Associate Professor @DukeLaw. Law & political science of conflict, peacebuilding & transitional justice. https://xitter.cf/t.co/DUXX3VJC5Q
Durham, NC
Joined August 2012
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Mara Revkin @mararevkin.bsky.social retweeted
UW has a very late breaking IR search! It isn’t up on APSA yet, but the deadline is November 2nd. UW is a great place to work! I’m on the committee, so feel free to reach out with any questions.
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Mara Revkin @mararevkin.bsky.social retweeted
In a new paper with @MichWeitzel in @ps_polisci, we ask: how well does the field of political science prepare scholars of the Middle East for fieldwork? We surveyed MENA academics and found an important gap between formal training and practice. /1
Mara Revkin @mararevkin.bsky.social retweeted
📢 Attention researchers and practitioners! The International Review of the Red Cross calls for papers on 'Protection of Civilians and International Humanitarian Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence'. Submit by 1 September 2026.
Read more 👉🏽 ms.spr.ly/6018aPHM6
ALT Call for Papers: \u201CProtection of Civilians and International Humanitarian Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence\u201D
Mara Revkin @mararevkin.bsky.social retweeted
Revkin and Gramlick on Fiscal Policing in Civil War DC dlvr.it/TTtLgf
Mara Revkin @mararevkin.bsky.social retweeted
We're hiring! @BarnardCollege Political Science seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor (CP and/or IR). Great colleagues, great students, + NYC.
Reviews begin 9/1. Please reach out w/ questions.
tinyurl.com/yucpptvb
Posting an updated draft as law-review submission season gets underway: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
New with Gage Gramlick: "The Civil War Origins of Fiscal Policing." Data from the DC Metropolitan Police show rapid growth in fine revenue during the Civil War, consistent with theories of wartime state-building & bureaucratic autonomy. Feedback welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
New working paper w/ @JaninaDill: "The Moral Logic of Blame for Civilian Casualties": In survey & interview data, residents of Mosul, Iraq penalize the intentional killing of 5 civilians more than the unintentional killing of 125, & blame is not zero-sum: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
New with Gage Gramlick: "The Civil War Origins of Fiscal Policing." Data from the DC Metropolitan Police show rapid growth in fine revenue during the Civil War, consistent with theories of wartime state-building & bureaucratic autonomy. Feedback welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
Mara Revkin @mararevkin.bsky.social retweeted
Trump's aides are telling him that destroying Iran's infrastructure is fair game.
They are wrong. They are advocating war crimes.
Unfortunately, targeting infrastructure is far from new. See: "The Dangerous Rise of 'Dual-Use' Objects in War."
Also relevant for Iran's strikes on AI data centers: In our 2025 article, we warned that the US' increased targeting of "dual use" objects has eroded the core principle of distinction in war, making it easier for any state to attack critical infrastructure scholarship.law.duke.edu/fac…
Mara Revkin @mararevkin.bsky.social retweeted
🆕South Sudan is one of the most fragile states—but that fragility varies subnationally
@levy_gabriella and @mararevkin led a @DukeU D team to create the Fragility Index, mapping this variation
Their @UNmigration report shows how it can inform recovery⤵️ southsudan.iom.int/sites/g/f…
I appreciate @nytimes reporting on this often-forgotten crisis in Syria, but the article makes a common mistake: conflating 2 *VERY* different populations & sites:
• (1) ISIS combatants in prisons
• (2) civilians, mostly children, in humanitarian "closed camps" ... [thread 1/6]
alleged or convicted combatants & criminals. The @nytimes is correct on this point about camp residents: "[N]one ... have been charged with a crime." But conflating (1) prisons & (2) humanitarian closed camps contributes to stigmatization of the ... nytimes.com/2025/12/10/world… [5/6]
43K civilians, mostly children, who have been trapped in the camps since 2019, making it harder to advocate for the humanitarian aid & repatriation assistance that they desperately need. More on the difference between "closed camps" & prisons here: scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi… [6/6]
ICYMI in a very bad news week: On 9/9, Israel ordered a complete evacuation of Gaza City; aside from clear violations of international law, this powerful visual story by @Josh_H shows how Gaza residents have nowhere to go: nytimes.com/interactive/2025… See also: reuters.com/world/middle-eas…
Where Will Everyone in Gaza City Go? | NYT
nytimes.com/interactive/2025…
Mara Revkin @mararevkin.bsky.social retweeted
1/ Returning from a social media hiatus to share that my first book, Polarization and International Politics, will be released on September 16 with @PrincetonUPress as part of their Studies in International History and Politics Series.
Intentional starvation of civilians as a method of war is *always* a war crime. Non-reciprocity of international humanitarian law means that no amount of alleged aid diversion by Hamas could ever justify this. See also @btselem's report from 1+ year ago: btselem.org/sites/default/fi…
After 4 months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s hospitals now have wards for the malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones. Aid groups had warned of this for more than a year. Now a worst case scenario is upon us. washingtonpost.com/world/202…