How to Integrate the Study of Political Violence

Violent political conflict is a complex and multilayered phenomenon that is approached in an increasingly fragmented and confusing manner. A variety of partially overlapping subfields compete for attention, along an ever-rising number of subfield journals and datasets. The experience of studying political violence often resembles the metaphor of death by a thousand cuts, while the big picture has become very hard to distinguish. Past efforts to discipline the field failed, most notably Charles Tilly’s 2003 Collective Political Violence. In this lecture, Professor Stathis N. Kalyvastake takes up his task again and propose a new approach aiming at optimizing and clarifying the study of violent political conflict.

This lecture is part of the Department of Political Economy's Distinguished Lecture series and will be followed by a reception to which all guests are invited.

SPEAKER

Stathis N. Kalyvas is Gladstone Professor of Government and fellow of All Souls College at Oxford. Until 2018 he was Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he founded and directed the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence and co-directed the Hellenic Studies Program. In 2019 he founded and directs the T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence at All Souls College.

He is the author of The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe (Cornell University Press, 1996), The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2015), the co-editor of Order, Conflict, and Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and the Oxford Handbook on Terrorism (Oxford University Press, 2019), and the author of over fifty scholarly articles in five languages, as well as several books and edited volumes in Greek. His current research focuses on global trends in political violence with an additional interest in the history and politics of Greece.

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