The Contributors
- The Contributors
Wendy Hunter is a professor of government at the university of texas–austin. Her recent scholarship has focused on social protection in latin america. the author of The Transformation of the Workers’ Party in Brazil, 1989–2009 (2010) and Eroding Military Influence in Brazil: Politicians against Soldiers (1997), Hunter’s current book project is on the rise of the birth certificate and other forms of documentation in the developing world. she can be reached at wendy-hunter@austin.utexas.edu.
Robert Brill is an analyst for the tmf Health Quality institute in austin, texas. He has studied the effects of birth registration on child protection in Brazil, the united states, and south africa. He received master’s degrees from the university of texas at austin’s lozano long institute of latin american studies and lyndon B. Johnson school of public affairs. He can be reached at robbybrill@gmail.com.
Tomila V. Lankina is an associate professor in the department of international relations at the london school of economics and political science. Her recent research focuses on comparative subnational democracy and authoritarianism, mass protests, and historical patterns of human capital and democratic reproduction in india, russia, and other states. she is the author of Governing the Locals: Local Self-Government and Ethnic Mobilization in Russia (2006), and the coauthor, with anneke Hudalla and Hellmut Wollman, of Local Governance in Central and Eastern Europe (2008). she can be reached at t.lankina@lse.ac.uk.
Alexander Libman is an associate in the research division of the german institute for international and security affairs (stiftung Wissenschaft und politik), Berlin, and an associate research fellow at the international center for the study of institutions and development at the national research university Higher school of economics, Moscow. His research focuses on subnational politics in russia and regionalism and regional organizations in post-soviet eurasia. His books include Eurasian Integration: Challenges of Transcontinental Regionalism, coauthored with evgeny Vinokurov (2012); Autocratic and Democratic External Influences in Post-Soviet Eurasia, coedited with anastassia obydenkova (2015); and Causes and Consequences of Democratization: The Regions of Russia, coauthored with obydenkova (2015). He can be reached at alexander.libman@swp-berlin.org.
Anastassia Obydenkova is a regional fellow at the davis center for russian and eurasian studies, Harvard university, and a senior researcher in the laboratory of applied studies of institutions and social capital at the national research university Higher school of economics, Moscow. Her research interests include comparative politics and international relations, democratization, nondemocratic regimes and autocracies, corruption, regionalism, international organizations, foreign policy of post-soviet states, energy dialogue, and eurasia, and she has published widely. she is the coeditor of Autocratic and Democratic External Influences in Post-Soviet Eurasia, with alexander libman (2015); the coauthor of Causes and Consequences of Democratization: The Regions of Russia, with libman (2015); and the author of Democratization, Regionalization and Europeanization in Russia: Interplay of National and Transnational Factors (2008). she can be reached at aobydenkova@fas.harvard.edu.
Ceren Belge is an associate professor of political science at concordia university. Her research interests include nationalism and ethnic conflict, the politics of law and courts, and gender politics, with an area specialization in turkey and the Middle east. she can be reached at ceren. belge@concordia.ca. [End Page 1]
David E. Cunningham is an associate professor in the department of government and politics at the university of Maryland. He is also an affiliate of the peace research institute oslo. cunningham’s research focuses on civil war, conflict bargaining, conflict management, and international security. His book, Barriers to Peace in Civil War, was published in 2011. He can be reached at dacunnin@umd.edu.
Allan Dafoe is an assistant professor of political science at Yale university. He studies the causes of war, specifically the role of reputation and honor, as well as social science methodology. He can be reached at allan.dafoe@yale.edu.
Devin Caughey is an assistant professor of political science at the Massachusetts institute of technology. His research focuses on american politics, often from a historical perspective, with an additional interest...
