About

I’m a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for International Conflict - Analysis and Management (CICAM) at Radboud University’s Department of Political Science. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in January 2024. Previously, I was a Civil War Paths Fellow at the University of York’s Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War.

My work on political violence and conflict processes bridges international relations and comparative politics. My substantive focus is on the political economy of armed group adaptation and the impact of armed group leaders on organizational behavior. Much of my research is driven by two related questions: 1) how do armed groups determine the mix of funding strategies they use during conflict; and 2) how do armed group leaders, because of their past experiences or through networks, shape conflict dynamics. Geographically, I concentrate on the Global South, specifically the Middle East and Africa. I employ a variety of methods in my own and coauthored work including quasi-experiments, time series analysis, elite surveys, survey experiments, archival data, and natural language processing.

I have received generous financial support from Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), UBC, and York University.

Feel free to contact me at j.weiner@alumni.ubc.ca for more information about my research or teaching. I’m also on Twitter.