Expertise
Drugs and other illicit economies; counternarcotics policies; insurgency; civil war; terrorism; conflict management; stability operations and reconstruction; positive versus coercive inducement strategies; Latin America; Afghanistan; Colombia; Burma/Myanmar; Peru; Somalia U.S. foreign policy
- Language Fluency:
- French
- Czech
Background
Past Positions
Assistant Professor, Security Studies Program, Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (2007-08); Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University (2005-06); Research Associate, Seminar XXI (2004-05); Teaching Fellow, Department of Political Science, MIT (Spring 2004); Research Assistant, Department of Political Science, MIT (2001-03); Junior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1999-2000)
Education
Ph.D., MIT, 2007; B.A., Harvard University, 1999
"There has not been one single case in which an insurgency has been defeated by economic means -- and this includes drugs. It has never worked anywhere."