The Contributors
- The Contributors
Iain McMenamin is a senior lecturer in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University. He is interested in most aspects of comparative politics and has published widely on topics including business-government relations, postcommunism, and comparative political economy, among others. He can be reached at iain.mcmenamin@dcu.ie.
Jacob N. Shapiro is an assistant professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University and codirector of the Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) Project. His research interests include terrorism and political violence, aid, and security policy. He is the corresponding author for this article and can be reached at jns@princeton.edu.
David A. Siegel is an assistant professor of political science at the Florida State University. He does research in several areas of collective action and political violence and is the coauthor of A Behavioral Theory of Elections (2011). He can be reached at dsiegel@fsu.edu.
Julian Wucherpfennig is a postdoctoral fellow at eth Zurich. His research focuses on modeling (strategic) interaction between relevant actors in conflict processes and has been published in various journals. He can be reached at wucherpfennig@icr.gess.ethz.ch.
Nils W. Metternich is a visiting assistant professor at Duke University. His research focuses on theoretical and empirical models of strategic behavior in armed conflicts, as well as predictive models of conflict and institutional change. He has an article forthcoming on conflict duration and ethnic support of rebel leader. He can be reached at nm86@duke.edu.
Lars-Erik Cederman is a professor of international conflict research at ETH Zurich. His main interests include computational and spatial modeling of macrohistorical processes featuring conflict, including nationalism, state formation, and democratization. He is the author of Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States Develop and Dissolve (1993), editor of Constructing Europe's Identity: The External Dimension (2001), and coeditor of New Systems Theories of World Politics (2010). His articles have appeared in numerous academic journals. He can be reached at lceder-man@ethz.ch.
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch is a professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex, and a research associate at the Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO. His research interests include conflict and cooperation, democratization, and spatial dimensions of social and political processes. He is the author of All International Politics Is Local: The Diffusion of Conflict, Integration, and Democratization (2002) and Spatial Regression Models (2008), as well as numerous journal articles. He can be reached at ksg@essex.ac.uk.
Daniel Corstange is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland. His research interests include ethnic and religious politics. He is completing a book manuscript on ethnic politics and clientelism in the Middle East. He can be reached at daniel.corstange@gmail.com.
Yonatan L. Morse is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. His research focuses on electoral authoritarianism and democratic transitions, with a regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. His dissertation compares the variant electoral authoritarian trajectories of formerly single-party regimes in Africa. He can be reached at yonimorse@hotmail.com. [End Page ii]
