Event Date: February 5, 2010 - 12:00 pm
Location: Social Sciences Building, 120 Universi
A talk by Jason Lyall, Yale University.
Free. Registration is not required. This event will be in English.
Jason Lyall is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. He is also affiliated with the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) and the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. He is currently working on three projects: the sources of military effectiveness in conventional wars since 1800; how state violence affects public attitudes and insurgent violence in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Russia’s Northern Caucasus; and the impact of aid and public good provision on patterns of insurgent violence. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard’s Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, a Visiting Scholar at the European University at St. Petersburg, Russia, and is a Research Fellow at the Counterinsurgency Training Center in Afghanistan (CTC-A). He previously taught at Princeton University.