Dissertation
Leviathan in the Tropics? Environment, State Capacity, and Civil Conflict in the Developing World
Dissertation Committee: Kristian Gleditsch and Stephan Haggard (co-chairs), Gary Cox, Clark Gibson, Barbara Walter, Eli Berman (Economics)
Publications
Forthcoming. Measuring State Capacity: Theoretical and Empirical Implications for the Study of Civil Conflict. Journal of Peace Research.
2007. Trends and Triggers: Climate, Climate Change and Civil Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Sarah M. Glaser). Political Geography, 26 (6): 695-715.
Book Chapters
2007. Zimbabwe (with Idean Salehyan). For Uk Heo and Karl deRouen (eds.), Civil Wars of the World: Major Conflicts since World War II. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
Under Review
Leviathan in the Tropics: Geography, Bargaining, and State Extractive Capacity (UPDATED 10/7).
Head for the Hills? Geography, State Capacity, and Civil Conflict (UPDATED 7/31).
Are Beholden Rulers Enlightened Rulers? Uniting Democratic and Fiscal Perspectives on Infant Mortality.
(Revise and resubmit, International Studies Quarterly)
Grievance and Opportunity: Food Prices, Political Regimes, and Protest (with Stephan Haggard and Beatriz Magaloni).
Conference Papers and Presentations
2009. Grievance and Opportunity: Food Prices, Political Regime, and Protest (with Stephan Haggard and Beatriz Magaloni). Presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, New York, NY, February 15-18.
2009. Beating Fishhooks into Spears? Civil Conflict, Crowding-Out Effects and Marine Fisheries, 1951-2004. Presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, New York, NY, February 15-18, and the Texas International Relations Triangle Conference, Houston, TX, January 30.
2008. Taxation in the Tropics: Geography and the Fiscal Contract. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 27-31.
2008. Beating fishhooks into spears? Civil conflict, crowding-out effects and marine fisheries, 1950-2005. Paper presented at the FAO/GLOBEC Coping with Change in Marine Socio-Ecological Systems Symposium, Rome, Italy, July 7-11.
2008. Head for the Hills or This Hard Land? Geography, State Capacity, and Civil Conflict. Presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, March 22-25.
2007. The Smoking Gun? Climate Change, Interannual Resource Variability and Conflict in Africa. Presented at the Zentrum für Marine Umweltwissenschaften (MARUM) workshop on Response of North African Ecosystems to Abrupt Climate Change, Bremen, Germany, November 14-16.
2006. Trends and Triggers: Climate, Climate Change and Civil Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Sarah M. Glaser). Presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, San Diego, CA, March 22-25.
2006. “Head for the Hills!” or “This Hard Land?” The Direct and Indirect Effects of Rough Terrain on Civil Conflict Onset. Presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, San Diego, CA, March 22-25.
2005. Trends and Triggers: Climate, Climate Change and Civil Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Sarah M. Glaser). Presented at the annual meeting of the European Consortium for Political Research, Budapest, Hungary, September 8-10.
2005. Are Beholden Despots Enlightened Despots? Uniting Democratic and Fiscal Perspectives on Public Goods Provision. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, Sept 1-4.
2005. Trends and Triggers: Climate, Climate Change and Civil Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Sarah M. Glaser). Presented at the International Workshop on Human Security and Climate Change, Oslo, Norway, June 21-23.
2005. Estimating the Direct and Indirect Effects of Rough Terrain on Civil Conflict Onset. Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 7-10.
2003. Multipartism, Agenda Rules and Oversize Coalitions in the 58th Mexican Chamber of Deputies. Presented at the 24th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, Texas March 29.
Works in Progress
International Food Prices and Protest (with Stephan Haggard and Beatriz Magaloni).
Beating fishhooks into spears? Civil conflict, crowding-out effects and marine fisheries, 1951-2004 (with Sarah M. Glaser).
What We Talk About When We Talk About State Capacity: A Factor Analysis Perspective on State Capacity and Civil War.
The Rain in Spain Falls Mainly on the Plain: Local Analyses of Rainfall, Growth, and Conflict (with Kristian Skrede Gleditsch and Peter Sandholt Jensen).
Book Reviews
Journal of Peace Research: The New Wars, Herfried Munkler; Bare Branches: The SecurityImplications of Asi a’s Surplus Male Population, Valerie M. Hudson and Andrea M. DenBoer; Young Soldiers: Why They Choose to Fight, Rachel Brett and Irma Specht.
