Idean Salehyan (UC San Diego PhD, 2006) is a Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas, Executive Director of the Peace Science Society (International), and the co-Director of the Social Conflict Analysis Database project. He is also affiliated with the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at UT Austin, the Niskanen Center, and the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University. Dr. Salehyan’s research focuses on topics related to civil conflict and protest movements, international migration, and refugee policy. He is the author of Rebels Without Borders: Transnational Insurgencies in World Politics (Cornell University Press, 2009), which won the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section of the International Studies Association. His articles appear in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of Peace Research, the Journal of Politics, and World Politics. You can find him on Twitter @IdeanSalehyan.
Posts by Idean Salehyan
- Ten Years of Political Violence At A Glance, December 16, 2022.
- Looking Back at 9/11, September 9, 2021.
- Why We Shouldn’t Call Militias, ‘Militias’, October 19, 2020.
- Soleimani’s Murder Turns the Focus of Middle East Protest Towards the US—For Now, January 13, 2020
- What Will Taught Us About Refugees and Forced Migrants, May 8, 2017.
- What the Iranian Revolution Can Teach Us About the US Presidential Election, November 25, 2016.
- Joe Public v. Sue Scholar: Support for the Use of Force, July 27, 2015.
- Data Challenged in Conflict Research, February 6, 2015.
- The Syrian Refugee Crisis and Conflict Spillover, February 11, 2014.
- Refugees, Transnational Rebels, and the Syrian Civil War, October 4, 2012.