Liana Eustacia Reyes
@lianaeustacia.bsky.social
Fellow @ Dartmouth - Dickey Center. Assistant Professor @ Purdue. Director of Law & Conflict Lab. Research on causes & consequences of law, governance, & conflict resolution, emphasis on civil wars. Proud Latina: Cubana/Venezolana/Arubana.
Pub Alert! Check out or work on the use of military versus civilian trials during armed conflict. We bridge work on rebel taxation, crime, civil war, and justice/comparative courts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... @cloyle.bsky.social @justinconrad.bsky.social
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August 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Pub Alert! Check out or work on the use of military versus civilian trials during armed conflict. We bridge work on rebel taxation, crime, civil war, and justice/comparative courts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... @cloyle.bsky.social @justinconrad.bsky.social
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Interesting article on how rebels use narcotics (both directly and as finance), but the Taliban's approach was not uncommon. The Chinese Communist Party destroyed many opium crops but kept some to manufacture anesthetics (at minimum), and in work with @lianaeustacia.bsky.social and Justin Conrad ...
To fund a war with the U.S., the Taliban reaped millions from boom towns trading opium, heroin and meth. Once victorious, the group crushed the trade, leaving ghost towns in its wake.
The Once Booming Drug Town Going Bust Under Taliban Rule
Funding its war against the United States, the Taliban reaped millions from boom towns trading opium, heroin and meth. Victorious, the group crushed the trade, leaving ghost towns in its wake.
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Interesting article on how rebels use narcotics (both directly and as finance), but the Taliban's approach was not uncommon. The Chinese Communist Party destroyed many opium crops but kept some to manufacture anesthetics (at minimum), and in work with @lianaeustacia.bsky.social and Justin Conrad ...
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Headed to APSA 2025? I’m putting together a panel on new approaches to military effectiveness. All methods + time periods welcome! (We have an experiment on discrimination and unit cohesion, for example). If you’re interested, send me an email.
December 15, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Headed to APSA 2025? I’m putting together a panel on new approaches to military effectiveness. All methods + time periods welcome! (We have an experiment on discrimination and unit cohesion, for example). If you’re interested, send me an email.
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Folks: does anyone know of any studies on whether academics move more than people in other professions? TIA.
December 12, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Folks: does anyone know of any studies on whether academics move more than people in other professions? TIA.
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Kicking off Peace Science over dinner with @lianaeustacia.bsky.social and Mich Gov Big Gretch, what?!?!
November 8, 2024 at 1:27 AM
Kicking off Peace Science over dinner with @lianaeustacia.bsky.social and Mich Gov Big Gretch, what?!?!
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Is your Bluesky feed missing in conflict analysis? I made a starter pack of peace and conflict scholars to follow here. DM me if you want to be included.
#Conflictsky
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#Conflictsky
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September 12, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Is your Bluesky feed missing in conflict analysis? I made a starter pack of peace and conflict scholars to follow here. DM me if you want to be included.
#Conflictsky
go.bsky.app/7o8tZt2
#Conflictsky
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New blogpost for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social with @cwiehler.bsky.social on why conflict researchers need to view communal conflict as a wartime phenomenon and how such a perspective can help prevent, curb, and resolve communal violence ⤵️
theloop.ecpr.eu/why-communal...
#polisky #conflictsky
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#polisky #conflictsky
Why communal conflict should be viewed as a wartime phenomenon
Violent local conflicts over land and resources are taking place almost exclusively in civil war-affected societies. Claudia Wiehler and Sebastian van Baalen argue that analysts and peacebuilding prac...
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May 14, 2024 at 5:15 PM
New blogpost for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social with @cwiehler.bsky.social on why conflict researchers need to view communal conflict as a wartime phenomenon and how such a perspective can help prevent, curb, and resolve communal violence ⤵️
theloop.ecpr.eu/why-communal...
#polisky #conflictsky
theloop.ecpr.eu/why-communal...
#polisky #conflictsky
Thoroughly enjoyed discussing several papers at ISA, eating my way through SF, and celebrating the accomplishments of others. It was fun and probably my favorite SF trip. See you all again next year!
April 9, 2024 at 12:31 AM
Thoroughly enjoyed discussing several papers at ISA, eating my way through SF, and celebrating the accomplishments of others. It was fun and probably my favorite SF trip. See you all again next year!
Fortunate to have such an amazing and brilliant colleague like @mjcohen.bsky.social! Beyond excited for her new book on protest voting in Latin America!! Electoral behavior, invalid voting, democracy, new knowledge in an election year? What more do you need?!
