Aila M. Matanock

Aila M. Matanock is associate professor at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. Her research addresses post-conflict elections, and, most recently, how international and non-state actors engage in security and state security sector reform. Her Cambridge University Press book, “Electing Peace: From Civil Conflict to Political Participation,” won the 2018 Levine Memorial Book Prize. Her work has also been published in Comparative Political Studies, Daedalus, Foreign Affairs, the Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics and elsewhere. She won the 2024 International Studies Association’s Karl Deutsch award for the most significant contribution to the study of International Relations and Peace Research from a scholar under 45. She has held fellowships at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation and UC San Diego’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Matanock previously worked at the University of California, Berkeley, and, prior to her Ph.D., the RAND Corporation and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and her A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard University.

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Education and CV

Ph.D. in Political Science, Stanford University, 2012
A.B. in Social Studies, Harvard University, 2005
CV

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