Rival Claims: Ethnic Violence and Territorial Autonomy under Indian Federalism
Monograph forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press.
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Welcome
I am an assistant professor at the University of Rochester Department of Political Science. My research is on civil and ethnic conflict, especially disputes over territorial autonomy and migration. I am also interested in public support for war, particularly counterinsurgency.
My book, Rival Claims: Ethnic Violence and Territorial Autonomy under Indian Federalism, is forthcoming from the University of Michigan. The book builds on my research on India's federal reorganization and on conflict in Northeast India.
Finally, I have studied conflict severity through work with the PRIO Battle Deaths Data project.
Research
Ethnic territorial conflict
Who opposes ethnic territorial autonomy? 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 ethnic cleansing. 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. pdf
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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
Autonomy and separatism in 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
Public support for war
War costs and public support for domestic counterinsurgency: Evidence from Thailand. 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
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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
Teaching
Graduate syllabi
PSC 562: Empirical Research Practicum (2015)
PSC 570: Civil Order and Civil Violence (2013)
Undergraduate syllabi
IR/PSC 252: Ethnic Politics (2015)
IR/PSC 265: Civil War and the International System (2012)
IR/PSC 276: The Politics of Insurgency and Terrorism (2012)
Contact information
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Address
Bethany Lacina
University of Rochester
322 Harkness Hall
PO Box 270146
Rochester, NY 14627-0146 -
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585-273-5840 -
Email
blacina@ur.rochester.edu