February 27, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Fortunate to have such an amazing and brilliant colleague like @mjcohen.bsky.social! Beyond excited for her new book on protest voting in Latin America!! Electoral behavior, invalid voting, democracy, new knowledge in an election year? What more do you need?!
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If the book gets 1500 downloads before February 13th, I’ll run a 5k in a prom dress.
My latest book, on rebel groups' management of marriage, is available and FREE to download for 2 weeks: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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January 31, 2024 at 2:52 AM
If the book gets 1500 downloads before February 13th, I’ll run a 5k in a prom dress.
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My latest book, on rebel groups' management of marriage, is available and FREE to download for 2 weeks: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org
January 30, 2024 at 3:14 PM
My latest book, on rebel groups' management of marriage, is available and FREE to download for 2 weeks: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Today Is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Germany’s memory landscape helps us teach about the past – and the present.
Read this moving post from @kellyzvobgo.bsky.social here: goodauthority.org/news/interna...
Germany’s memory landscape helps us teach about the past – and the present.
Read this moving post from @kellyzvobgo.bsky.social here: goodauthority.org/news/interna...
January 27, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Today Is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Germany’s memory landscape helps us teach about the past – and the present.
Read this moving post from @kellyzvobgo.bsky.social here: goodauthority.org/news/interna...
Germany’s memory landscape helps us teach about the past – and the present.
Read this moving post from @kellyzvobgo.bsky.social here: goodauthority.org/news/interna...
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What happens when a formal modeler and a political psychologist walk into a room? …Very excited that my paper with @keithschnak.bsky.social, Anger and Political Conflict Dynamics, has been accepted at APSR! 1/7
January 15, 2024 at 10:52 PM
What happens when a formal modeler and a political psychologist walk into a room? …Very excited that my paper with @keithschnak.bsky.social, Anger and Political Conflict Dynamics, has been accepted at APSR! 1/7
Love this study and seeing it in print! Congrats @sebvanbaalen.bsky.social on another fantastic pub.
🔖 New open-access article out in @WorldDevJournal on why some armed groups restrain violent communal conflict in areas under their control while others do not ⤵️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Keeping communal peace in the shadow of civil war: A natural experiment from Côte d’Ivoire
Violent communal conflicts between identity-based groups are a severe threat to human security and development. While most communal conflicts take pla…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 5, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Love this study and seeing it in print! Congrats @sebvanbaalen.bsky.social on another fantastic pub.
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below is a link to the syllabus for the grad seminar I'll teach this spring on the "political economy of developing countries."
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2778r...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2778r...
January 3, 2024 at 9:46 PM
below is a link to the syllabus for the grad seminar I'll teach this spring on the "political economy of developing countries."
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2778r...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2778r...
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Claudine Gay responds, and she’s spot on:
“It is not lost on me that I make an ideal canvas for projecting every anxiety about the generational and demographic changes unfolding on American campuses: a Black woman selected to lead a storied institution.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/o...
“It is not lost on me that I make an ideal canvas for projecting every anxiety about the generational and demographic changes unfolding on American campuses: a Black woman selected to lead a storied institution.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/o...
Opinion | Claudine Gay: What Just Happened at Harvard Is Bigger Than Me
The demagogues won’t stop with Harvard.
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January 3, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Claudine Gay responds, and she’s spot on:
“It is not lost on me that I make an ideal canvas for projecting every anxiety about the generational and demographic changes unfolding on American campuses: a Black woman selected to lead a storied institution.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/o...
“It is not lost on me that I make an ideal canvas for projecting every anxiety about the generational and demographic changes unfolding on American campuses: a Black woman selected to lead a storied institution.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/o...
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Disease as the long shadow of war.
This is the most important story you need to read today. There is a very real risk of half a million Palestinians dying in Gaza in the next year from preventable disease.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s not just bullets and bombs. I have never seen health organisations as worried as they are abo...
A quarter of its Gaza’s population could die within a year due to outbreaks caused by this unprecedented conflict, says Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2023 at 2:07 AM
Disease as the long shadow of war.
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Looking forward to discussing Kevin Lou’s work on land reform, revolution, and civil war mobilization this Friday at 1pm EST at the virtual Chinese Politics Research in Progress seminar. More information and link here: chinesepoliticsresearchinprogress.com/schedule/
Presentations Schedule
Fall, 2023 Dec. 1 (Friday), 2023, 1-2PM (EST) / 12-1 PM (CST) / 10-11AM (PST) "Revolutionary Legacies and Redistribution: Guerrilla Warfare, Revolutionary Agents, and Land Reform in Communist China" K...
