Thursday, November 17, 3:30-5pm, Derby Hall [Rm. 1039], 154 N. Oval Mall [virtual participation is also available]

The 2020 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award was awarded to Jason Lyall for his book Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War (Princeton University Press). In the book, Lyall introduces the concept of military inequality, demonstrating how a state’s prewar choices about the citizenship status of ethnic groups within its population determine subsequent battlefield performance.

The Mershon Center’s Furniss Book Award commemorates the founding director of the Mershon Center and is given annually to an author whose first book makes an exceptional contribution to the study of national and international security.

Speaker

Jason Lyall is the James Wright Associate Professor in Transnational Studies and an associate professor of government at Dartmouth College, where he also directs the Political Violence FieldLab. His research examines the effects and effectiveness of political violence in civil and conventional wars. He is currently writing a Carnegie-funded book on how to improve humanitarian assistance in fragile and conflict settings like Afghanistan, Syria, and Yemen. A second project investigates the relationship between inequality, racism, and intergroup relations in violent settings, including within police forces, armies, and rebel organizations. Please join us on November 17 where Lyall will join us to discuss his book and will have time for question-and-answer and open discussion.

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Hosted by Mershon Center for International Security Studies.