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Alex Braithwaite's research and teaching focus upon the causes and contagion of violent and nonviolent conflict, including terrorism, protests, riots, civil war, and international wars. He is also very much interested in forced migration and refugee flows, the location of refugee and concentration camps, and border politics.Show Less
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Courses
- GSSFTGovernance, Security, State Formation and Terrorism
- HTEHow Terrorism Ends
- IIRIntroduction to International Relations
- TCTerrorism and Counterterrorism
- IRInternational Relations
- DCWPDiffusion and Contagion in World Politics
- IRPImmigration and Refugee Policy
Grants
- Enhancing the Evidence for Humanitarian Action in the Face of Climate Change
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$1000.0K
Active - Concentration Camp Systems: Data Collection and Dissemination
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$362.3K
Active - Analyzing Migration Patterns from Central America Using Natural Language and Machine Learning
Co-Investigator (COI)
2020
$660.0K
Active - Refugee Flows and Instability
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$1.4M
- Aid, Conflict, and the Movement of IPDs and Refugees Conference
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$12.0K
- Identifying and explaining (hot spots of) the location of development assistance commitments.
Principal Investigator (PI)
2014
$1.8K
News
- Analyzing Migration Patterns From Central America
2020
- Cybersecurity Means Job Security
2018
- UA Downtown Series to Focus on Issues of Truth and Trust
2017
- UA-Led Team Analyzes Refugee Tipping Points
2017
- UA Researchers Available for Comment on Shootings
2016
Publications (49)
Recent
- Why Do Leaders Build Walls? Domestic Politics, Leader Survival, and The Fortification of Borders
2022
- Government Targeting of Refugees in the Midst of Epidemics
2022
- The Journey Home: Violence, Anchoring, and Refugee Decisions to Return
2021
- Under Pressure: When Refugees Feel Pressured to Leave Their Host Countries
2021
- Should I stay or should I go? The decision to flee or stay home during civil war
2021
- Do Walls Work? The Effectiveness of Border Barriers in Containing the Cross-Border Spread of Violent Militancy
2020
- Violence and the Perception of Risk Associated with Hosting Refugees
2019
- The exacerbating effect of police presence: A multivariate point process analysis of the Naxal conflict
2019
- Violence, displacement, contact, and attitudes towards hosting refugees
2019
- The local geography of transnational terrorism
2019
- Spatial interaction and security: A review and case study of the Syrian refugee crisis
2019
- Refugees, forced migration, and conflict: Introduction to the special issue
2018
- Female combatants, forced recruitment, and civil conflict outcomes:
2018
- Expanding the Empirical Study of Actors and Tactics in Research on Nonviolent Resistance
2018
- The impact of foreign fighters on civil conflict outcomes
2017
- Ballots, Bans, and Bombs: Terrorism, Spoiling, and the Quality of Elections
2017
- Civil Conflicts Abroad, Foreign Fighters, and Terrorism at Home
2017
- Erratum to: Locating foreign aid commitments in response to political violence
2017
- Does the presence of foreign troops affect stability in the host country?
2017
- Restricting Opposition in Elections and Terrorist Violence
2017
- Female combatants and the outcome of civil conflicts
2017
- Potential uses of numerical simulation for the modelling of civil conflict
2017
- Locating Foreign Aid Commitments in Response to Political Violence
2016
- The Battle for Baghdad: Testing Hypotheses About Insurgency From Risk Heterogeneity, Repeat Victimization, and Denial Policing Approaches.
2015
- Transnational Terrorism as an Unintended Consequence of a Military Footprint
2015
- The Conditioning Effect of Protest History on the Emulation of Nonviolent Conflict
2015
- Does poverty cause conflict? Isolating the causal origins of the conflict trap
2014
- The Battle for Baghdad: Testing Hypotheses About Insurgency From Risk Heterogeneity, Repeat Victimization, and Denial Policing Approaches
2014
- The Costs of Domestic Political Unrest.
2014
- Geographic Patterns of Diffusion in the 2011 London Riots.
2013
- Autocratic Regimes and Civil Conflict Contagion
2013
- There Can Be No Compromise: Institutional Inclusiveness, Fractionalization, and Domestic Terrorism.
2013
- Spatial Patterns in the 2011 London Riots
2013
- TARGET CHOICE DURING EXTREME EVENTS: A DISCRETE SPATIAL CHOICE MODEL OF THE 2011 LONDON RIOTS
2013
- Geographic Proximity and Third Party Joiners in Militarized Interstate Disputes
2013
- The Logic of Public Fear in Terrorism and Counterterrorism.
2013
- Target Choice during Extreme Events: A Discrete Spatial Choice Model of the 2011 London Riots.
2013
- Dangerous Neighbours, Regional Territorial Conflict, and the Democratic Peace.
2013
- Space–Time Modeling of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Iraq
2012
- Understanding Life in the Borderlands: Boundaries in Depth and Motion . Edited by I. William Zartman. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2010. 256p. $69.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.
2011
- MIDLOC: Introducing the Militarized Interstate Dispute Location dataset:
2010
- Ballots, Bargains, and Bombs: Terrorist Targeting of Spoiler Opportunities
2010
- Resisting infection: How state capacity conditions conflict contagion
2010
- Beyond the Hazards of Occupation
2009
- Transnational Terrorism Hot Spots: Identification and Impact Evaluation:
2007
- Enders, Walter, and Todd Sandler. The Political Economy of Terrorism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
2007
- The Geographic Spread of Militarized Disputes
2006
- Location, Location, Location…Identifying Hot spots of International Conflict
2005
- Victim of Success: American Dominance and Terrorism
2005