Member Achievement: Paul Staniland, Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Political Science and nonresident scholar in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Paul Staniland, COSAS member and Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Political Science, recently published a report with the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace titled, “Major Power Rivalry and Domestic Politics in South Asia.”

In his report, Professor Staniland notes the important differences in whether and how domestic players in third-party states in Asia mobilize external major power rivalry in their own internal politics, ranging from making it central to their political strategies to ignoring major power competition in favor of a purely internal focus.

The paper outlines a new framework of trajectories that helps us measure and compare the overlap between the contours of a major power international competition and the key lines of division within the domestic politics of third-party states. It then identifies three mechanisms that can increase or undermine this overlap, both across countries and over time within them.

Please join us in congratulating Professor Staniland on his achievement!