MIT, PhD '10

Paul Staniland is Professor of Political Science. He is also a nonresident scholar in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Staniland’s research focuses on political violence and international security, with a regional focus on South and Southeast Asia. His first book, Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse, was published by Cornell University Press in 2014. His second book, Ordering Violence: Explaining Armed Group-State Relations from Conflict to Cooperation, was published by Cornell in 2021. 

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