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Mailing Address Department of Political Science Barnard College Columbia University 3009 Broadway New York, New York 10027-6598 USA

Phone/Fax Number(s) phone: 212-854-4877 fax: 212-854-3024

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Countries of Specialization Democratic Republic of Congo

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Research Interests - Research on civil and international wars, international interventions, and African politics - Current research project on local violence and international intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Teaching Interests - African-studies related teaching: classes on African civil wars and on aid and politics in Africa

Publications * Recent: Forthcoming 2010. The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. "Hobbes and the Congo: Frames, Local Violence, and International Intervention," International Organization, Vol. 63, pp. 249-280, 2009. "Penser les Conflits Locaux: L'Echec de l'Intervention Internationale au Congo." L'Afrique des Grands Lacs: Annuaire 2007-2008. Paris : L'Harmattan, 2008. "The Trouble with Congo - How Local Disputes Fuel Regional Violence," Foreign Affairs, May/June 2008. "D.R. Congo: Explaining Peace Building Failures, 2003-2006," Review of African Political Economy, September 2007. "Local violence, National Peace? Post-war .settlement. in the Eastern D.R. Congo," African Studies Review, December 2006. "The United States 'humanitarian diplomacy' in South Sudan," Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, January 2002. http://jha.ac/ I am also working on a book: Local Violence, International Indifference? The Failure of Peace Building in the Congo.

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