Scott Straus | Academic Influence

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Scott Straus is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, Dartmouth College, University of Wisconsin–Madison

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According to Wikipedia, Scott Straus is an American political scientist currently serving as a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. Strauss received a BA in English from Dartmouth College and a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on genocide, violence, human rights and African politics. He was previously a freelance journalist based in Africa, and in 2000 was a visiting fellow at Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. He is the 2018 winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas for Improving World Order for his book Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa.

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Scott Straus's Published Works

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Published Works

The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda (2006) (585)
WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2011 (2011) (200)
Wars do end! Changing patterns of political violence in sub-Saharan Africa (2012) (192)
How many perpetrators were there in the Rwandan genocide? An estimate (2004) (137)
Democratization and Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1990-2007 (2009) (136)
What Is the Relationship between Hate Radio and Violence? Rethinking Rwanda's “Radio Machete” (2007) (126)
The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History (2003) (125)
Contested meanings and conflicting imperatives: A conceptual analysis of genocide (2001) (118)
Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence (2011) (116)
Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures (2003) (107)
Darfur and the Genocide Debate (2005) (86)
‘IT'S SHEER HORROR HERE’: PATTERNS OF VIOLENCE DURING THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF CÔTE D'IVOIRE'S POST-ELECTORAL CRISIS (2011) (84)
Retreating from the Brink: Theorizing Mass Violence and the Dynamics of Restraint (2012) (82)
Perils of pluralism: Electoral violence and incumbency in sub-Saharan Africa (2017) (65)
Second-Generation Comparative Research on Genocide (2007) (59)
“Destroy Them to Save Us”: Theories of Genocide and the Logics of Political Violence (2012) (58)
The Road to Hell? Third-Party Intervention to Prevent Atrocities (2013) (51)
Macro, Meso, and Micro Research on Genocide: Gains, Shortcomings, and Future Areas of Inquiry (2012) (43)
Who Pursues the Perpetrators?: State Cooperation with the ICC (2017) (43)
Response to Paul Staniland’s review of Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership and Genocide in Modern Africa. (2015) (39)
The Historiography of the Rwandan Genocide (2008) (36)
Rwanda and Darfur: A Comparative Analysis (2006) (29)
Defending democracy in Côte d'Ivoire (2011) (26)
From War to Genocide: Criminal Politics in Rwanda, 1990–1994 (2015) (20)
What drives violence against civilians in civil war? Evidence from Guatemala’s conflict archives (2018) (20)
Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide (2006) (16)
Making and Unmaking Nations: The Origins and Dynamics of Genocide in Contemporary Africa (2015) (16)
The Human Rights Paradox: Universality and Its Discontents (2014) (14)
Triggers of Mass Atrocities (2015) (14)
The Limits of a Genocide Lens: Violence Against Rwandans in the 1990s* (2019) (13)
Organic purity and the role of anthropology in Cambodia and Rwanda (2001) (12)
Perils of Pluralism: Electoral Violence and Competitive Authoritarianism in Sub-Saharan Africa (SWP 23) (2013) (10)
Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwanda Genocide and the International Communityby Linda Melvern (2005) (9)
The Order of Genocide: The Dynamics of Genocide in Rwanda (2007) (9)
Order, Conflict, and Violence: Order in disorder: a micro-comparative study of genocidal dynamics in Rwanda (2008) (8)
Political Science and Genocide (2010) (8)
Challenges, debates, and reflections on the “post” in “post-conflict” Côte d'Ivoire: an introduction (2014) (8)
Studying Perpetrators: A Reflection (2017) (8)
Stathis Kalyvas on 20 years of studying political violence (2020) (8)
The Perils of Ethnicity (2001) (5)
:Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide (2008) (5)
Changing Patterns of Political Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa (2019) (5)
Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (2016) (4)
