Thursday, November 21, 2002

"Reputation and War:
Explaining the Intractability of Territorial Conflict"

Dr. Barbara Walter

Associate Professor of Political Science, UCSD

Barbara Walter received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1994. She is currently an associate professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Prior to coming to UCSD she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University and a post-doctoral fellow at the War and Peace Institute at Columbia University. Publications include: "The Critical Barrier to Civil War Settlement," International Organization, Summer 1997; "Designing Transitions from Violent Civil War," International Security, Summer 1999; Civil War, Insecurity and Intervention (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999) co-edited with Jack Snyder, and Committing to Peace: The Successful Settlement of Civil Wars (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002); and "Sabotaging the Peace: The Politics of Extremist Violence," International Organization, Spring 2002, with Andrew Kydd. She is currently working on a new project on the persistence of territorial conflict. Walter is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships. These include awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, and the Smith Richardson Foundation.