Tanisha Fazal (Ph.D., Stanford University, 2001) is a member of the Institute of War and Peace Studies. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is currently writing a book on the death and survival of states in the international system. She has been a fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. In 2002 she was awarded the Helen Dwight Reid Award of the American Political Science Association.

Research Interests: international security, international relations theory, sovereignty, international law, organization theory.