Jason Lyall is assistant professor of politics and international affairs in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School. His research is currently focused on two questions: (1) the determinants of insurgent violence in civil wars and (2) why states vary in their military effectiveness in conventional and counterinsurgency warfare. Ongoing projects include: assessing how indiscriminate violence and ethnicity shape patterns of insurgent violence in Chechnya; the causes of victory in wars since 1800; and the dynamics of rebel recruitment in Chechnya, Afghanistan, and Iraq. His research has been published in International Organization and World Politics and has been funded by the United States Institute of Peace and the Macarthur Foundation, among others. He was awarded APSA's 2007 Helen Dwight Reid Prize for best dissertation in international relations, law, and politics, and received the Stanley Kelley, Jr., Prize for teaching excellence by the Politics Department in 2007. He was a visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard's Olin Institute for Strategic Studies (2007-08) as well as a visiting scholar at Harvard's Davis Center and the European University at St. Petersburg, Russia. Ph.D., Cornell.

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