Nativism and Economic Integration Across the Developing World: Collision and Accommodation
With Rikhil Bhavnani. 2018. Cambridge University Press, 2018
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Welcome
I am an associate professor at the University of Rochester Department of Political Science. I am an expert in civil and ethnic conflict, especially disputes over territorial autonomy.
My first book, Rival Claims: Ethnic Violence and Territorial Autonomy under Indian Federalism, is available from the University of Michigan. Rikhil Bhavnani and I study the backlash against migration within the developing world in Nativism and Economic Integration Across the Developing World, published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press.
I analyzed Star Wars fan Twitter for the Washington Post. The article is here. Additional details about what I did are here. A bonus analysis of Solo: A Star Wars Story performance by media market is here.
My research has also touched on public support for war and war costs, especially through my work with the PRIO Battle Deaths Data project.
Books
Rival Claims: Ethnic Violence and Territorial Autonomy under Indian Federalism
University of Michigan Press, 2017
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Articles and ongoing research
Ethnic territorial conflict
When does regional autonomy prevent separatist conflict? pdf
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Opposition to ethnic territorial autonomy in the Indian parliament pdf
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Periphery versus periphery: The stakes of separatist war. Journal of Politics, 2015. pdf | data at JOP Dataverse
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How governments shape the risk of civil violence: India's federal reorganization, 1950-56. American Journal of Political Science, 2014. pdf | data at AJPS Dataverse
Migration and sons of the soil politics
Shared territory, regime alignment, and forced migration. With Karen Albert and Emily VanMeter. pdf
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Fiscal federalism at work? Central responses to internal migration in India. With Rikhil Bhavnani. World Development, 2017. pdf | data
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The effects of weather-induced migration on sons of the soil violence in India. With Rikhil Bhavnani. World Politics, 2015. pdf | data
Pop culture and politics
Who hates Star Wars for its newfound diversity? Here are the numbers. Washington Post, 2018. Article | Additional information (pdf)
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Solo: A Star Wars Story performance by media market. pdf
Public support for war
Military losses and public support for domestic counterinsurgency. pdf
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Culture clash or democratic peace? Results of a survey experiment on the effect of religious culture and regime type on foreign policy opinion formation. With Charlotte Lee. Foreign Policy Analysis, 2013. pdf | data
Northeast India
India’s stabilizing segment states. Ethnopolitics, 2014. pdf
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The problem of political stability in Northeast India: Local ethnic autocracy and the rule of law. Asian Survey, 2009. pdf
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Does counterinsurgency theory apply in Northeast India? India Review, 2007. pdf
Conflict severity
The waning of war is real: A response to Gohdes and Price. With Nils Petter Gleditsch. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2013. pdf | data
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Explaining the severity of civil wars. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2006. pdf | data
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The declining risk of death in battle. With Bruce Russett and Nils Petter Gleditsch. International Studies Quarterly, 2006. pdf | data at ISQ Dataverse
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Monitoring trends in global combat: A new dataset of battle deaths. With Nils Petter Gleditsch. European Journal of Population, 2005. pdf | data on PRIO website
Other research
Conflicts over shared rivers: Resource wars or fuzzy boundaries? With Nils Petter Gleditsch, Kathryn Furlong, Håvard Hegre, and Taylor Owen. Political Geography, 2006. pdf | data on PRIO website
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From side show to centre stage: Civil conflict after the Cold War. Security Dialogue, 2004. pdf
Courses
Graduate syllabi
PSC 480: Scope of Political Science (2018)
PSC 572: International Relations Field Seminar (2017)
PSC 570: Civil Order and Civil Violence (2013)
Undergraduate syllabi
IR/PSC 252: Ethnic Politics (2018)
IR/PSC 265: Civil War and the International System (2017)
IR/PSC 276: The Politics of Insurgency and Terrorism (2016)