Brian Phillips (University of Pittsburg PhD, 2012) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Essex and an Affiliated Professor of international studies at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics in Mexico City. His research focuses mostly on organizational dynamics of terrorism, civil conflict, and transnational organized crime. He is currently working on a START-funded project to evaluate how economic sanctions like the U.S. Foreign Terrorist Organization list affect terrorist groups. You can find him on Twitter @brian_jphillips.