research

I consider my research agenda as an arc that began with wartime violence that continues now on how actors attempt to establish political order and build peace. In my first book, I showed how institutions shaped the behavior of both armed groups and civilians to explain how political cleansing became a feature of the Colombian civil war. Now I study the effects of that violence by focusing on civilian resettlement, peacebuilding and state-building.

Book

2017. Democracy and Displacement in Colombia’s Civil War. Cornell University Press.

Journal Articles

2019. “Civilian Resettlement Patterns in Civil Wars.” Journal of Peace Research. Special Issue on Refugees, Forced Migration, and Conflict.
2018. “Endogenous Taxation in Ongoing Internal Conflicts: The Case of Colombia,” with Rafael Ch, Jacob N. Shapiro, and Juan F. Vargas. American Political Science Review.
2018. “Democracy and Civil War: The Case of Colombia,” with Livia I. Schubiger. Conflict Management and Peace Science.
2018. “IDP Resettlement and Collective Targeting during Civil War: Evidence from Colombia.” Journal of Peace Research.
2017. “Constraining the Samurai: Rebellion and Taxation in Early Modern Japan,” with Christopher Paik and Seiki Tanaka. International Studies Quarterly.
2017. “Subcontracting State-building.” with Jacob N. Shapiro. Small Wars and Insurgencies.
2016. “Warfare, Political Identities, and Displacement in Spain and Colombia,” with Laia Balcells. Political Geography.
2015. “True Believers, Deserters, and Traitors: Who Leaves Insurgent Groups and Why,” with Ben Oppenheim, Juan F. Vargas and Michael Weintraub. Journal of Conflict Resolution.
2011. “Electing Displacement: Political Cleansing in Apartadó, Colombia.” Journal of Conflict Resolution.
2009. “Seeking Safety: Displacement and Targeting in Civil Wars.” Journal of Peace Research. Vol 46, No. 3. 419-430.
2008. “Moving Targets: Mixing Methods to Uncover Dynamics of Displacement in Civil Wars.” Qualitative Methods. Spring. pp 23-26.

Under review & In progress

2019. “Civil War Victimization, Political Engagement, and Attitudes towards Peace,” with Helga Malmin Binningsbø, Marianne Dahl, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, and Michael Weintraub.
2018. “The Subnational State: A Typology for Cross-National Comparison,” with Imke Harbers. Revise & resubmit at Latin American Politics and Society.
2017. “Illicit Behavior and the Foundations of State-building in Colombia,” with Rafael Ch, Jacob N. Shapiro, and Juan F. Vargas. Working paper.
2012. “State-building, Counterinsurgency, and Development in Colombia,” with Jacob N. Shapiro. Presented at the Nuevas Perspectivas sobre la Violencia conference, Universidad de los Andes and Harvard University, Bogotá, May.
2011. “Armed Group Defection in Civil War,” with Sarah Zukerman Daly. Prepared for the Annual American Political Science Association Conference, Seattle. August 24.
2010. Overview of Demobilization, Disarmament, and Reintegration Programs and Amnesty/Justice Legal Framework in Colombia
2007. “Massive Civilian Displacement in Civil War: Assessing Variation in Colombia.” Households in Conflict Working Paper 29.
2007. “Settlement and Sovereignty: Rethinking State-building and War,” with Ryan Sheely. Paper prepared for the Annual Convention of the American Political Science Association. Chicago, IL.

Book Chapters

2006. “Insecurity and Opportunity in Colombia: Linking Civil War and Human Trafficking,” in Karen Beeks and Delila Amir, Eds., Trafficking & the Global Sex Industry. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, Inc. pp 77-93.

Book Reviews

Forthcoming. “Borderlands.” Review of Borderland Battles: Violence, Crime and Governance at the Edges of Colombia’s War (Oxford) by Annette Idler. Perspectives on Politics.
2019. “The Strength of the Weapons of the Weak.” Review of Resisting War: How Communities Protect Themselves (Cambridge) by Oliver Kaplan. International Studies Review.
2010. Comparative Political Studies. Review of John A. Booth and Mitchell Seligson. 2009. The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America: Political Support and Democracy in Eight Nations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.