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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.

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Courses
  • GSSFT
    Governance, Security, State Formation and Terrorism

  • HTE
    How Terrorism Ends

  • IIR
    Introduction to International Relations

  • TC
    Terrorism and Counterterrorism

  • IR
    International Relations

  • DCWP
    Diffusion and Contagion in World Politics

  • IRP
    Immigration and Refugee Policy

Grants
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    Enhancing the Evidence for Humanitarian Action in the Face of Climate Change

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2022

    $1000.0K
    Active
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    Concentration Camp Systems: Data Collection and Dissemination

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2022

    $362.3K
    Active
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    Analyzing Migration Patterns from Central America Using Natural Language and Machine Learning

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2020

    $660.0K
    Active
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    Refugee Flows and Instability

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2017

    $1.4M
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    Aid, Conflict, and the Movement of IPDs and Refugees Conference

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2017

    $12.0K
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    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

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