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November 26, 2023 at 1:20 PM
Looking forward to discussing Kevin Lou’s work on land reform, revolution, and civil war mobilization this Friday at 1pm EST at the virtual Chinese Politics Research in Progress seminar. More information and link here: chinesepoliticsresearchinprogress.com/schedule/
Another wonderful Peace Science conference. My heart and mind are full. Thanks to all for the brilliant work and welcoming community!
November 13, 2023 at 9:00 PM
Another wonderful Peace Science conference. My heart and mind are full. Thanks to all for the brilliant work and welcoming community!
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Excited to be going to Belfast next week to participate in a panel on Cultural Memory in the Bridging the Atlantic conference (it will be live streamed): globalirish.georgetown.edu/bridgingthea...
November 6, 2023 at 9:36 PM
Excited to be going to Belfast next week to participate in a panel on Cultural Memory in the Bridging the Atlantic conference (it will be live streamed): globalirish.georgetown.edu/bridgingthea...
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It's time to vote for ISA officers! Very honored to be nominated for an at-large position along some amazing people. Check out candidate statements and **vote** ! 🗳
www.isanet.org/ISA/Governan...
www.isanet.org/ISA/Governan...
ISA 2025-2026 Annual Election
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November 5, 2023 at 2:51 PM
It's time to vote for ISA officers! Very honored to be nominated for an at-large position along some amazing people. Check out candidate statements and **vote** ! 🗳
www.isanet.org/ISA/Governan...
www.isanet.org/ISA/Governan...
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I’m officially an et al.! We analyzed the discourse of al-Masra, an Arabic language newspaper linked to AQAP, surrounding over 100 individuals and organizations across 1250 articles Menasky Conflictsky www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
October 25, 2023 at 2:22 PM
I’m officially an et al.! We analyzed the discourse of al-Masra, an Arabic language newspaper linked to AQAP, surrounding over 100 individuals and organizations across 1250 articles Menasky Conflictsky www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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New by @kellyzvobgo.bsky.social today: "The ICC will likely investigate, and later prosecute, Hamas’s killings and hostage taking as war crimes. The ICC may also investigate, and later prosecute, Israel’s blockade and bombing campaign as war crimes." goodauthority.org/news/the-icc...
The ICC is investigating violence in Israel and Palestine
International Criminal Court, The Hague (cc) jbdodane On October 7, the terrorist group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, killing an estimated
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October 18, 2023 at 2:00 PM
New by @kellyzvobgo.bsky.social today: "The ICC will likely investigate, and later prosecute, Hamas’s killings and hostage taking as war crimes. The ICC may also investigate, and later prosecute, Israel’s blockade and bombing campaign as war crimes." goodauthority.org/news/the-icc...
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We at @goodauth.bsky.social are excited to share this call for the Good Authority fellows program. Deadline is January 15. Application is brief. Please share!
(And yes, in my mind, I'm calling it goodfellas.)
goodauthority.org/news/good-au...
(And yes, in my mind, I'm calling it goodfellas.)
goodauthority.org/news/good-au...
Announcing the Good Authority fellows program
Apply by Jan. 15, 2024 for the Good Authority fellowship and be a regular contributor to our blog on politics and political science.
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October 16, 2023 at 3:08 PM
We at @goodauth.bsky.social are excited to share this call for the Good Authority fellows program. Deadline is January 15. Application is brief. Please share!
(And yes, in my mind, I'm calling it goodfellas.)
goodauthority.org/news/good-au...
(And yes, in my mind, I'm calling it goodfellas.)
goodauthority.org/news/good-au...
Hispanic Heritage Month has come to an end. It was such a joy creating this thread. While it's not exhaustive, it is filled with some amazing scholars. I was lucky enough to learn about their work & accomplishments. You should too. Inspired by my little community.
It’s Hispanic Heritage Month! I’m going to intro my fave Hispanic scholars. A little about me: I’m TT AP at Purdue. 1st gen Amer. Cuban (Mom), Aruban-Venezuelan (Dad). Lived in LOTS of places, inc VZ. High school dropout, comm college grad, JD & PHD. Research rebel law/gov & conflict resolution.
October 16, 2023 at 2:32 PM
Hispanic Heritage Month has come to an end. It was such a joy creating this thread. While it's not exhaustive, it is filled with some amazing scholars. I was lucky enough to learn about their work & accomplishments. You should too. Inspired by my little community.