Tanisha Fazal

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

International Affairs Building, Room 1330

212-854-8924

tmf2001@columbia.edu

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/polisci/fac-bios/fazal/faculty.html http://iserp.columbia.edu/people/tanisha-fazal

Tanisha Fazal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and a Member of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University.  Fazal’s current research projects focus on changing compliance with the laws of war, state failure, and the relationship between geography and conflict.

Her book, State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation (Princeton University Press, 2007), won the 2008 Best Book Award of the American Political Science Association’s Conflict Processes Section.  Fazal has served as a fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University.  In 2002, she was awarded the Helen Dwight Reid Award of the American Political Science Association.

Fazal received a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Selected Publications

With Ryan D. Griffiths, “A State of One’s Own: The Rise of Secession Since World War II.” Brown Journal of World Affairs (Fall/Winter 2008)

State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation (Princeton University Press, 2007)

Pubisher Information

“State Death in the International System.” International Organization (2004)

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