Megan Stewart

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Amy Beck Harris helps students understand the “how” of international development

Dec 17, 2024

Before becoming an academic, Ford School Lecturer Amy Beck Harris worked in international development and foreign assistance implementation across Latin America with Chemonics International, the largest international development firm that implements ...

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Amy Beck Harris helps students understand the “how” of international development

Apr 4, 2024

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Stewart receives prestigious APSA book award

Apr 1, 2024

Associate professor and International Policy Center director Megan Stewart will be honored with the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) 2021-2022 Conflict Processes Section’s Best Book Award for her book, Governing for Revolution: Social ...

Stewart receives prestigious APSA book award

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Meet Megan Stewart

Dec 12, 2023

Expert on inequality and political violence now directs the Ford School’s International Policy Center As an undergraduate, associate professor Megan Stewart took a class on Middle East politics and became interested in how a political movement, like...

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International Policy Center starts the year with new faces and initiatives

Aug 21, 2023

The Ford School’s International Policy Center (IPC) welcomes a new director, Profesor Megan Stewart, for the 2023-2024 academic year. IPC will expand its efforts to support cutting-edge research related to pressing global phenomena while maintaining ...

International Policy Center starts the year with new faces and initiatives

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Stewart investigates role of assimilationist education in rise of leftist rebel groups

Feb 22, 2023

What explains the emergence of leftist rebel groups during the Cold War? In a new paper in the European Journal of International Relations, associate professor Megan Stewart dives into this question, addressing the rise of leftist rebel groups in cou...

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Stewart details the potentially drastic effects of another Turkish invasion in Syria

Jan 6, 2023

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vowed on November 20, 2022, that another ground invasion of Syria would take place after launching a series of airstrikes targeting northern Syria and Iraq. In an article for the Middle East Institute, Professor...

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This year in international policy at the Ford School – fall 2022

Sep 27, 2022

An impressive slate of core and visiting faculty help make the Ford School a hub for engagement with the foreign policy community and a national leader in international policy education. The Weiser Diplomacy Center (WDC) and International Policy Cent...

This year in international policy at the Ford School – fall 2022

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Ciorciari and Tompkins-Stange promoted; noted expert Megan Stewart joins the faculty

May 19, 2022

On May 19, the Regents of the University of Michigan approved three faculty developments that further strengthen the Ford School faculty. Longtime faculty members John Ciorciari and Megan Tompkins-Stange received promotions: Ciorciari to full prof...

Ciorciari and Tompkins-Stange promoted; noted expert Megan Stewart joins the faculty

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The Progressive Case for American Power: Retrenchment Would Do More Harm Than Good

June 18, 2024

Megan A. Stewart (University of Michigan), Jonathan B. Petkun (Duke University), Mara R. Revkin (Duke University)

AbstractAfter more than 20 years of costly military adventures, the United States has failed to root out extremism or bring liberal democracy to the oppressed. Thousands of American soldiers have lost their lives in the failed wars in Afghanistan, Ir...

Working papers

Foundations of the vanguard: The origins of leftist national liberation rebel groups

October 18, 2021

Megan Stewart (University of Michigan)

Abstract: What explains the emergence of leftist national liberation rebel groups? I argue that in imperial settings in the late-19th to mid-20th centuries, assimilatory education programs drew colonial elites to the imperial metropole. There, coloni...

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Governing for revolution: Social transformation in civil war

March 5, 2021

Megan A. Stewart (University of Michigan)

Abstract: Prevailing views suggest rebels govern to enhance their organizational capacity, but this project demonstrates that some rebels undertake costly governance projects that can imperil their cadres during war. The origins for this choice began...

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A typology of rebel political institutional arrangements

June 25, 2020

Zachariah Mampilly (Vassar College), Megan Stewart (University of Michigan)

Abstract: What are the different political institutions rebels create to engage captive civilian populations, and how do they arrive at distinct political arrangements? Rebel-controlled territories host a diversity of political institutions ranging f...