Political Science Faculty

Peter Krause

Associate Professor

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Peter Krause

Ph.D.

Contact

McGuinn 229

Telephone: 617-552-0759

Email: peter.krause.2@bc.edu

ORCID

Education

  • B.A., Williams College
  • Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Interests

International security, Middle East politics, terrorism and political violence, and national movements

Expertise

  • International Politics

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Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Peter Krause鈥檚 research and teaching focus on international security, Middle East politics, terrorism and political violence, nationalism, and rebels and revolution. He is the author of听听(Cornell University Press, 2017) and co-editor of听听(Oxford University Press, 2018) and听听(Columbia University Press, 2020).听He has published articles on the causes and effectiveness of terrorism and political violence, why states negotiate with ethno-political organizations,听the strategies of counter-secession,听social movements and territorial control in Israel, U.S. intervention in the Syrian civil war, the politics of division within the Palestinian national movement, the war of ideas in the Middle East, a reassessment of U.S. operations at Tora Bora in 2001, and field research amidst COVID-19.

Krause has conducted extensive fieldwork throughout the Middle East. He currently teaches courses on Middle East politics, terrorism and political violence, research methods, and international relations. He is a 艾可直播associate in the International Studies Program and the Islamic Civilization and Societies Program at 艾可直播 College, as well as a research affiliate with the MIT Security Studies Program.

Krause was formerly a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs of the Harvard Kennedy School, the Crown Center for Middle East Studies of Brandeis University, LUISS University, and Uppsala University.

Select Recent Publications

鈥溾�� with David Siroky and Emil Aslan Souleimanov,听Security Studies听(May 2022)

鈥溾�� with Daniel Gustafson, Jordan Theriault, and Liane Young,听Journal of Conflict Resolution听(published online April 2022)

鈥�,鈥澨齆ations and Nationalism听(published online March 2022)

鈥溾�� with Nils Ha虉gerdal,听Terrorism and Political Violence听(published online March 2022)听

鈥溾�� with Ora Szekely and 11 others,听PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 54, No. 2 (April 2021) pp. 264-269

鈥�,鈥澨�Political Violence @ a Glance, March 2, 2021

听(New York: Columbia University Press, 2020)

鈥淣avigating Born and Chosen Identities in Fieldwork,鈥� in听, Peter Krause and Ora Szekely (eds.) (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020)

鈥�?,鈥澨�Manara, No. 3, Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum, December 2020

鈥�,鈥� with Sam Biasi,听Political Violence @ a Glance, August 20, 2020

鈥�,鈥� with Tyler Parker,听Political Violence @ a Glance, March 26, 2020

鈥�,鈥� with Victor Asal and Daniel Gustafson,听Studies in Conflict and Terrorism听Vol. 42, No. 4 (April 2019) pp.听363-382

, with Kelly Greenhill (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)

鈥�,鈥� with Ehud Eiran,听Comparative Politics, Vol. 50, No. 4 (July 2018) pp. 479-499

鈥淎 State, an Insurgency, and a Revolution: Understanding and Defeating the Three Faces of ISIS,鈥� in听,听Sumit Ganguly and Feisal A.R. al-Istrabadi (eds.) (Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press, 2018)

鈥�,鈥� with Ehud Eiran,听Terrorism and Political Violence

听(Ithaca: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, Cornell University Press, 2017)

,鈥� with Jordan Theriault and Liane Young,听Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Vol. 146, No. 3听(March 2017)听pp. 305-317

Select Recent Media Appearances

, NECN with Brian Shactman, January 3 2020

, WGBH 鈥淕reater 艾可直播"听with Jim Braude,听November 1, 2017

, NBC-艾可直播 with Joy Lim Nakrin and Shannon Mulaire, April 7, 2017

鈥溾�� CBS-Radio with Bradley Jay, February 19, 2016

, CBS-Radio鈥檚 鈥淣ightside" with Dan Rea, October 14, 2015

, NECN鈥檚 鈥淏roadside鈥� with Steve Aveson, October 8, 2015

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