About
I’m a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse at the Toulouse School of Economics. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for International Conflict - Analysis and Management (CICAM) at Radboud University’s Department of Political Science and a Civil War Paths Fellow at the University of York’s Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2024. My work has been published or is forthcoming in World Development, Journal of Peace Research, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Global Security Studies, and Civil Wars.
My research sits at the intersection of international relations and comparative politics. Much of my work is on the political economy of civil war and political violence, where I study questions related to armed group behavior, rebel governance, armed group leaders, and conflict dynamics. Questions currently motivating my work include: 1) how do armed group funding strategies impact group behavior and governance; and 2) how do armed groups adapt during long conflicts.
In another stream of research, I am a coauthor on multiple research papers and projects that analyze the internal dynamics of international organizations (IOs), aid agencies, and foreign policy bureaucracies. Across both research agendas, I have collected original observational, survey, and archival data, and I employ a variety of methods in my own and coauthored work including quasi-experiments, survey experiments, and text as data approaches. Geographically, I concentrate on the Global South, specifically the Middle East and Africa.
My research has been funded by the Netherlands’ Dutch Research Council (NWO) and Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
Feel free to contact me at joshua.weiner@tse-fr.eu for more information about my research or teaching.