Séverine Autesserre (Barnard College, Columbia University, New York)

Submitted:  Mon, February 22, 2010


Séverine Autesserre
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Barnard College
Columbia University
3009 Broadway
New York, New York 10027-6598 USA

phone:  212-854-4877
fax:    212-854-3024
email:  sa435@columbia.edu


- Research on civil and international wars, international interventions, 
and African politics

- Current research project on local violence and international 
intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo

- African-studies related teaching: classes on African civil wars and on 
aid and politics in Africa


Recent publications:

Forthcoming 2010.  The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence 
and the Failure of International Peacebuilding. Cambridge: 
Cambridge University Press.

"Hobbes and the Congo: Frames, Local Violence, and International 
Intervention," International Organization, Vol. 63, pp. 249-280, 2009.

"Penser les Conflits Locaux: L'Echec de l'Intervention Internationale au
Congo." L'Afrique des Grands Lacs: Annuaire 2007-2008.  Paris : 
L'Harmattan, 2008.

"The Trouble with Congo - How Local Disputes Fuel Regional Violence," 
Foreign Affairs, May/June 2008.

"D.R. Congo: Explaining Peace Building Failures, 2003-2006," Review of
African Political Economy, September 2007.

"Local violence, National Peace? Post-war .settlement. in the Eastern D.R.
Congo," African Studies Review, December 2006.

"The United States 'humanitarian diplomacy' in South Sudan," Journal of
Humanitarian Affairs, January 2002. 
http://jha.ac/

I am also working on a book: Local Violence, International Indifference? 
The Failure of Peace Building in the Congo.