Jeremy Weinstein

Professor of Political Science & Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

Jeremy Weinstein is Kleinheinz Professor of International Studies, Faculty Director of Stanford Impact Labs, and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University. He also is faculty co-director of the Immigration Policy Lab. In addition, he is a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C. He previously served as Fisher Family Director of Stanford Global Studies. His research focuses on civil wars and political violence; ethnic politics; the political economy of development; democracy and accountability; and migration. He is the author of Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence (Cambridge University Press), which received the William Riker Prize for the best book on political economy. He is also the co-author of Coethnicity: Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action (Russell Sage Foundation), which received the Gregory Luebbert Award for the best book in comparative politics. He has published widely in leading journals including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Annual Review of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Journal of Democracy, International Organization, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science, and World Development, among others