Stathis N. Kalyvas (born 7 March, 1964) is a
Greek political scientist
Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and l ...
who is the Gladstone Professor of Government, at the
University of Oxford and a University Academic Fellow at
All Souls College, Oxford
All Souls College (official name: College of the Souls of All the Faithful Departed) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows (i.e., full members of t ...
. He has held professorial positions at
Yale University (from 2003 to 2017), as well as the
University of Chicago,
New York University, and
Ohio State University. He has also conducted research at the
Peace Research Institute Oslo
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO; no, Institutt for fredsforskning) is a private research institution in peace and conflict studies, based in Oslo, Norway, with around 100 employees. It was founded in 1959 by a group of Norwegian researcher ...
. Kalyvas has written extensively on
civil war
A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country).
The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policie ...
s,
ethnicity, and
political violence.
He wrote ''
The Logic of Violence in Civil War
''The Logic of Violence in Civil War'' is a book which challenges the conventional view of violence in civil wars as irrational. The book presents a theory for levels of violence, as well as why selective violence (targeting individuals) and indis ...
''.
Bibliography
Modern Greece: What everyone needs to know. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015
Order, Conflict, Violence. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008 (edited with Ian Shapiro and Tarek Massoud)
The Logic of Violence in Civil War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006
The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006
In Greek
Που είμαστε και που πάμε; Διατρέχοντας την κρίση (2009-2016) και ατενίζοντας το μέλλον [Where Are We and Where Are We Going? The Crisis (2009-2016) and the Future Athens: Metechmio, 2016]
Εμφύλια πάθη. [Civil War Passions(co-authored with Nikos Marantzidis). Athens: Metechmio, 2015]
και θρίαμβοι. Οι 7 κύκλοι της σύγχρονης ελληνικής ιστορίας [Disasters and Triumphs: The 7 cycles of Modern Greek History Athens: Papadopoulos, 2015]
Ανατομία της κρίσης natomy of the Crisis(co-authored with Thanos Veremis, George Pagoulatos, Theodoros Couloumbis, Loukas Tsoukalis, and Haridimos Tsoukas). Athens: Skai, 2011
Ανορθόδοξοι Πόλεμοι: Μακεδονία, Εμφύλιος, Κύπρος [Irregular Wars: Macedonia, Civil War, Cyprus(co-edited with Vassilis K. Gounaris and Ioannis Stefanidis). Athens: Patakis, 2010]
References
Sources
*https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/3400
*https://stathiskalyvas.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/cv_kalyvas.pdf
Stathis Kalyvas, University of Oxford, Department of Politics and International Relations
Greek political scientists
Historians of modern Greece
Yale University faculty
Academics of the University of Oxford
University of Chicago Booth School of Business faculty
Living people
1964 births
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