{"id":41,"date":"2014-03-17T22:28:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T22:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/oszekely\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2025-05-02T18:59:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:59:03","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/oszekely\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/cup.columbia.edu\/book\/syria-divided\/9780231205399\">most recent book<\/a> examines the dynamics of the Syrian civil war, including the rivalries, motivations, and ideological commitments of the various participants in the conflict.&nbsp;I am also interested in field research methodology, the subject of the book and <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/stories-from-the-field\/id1550505169\">podcast<\/a> I edited and co-host with Peter Krause.<\/p>\n<p>Some additional broad questions that I and my (various, terrific) co-authors are interested in include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How do ideas about gender shape the conduct of civil wars (and the plots of superhero movies and comic books?)<\/li>\n<li>Why do some ethno-political organizations choose violent tactics, while others choose nonviolence?<\/li>\n<li>How do bureaucratic politics shape policy making in counterinsurgency?<\/li>\n<li>What is the causal link between social service provision and improved election performance for militant political organizations?<\/li>\n<li>How do states decide which nonstate armed groups to sponsor?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>\u00a9 Ora Szekely. All rights reserved.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My most recent book examines the dynamics of the Syrian civil war, including the rivalries, motivations, and ideological commitments of the various participants in the conflict.&nbsp;I am also interested in field research methodology, the subject of the book and podcast&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/oszekely\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/oszekely\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/oszekely\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/oszekely\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/oszekely\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/oszekely\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/oszekely\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}