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Conflict and violence, civil wars, protests and repression, statebuilding, democracy and authoritarianism, African and Latin American politics
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Forthcoming. “Stumbling out of the Gates: Security Strategy and Military Weakness after Revolutionary Victory,” Security Studies. Accepted version here.
Forthcoming. “From Insurgent to Incumbent: Ideology, Rebel Governance, and Statebuilding after Rebel Victory in Civil Wars,” Comparative Politics. Accepted version here.
Forthcoming. “Lessons from AR Memorialization: Artists’ and Activists’ Approaches to Community-Centered AR Development,” Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’25) (with Ana Cárdenas Gasca, Payton Croskey, Tobias Höllerer, Jennifer Jacobs, and Emilia Yang).
Forthcoming. “Liberatory Collections and Ethical AI: Reimagining AI Development from Black Community Archives and Datasets,” Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’24) (with Payton Croskey, Jennifer Jacobs, & Fabian Offert).
2024. “From snapshots to panoramas: Navigating power, space, and time in the study of armed groups,” Conflict, Security, & Development 26(6): 725-755 (with Sean Ashley and Antonia Juelich).
2024. “Levels of Analysis and Variation in Civil War Violence and Restraint: Ideology and Contestation in Nicaragua,” Journal of Global Security Studies 9(2): ogae018.
2024. “Statebuilding and Indigenous Rights Implementation: Political Incentives, Social Movement Pressure, and Autonomy Policy in Central America,” World Development 175 (March): 106468 (with Giorleny Altamirano Rayo and Eric Mosinger).
2023. “Framing Police Violence: Repression, Resistance, and the Persistent Power of History in Chile,” Journal of Politics 85 (4), (with Lisa Mueller and Eric Mosinger).
2022. “Rebel Mobilization through Pandering: Insincere Leaders and Exploitation of Popular Grievances,” Security Studies 31(3): 351-380. Methodological appendix available here.
2022. “Taking Responsibility and Tying Hands: The Case for Limiting U.S. Relationships with Armed Groups,” Harvard International Law Journal Online 63. Full text here.
2022. “Nicaragua: Doubling Down on Dictatorship,” Journal of Democracy 33(2): 133-146 (with Eric Mosinger). Due to space and citation limits, an additional annotated bibliography is here.
2022. “Delegation, Sponsorship, and Autonomy: An Integrated Framework for Understanding Armed Group-State Relationships.” Journal of Global Security Studies 7(1): ogab026.
2022. “Civil Resistance in the Shadow of the Revolution: Historical Framing in Nicaragua’s Sudden Uprising.” Comparative Politics 54(2): 253-277 (with Eric Mosinger, Diana Paz García, and Charlotte Fowler).
2021. “Military Integration and Intelligence Capacity: Informational Effects of Incorporating Former Rebels.” Political Research Exchange 3(1): 1-21.
2021. “Reflexivity and Temporality in Researching Violent Settings: Problems with the Replicability and Transparency Regime.” Geopolitics 26(1): 18-44.
2018. “Has Liberia Turned a Corner?” Journal of Democracy 29(3): 156-170 (with Benjamin Spatz).
2017. “Nicaragua: A Return to Caudillismo.” Journal of Democracy 28(2): 157-169.
2017. “Mixed Methods Research in the Study of Political and Social Violence and Conflict.” Journal of Mixed Methods Research 11(1): 59-76.
2016. “Dynamique et diversité des armées africaines: État des connaissances.” Afrique Contemporaine 2016/4(260): 27-44 (with Jason Warner).
2014. “Socioeconomic Conditions and Violence in Cape Town, South Africa.” Economics of Peace and Security 9(2): 34-42 (with Jeremy Seekings).
2012. “Ideology and Violence in Civil Wars: Theory and Evidence from Mozambique and Angola.” Civil Wars 14(4): 546-567.
2012. “Foreshadowing Future Slaughter: From the Indonesian Killings of 1965-66 to Genocide in East Timor.” Genocide Studies and Prevention 7(2/3): 204-222.
2009. “Avoiding the Abyss: Finding a Way Forward in Guinea-Bissau.” Portuguese Journal of International Affairs 1(2): 3-14.
2021. “Nicaragua and Covid-19: Authoritarian Indifference,” in Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Haeran Lim, and Habibul Khonder (eds.), Covid-19 and Governance: Crisis Reveals, pp.229-241 (New York: Routledge).
2019. “Mixed Methods in the Study of Violence,” in Walter S. DeKeseredy, Callie Marie Rennison, and Amanda K. Hall-Sanchez (eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Violence Studies, pp.19-29 (New York: Routledge).
2018. “U.S. Action and Inaction in the Massacre of Communists and Alleged Communists in Indonesia,” in Samuel Totten (ed.), Dirty Hands and Vicious Deeds: The US Government’s Complicity in Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide, pp.23-69 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press).
2013. “Brazil, Biofuels, and Food Security in Mozambique,” in Renu Modi and Fantu Cheru (eds.), Agricultural Development and Food Security in Africa: The Impact of Chinese, Indian and Brazilian Investments, pp.145-158 (London: Zed Books).
Additional works are available at https://kaithaler.com/research/
Courses:
Global 120 Global Ideologies and World Order
Global 124 Peace, Conflict, and Violence in Global Perspective
Global 224 Research Methods
Global 292BG Contemporary Global Conflict: Nonviolent and Violent Resistance and Repression