Laia Balcells
Associate Professor
Political Science
Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)
Spain
Biography
Laia Balcells (Yale PhD, 2010) is Associate Professor at Georgetown University (USA). Her research explores the causes and consequences of political violence and civil wars, warfare dynamics during conflict, and redistribution and conflict. She has published in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, Politics & Society, and Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, among other journals. She has been recipient of the APSA Luebbert Prize for Best Article in Comparative Politics and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Research grant. Her first book, entitled Rivalry and Revenge: the Politics of Violence during Civil War is coming out with Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) in 2017.
Research Interest
Politics
Publications
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Balcells, Laia; Daniels, Lesley-Ann; Escribà -Folch, Abel.2016The Determinants of Low-intensity Intergroup Violence. The Case of Northern Ireland.Journal of Peace Research,53:33-48. **Honorable Mention. 2015 Best Paper Award. Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association.
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Balcells, Laia; Steele, Abbey.2016Warfare, Political Identities, and Displacement in Spain and ColombiaPolitical Geography,51:15-29
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Balcells, Laia2017Rivalry and Revenge: the Politics of Violence during Civil WarNew York:Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
