Jesse Driscoll

Jesse Driscoll is a professor of political science and serves as chair of the Global Leadership Institute at the school. He is an area specialist in Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Russian-speaking world. Driscoll’s first book, Warlords and Coalition Politics in Post-Soviet States, (Cambridge University Press, 2015) maps the processes by which well-functioning domestic hierarchies emerged after relatively short periods of anarchic violence in Georgia and Tajikistan. His second book, Doing Global Fieldwork: A Social Scientist’s Guide to Mixed-Methods Research Far From Home (Columbia University Press, 2021) is a practitioner's guide to assist in collecting original data. His third book, joint work with Dominique Arel, is Ukraine’s Unnamed War: Before the Russian Invasion of 2022 (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

For more information, please visit Jesse Driscoll’s personal site. 

Education and CV

Ph.D., Political Science, Stanford University, 2009
M.A., Security Studies, Georgetown University, 2001
B.S., Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 2001
CV

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