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I am an Associate Professor at Radboud University’s Department of Political Science and Centre for International Conflict Analysis and Management (CICAM), in Nijmegen (Netherlands). I hold a PhD in political science from Northwestern University (United States) and Sciences Po Paris (France).

My first book, Warlord Survival: The Delusion of State Building in Afghanistan, came out with Cornell University Press in December 2019. My new research project looks at rebel-to-state transition in Afghanistan and beyond and was recently awarded a VIDI grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO)’.

My work has been published in journals such as Security Studies, Perspectives on Politics, Civil Wars, Small Wars & Insurgencies, the Canadian Journal of Political Science, and Etudes Internationales, and featured on blogs and mainstreamed media such as Political Violence at a Glance, The Conversation, Foreign Policy, and The Washington Post‘s Monkey Cage. I also regularly engage with policy-makers and frequently appear in the media (e.g. Al Jazeera, NPR, France 24, France Info, France Culture).

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Latest publications
  • “The Past and Future of Afghan Warlords.” Clingendael Spectator, July 21, 2021.
  • “‘Reculer pour mieux sauter?’ Délégation et monopolisation de la violence en Afghanistan.” Canadian Journal of Political Science (2021). With Christian Olsson.
  • “Sahelistan? Military Intervention and Patronage Politics in Afghanistan and Mali.” Civil Wars 22:4 (2020): 543-566. With Adam Sandor.
  • “Bertrand Badie, penseur des relations internationales. Un penseur ‘à la française.’” Etudes Internationales 50:2 (2019): 195-204.
  • “Don’t expect Afghanistan to have a Western-style government. This explains why.” The Washington Post (Monkey Cage), December 17, 2019.
  • Warlord Survival: The Delusion of State Building in Afghanistan. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019.

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