This dissertation investigates the relationship between ethnic diversity and different forms of political instability in sub-Saharan Africa. The first essay, written with Kimuli Kasara, is a cross-national statistical study of the effect of the sizes of ethnic groups and their c…
This dissertation proposes a theory on the determinants of inter-ethnic electoral violence. Based on the construction of an original dataset on communal clashes that occurred around multiparty elections in Kenya between 1991 and 2013 as well as extensive field research including…
The aftermath of the large scale uprisings in the Arab world known as the Arab Spring has brought about it many great shifts in the Middle East. The regime of Hosni Mubarak fell in Egypt only to be supplanted by Islamists, who were also eventually usurped from power by a militar…