Blood Transfusion Requirements Among War Casualties in Sarajevo (1994) (3)
IdentIfyIng genocIde and Related foRms of mass atRocIty (2011) (2)
Fiona Terry of the International Committee of the Red Cross talks about The Roots of Restraint in War and the intersection of research and humanitarianism (2020) (2)
Reconstructing Atrocity Prevention: What Is Being Prevented? Genocide, Mass Atrocity, and Conceptual Ambiguity in the Anti-Atrocity Movement (2015) (2)
Africas Stalled Development (2002) (1)
Is a comparative theory of perpetrators possible (2018) (1)
Shaharyar M. Khan. The Shallow Graves of Rwanda . London: I.B. Tauris, 2000. Distributed by Palgrave-USA. xi + 228 pp. Photographs. Map. Bibliography. Index. $35.00. Cloth. (2002) (1)
A Step Forward (2009) (1)
Introducing a new journal: Violence (2020) (1)
The Promise and Limits of Comparison: The Holocaust and the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda (2018) (1)
INTRODUCTION: RWANDA TWENTY YEARS AFTER THE GENOCIDE (2014) (1)
Book under Discussion: The Order of Genocide. Race, Power, and War in Rwanda (2008) (0)
Protectors of Pluralism: Religious Minorities and the Rescue of Jews in the Low Countries during the Holocaust. By Robert Braun. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xxi+278. $99.99 (cloth); $29.99 (paper). (2020) (0)
Amoral Communities: Collective Crimes in Time of War. By Mila Dragojević. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. 224p. $45.00 cloth. (2021) (0)
NIC CHEESEMAN, Democracy in Africa: successes, failures, and the struggle for political reform. New York NY: Cambridge University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 521 19112 8; pb US$28.99 – 978 0 521 13842 0). 2015, 247 pp. (2016) (0)
On photographing the legacies of violence: A conversation with Jo Ractliffe (2020) (0)
Dynamics of Genocide in Darfur and Rwanda Patterns of Violence (2019) (0)
Round Table (Part 3): The Limits of Lemkin (2022) (0)
Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse. By Paul Staniland. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014. 312p. $82.50 cloth, $27.95 paper. (2016) (0)
Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder by Daniel Chirot and Clark McCauley (2008) (0)
Introduction to the Special Section on Lee Ann Fujii’s Show Time (2022) (0)
Making and Unmaking Nations: The Dynamics of Genocide and Non-Genocide in Rwanda, Sudan, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, and Senegal (2014) (0)
Reeves Eric. A Long Day's Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide . Toronto: The Key Publishing House, 2007. 360 pp. Photographs. Maps. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $37.99. Paper. (2008) (0)
From “Rescue” to Violence (2014) (0)
A Long Day’s Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide (review) (2008) (0)
From War to Genocide (2015) (0)
Round Table (Full Symposium): What’s Raphaël Lemkin Got to do with Genocide Studies? A Conversation on Gender, Culture, Economics, Categorical Violence, and Colonization with Professors Sarah Federman, Dirk Moses, Max Pensky, and Scott Straus (2022) (0)
Ukraine and the politics of political violence (2022) (0)
Stephen Straus, MD (2001) (0)
The Media and the Rwanda Genocide edited by Allan Thompson, with a statement by Kofi Annan London/Ottawa: Pluto Press/International Development Research Centre, 2007. Pp. 463, £19.99. (2008) (0)
Dangerous Sanctuaries: Refugee Camps, Civil War, and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aidby Sarah Kenyon Lischer (2006) (0)
PRBM_A_266233 759..774 (2020) (0)
Correction (2019) (0)
The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa. By René Lemarchand. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2009. 323p. $59.95 cloth, $27.50 paper. (2010) (0)
Morton Andrew. Moi: The Making of an African Statesman . London: Michael O'Mara Books, 1999 (US). Distributed by Trafalgar Square, PO Box 257, North Pomfret, VT, 05053. viii + 207 pp. Photographs. Chronology. Select Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Cloth. (1999) (0)
Three Domains of Conflict and Insecurity : A Descriptive Summary (2011) (0)
Obituary: Alison Des Forges, 1942–2009 (2009) (0)
Democracy in Africa: successes, failures, and the struggle for political reform by Nic Cheeseman (review) (2016) (0)
M. W. Daly. Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. xix, 368. $22.99. (2008) (0)
Darfur: A Short History of a Long War and Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide (2006) (0)

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