Professor

Stathis N. Kalyvas

University of Oxford
Political scientist; Educator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Political Science
Elected
2008
Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science; Director, Program on Order, Conflict and Violence; Co-Director, Hellenic Studies Program. Created a framework for relating micro and macro aspects of civil conflicts, whether political, religious or ethnic. Validated this framework in a comparative study of conflicts in several societies, generating several eye-opening conclusions. Author of The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe (1996) and The Logic of Violence in Civil War (2006).
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