
Navin Bapat
@nbapat
Professor, UNC - Chapel Hill. Studies terrorism, insurgency, energy politics, and the use of economic sanctions. Tweets, RTs, opinions, are my own.
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http://bapat.web.unc.edu 21-01-2009 20:05:59
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👋I am on the job market! For exs of my work - related to both behavior and institutions w/r/t pub security in Lat Am - check out my research page. My work uses survey experiments, text analysis, + fieldwork and I have taught methods + CP at uncpolisci isabellaterzo.com/home/projects/



🚨 Now published with page numbers! "Organized Crime and Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence From Criminal Groups in Mexico." by Carolina Garriga & me doi.org/10.1177/002200… ⬆️ crime groups, ⬇️ FDI. With new data on numbers of criminal groups in Mexican states 2000-2018. 1/2 🧵

What tactics are used to coordinate mobilization under repressive regimes? Mai Hassan finds dissidents may strategically deviate from publicly available, coordinated plans to make regime response less efficient. #APSRFirstView ow.ly/y76150PIXzI


Job in IR of East Asia. William & Mary's Government Department is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor. Collegial department in the booming metropolis of Williamsburg, VA. Strong research support including collabs with William & Mary Global Research Institute and AidData. jobs.wm.edu/postings/56050

It's been a long time coming, finally published WEP Journal with the great young scholar @ErollKuhn (ready to be hired): "Asylum seekers feel more welcome in counties with more foreign born residents" (1/3) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Teaching a grad seminar "Qualitative Methods and Research Design" with the brilliant Paul Staniland. Fun! There has been a bunch of great qualitative work published in the last 5 years. We feature some of it in this syllabus, for those interested: dropbox.com/scl/fi/p3t3rvv…

1/ My piece for Project Syndicate explains why understanding the persistence of the dollar-centric system requires looking beyond the dollar's reserve currency status & appreciating the network effects that keep the dollar on top of the currency hierarchy. project-syndicate.org/commentary/why…

Very excited to see my paper modeling the political economy of divide-and-rule, "Social Conflict and the Predatory State," in print at QJPS Editors today: nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

Economic sanctions could escalate rather than reduce violence and support for terrorism. Find out why in the article from Navin Bapat & Meneviş Cılızoğlu argue 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jogss/…


Are sanctions counterproductive? Navin Bapat and I show that sanctions on state supporters of terrorism could inadvertently escalate terrorism.

Excited to present at Women in Legislative Studies this Friday! My book w/ Sarah Treul explores the causes and consequences of amateur politicians' growing success in congressional elections Work from this project is conditionally accepted at AJPS, check it out here: rachelporter.org/files/porter_t…


Get the "Monsters to Destroy: Understanding the War on Terror" audiobook for 50% off, now through 11/16. Navin Bapat audiobooks.com/promotions/pro…

My CTC at West Point piece on US CT policy dilemmas in Afghanistan and Pakistan. ctc.westpoint.edu/commentary-no-…



What happens when a formal modeler and a political psychologist walk into a room? …Very excited that my paper with Keith Schnakenberg, Anger and Political Conflict Dynamics, has been accepted at American Political Science Review! 1/7


A bit late, but here's replication data from "Insurgent Terrorism" by Victor Asal R. Karl Rethemeyer and me. Info on 140 rebel groups 1998-2012 with variables like civilian targeting (multiple types, e.g. attacks on schools or journalists), allies, rivals... sites.google.com/site/brianjphi… 1/4
