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I am an assistant professor at the University of Rochester Department of Political Science. I study civil and ethnic conflict, especially disputes over territorial autonomy and migration. My first book, Rival Claims: Ethnic Violence and Territorial Autonomy under Indian Federalism, is available from the University of Michigan.

I am also interested in public support for war, particularly counterinsurgency. I cataloged the costs of war through work with the PRIO Battle Deaths Data project.

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Books

Rival Claims: Ethnic Violence and Territorial Autonomy under Indian Federalism

Published in 2017 by University of Michigan Press.

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Table of contents and foreword (pdf)

Nativism and Economic Integration: Two Forces on a Collision Course in the Developing World

With Rikhil Bhavnani. Under contract at Cambridge University Press.

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Proposal (pdf)

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Articles

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

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

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

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