Expertise
Drugs and other illicit economies; counternarcotics policies; insurgency; civil war; terrorism; conflict management; stability operations and reconstruction; positive versus coercive inducement strategies; Latin America; Afghanistan; Burma/Myanmar; U.S. foreign policy
- Language Fluency:
- French
- Czech
Background
Current Positions
Non-resident Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Past Positions
Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University (2005-06); Research Associate, Seminar XXI (2004-05); Teaching Fellow, Department of Political Science, MIT (Spring 2004); Research Assistant, Department of Political Science, MIT (2001-03); Junior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1999-2000)
Education
Ph.D., MIT, 2007; B.A., Harvard University, 1999
"There has not been one single case in which an insurgency has been defeated by economic means -- and this includes drugs. It has never worked anywhere."