Tanisha Fazal

Research

Tanisha Fazal is Assistant Professor of PoliticalScience at Columbia University. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. Current research projects focus on changing compliance with the laws of war, state failure, and the relationship between geography and conflict.  Her book, State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation (Princeton University Press, 2007) won the 2008 Best Book Award of the American Political Science Association’s Conflict Processes Section.  She has been a fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. In 2002 she was awarded the Helen Dwight Reid Award of the American Political Science Association. 

Selected Work

• Fazal, Tanisha M. 2004. "State Death in the International System." International Organization 58:2, pp. 311-44.
• Fazal, Tanisha M. 2007.  State Death:  The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press.
• Fazal, Tanisha M. and Griffiths, Ryan D.  2008.  "A State of One's Own:  The Rise of Secession Since World War II."  Brown Journal of World Affairs.
  

See Also

• Seed grant: The Changing Meaning of War
• Newsletter article: State Death: Pros and Cons