The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies presents:

Book Talk: Death, Domination, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention

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Event Details:

Tuesday, March 19, 2024
12pm-2pm
Room 1302, International Affairs Building

Moderated by Jack Snyder, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, Columbia University

With Roger Petersen, Author, Death, Domination, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention; Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, MIT

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About the author:

Roger Petersen holds BA, MA, and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago. He has taught at MIT since 2001 and is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science. Petersen focuses on within-state conflict and violence. He has written four books: Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, Resentment in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Western Intervention in the Balkans: The Strategic Use of Emotion in Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and “Death, Domination, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention, (Oxford University Press, 2024).” He has taught classes on military intervention, civil war, civil-military relations, and emotions in politics, as well as classes focusing on regional conflicts in the Balkans and the Middle East.