as 'pariahs' or 'rogues' and how they may become rehabilitated into the international community and on crisis dynamics in US-China relations. He is also interested in democratization processes in other nations and how such changes influence national reputations in the international system. Finally, he is interested in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), with primary attention paid to the use of simulations and role-playing to enhance the undergraduate learning experience.