Nicholai Lidow
Postdoctoral Researcher, DACOR
- Phone: 858/534-7592
- Fax: 858/534-7655
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state building and collapse, SomaliaBiography
Nicholai Lidow is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University in 2011. His research focuses on the creation of social order in the midst of state collapse and the organization of armed groups. His dissertation, "Violent Order: Rebel Organization and Liberia's Civil War," explains variation in rebel abusiveness and group factionalization by focusing on the principal agent relationships that exist between international financiers, rebel leaders, and their top commanders. He tests the theory through a variety of methods, including extensive fieldwork and an original dataset of changes in crop area derived through remote sensing. Lidow's current research focuses on state-building and the economic costs of insecurity in Somalia. He received a B.A. with honors in political science with a minor in physics from Stanford University.
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