Senior Lecturer, International Development Department, University of Birmingham
Nicolas joined the International Development Department in 2011 having previously taught at the Economics Department of the University of Quebec at Montreal. Nicolas' research interests include state building and peace building, local resistance to international interventions, and the political economy of interventions. His latest book is Semantics of Statebuilding (with N. Onuf, V. Rakic, and P. Bojanic; Routledge, 2016)
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Dec 04, 2016 02:00 am UTC| Insights & Views
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