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MagnifyDavid Laitin, PhD
James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor of Political Science; CISAC Affiliated Faculty Member
Department of Political Science
Stanford University
Encina Hall, W423
Stanford, CA 94305-6044
Research Interests
culture; ethnicity; nationalism; civil wars
David Laitin is the James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor of Political Science and an affiliated faculty member at CISAC. He has conducted field research in Somalia, Nigeria, Spain, and Estonia. His latest book is Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad. He is currently working on a project in collaboration with James Fearon on civil wars in the past half-century. From that project, "Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War" has appeared in the American Political Science Review. Laitin received his BA from Swarthmore College and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
Stanford Departments
Political Science
Publications
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- Nations, States, and Violence
David Laitin
Oxford University Press (2007) 
Neotrusteeship and the Problem of Weak States
James D. Fearon, David Laitin
International Security vol. 28, 4 (2004)
Misunderestimating Terrorism
Alan B. Kreuger, David Laitin
Foreign Affairs vol. 83, 5 (2004)
- Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change, A
Avner Greif, David Laitin
CDDRL Working Papers (2004) 
Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
James D. Fearon, David Laitin
American Political Science Review vol. 97, 1 (2003)
Events & Presentations
- Incomplete Assimilation among Muslims in France
March 1, 2012 FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Seminar Series
David Laitin
Audio transcript available - Suicide Attacks: Incorrect Arguments and Anomalies
October 18, 2007 CISAC Science, Technology and Security Seminar
Martha Crenshaw, David Laitin - Motivations of Terrorism
October 20, 2006 Round Table
Arie Kruglanski, Paul Milgrom, David Laitin, Eva Meyersson Milgrom, Robert Powell, Lee Ross - Workshop: The movement of suicide bombing and how it is reflected in our thinking about social behavior in the social sciences
November 22, 2002 Special Seminar
Kenneth J. Arrow, Yossi Feinberg, Eva Meyersson Milgrom, Eli Berman, Paul Milgrom, Mark Granovetter, Jon Elster, Douglas Heckathorn, Guillermina Jasso, Arie Kruglanski, David Laitin, Howard Rosenthal, Noah Friedkin, Alan Krueger - Transitions to Independence and Commitments to Minorities
May 3, 2001 CISAC Social Science Seminar
David Laitin, James Fearon
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