Program Highlight | Winter 2007-2008
State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation
An Evening with Tanisha Fazal
DATE: February 27
TIME: 7 pm
LOCATION: Book Culture, 536 W. 112th St. (b/w Bway & Amsterdam)
Professor Fazal will read from her book, State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation and will be interviewed by Charles Tilly
"State Death is a pathbreaking study of how and why states 'die' or are eliminated from the international system. Despite previous attention to the issues of war, state emergence and failure, and strategies for success, the phenomenon of state death has not previously received systematic attention. Fazal deserves enormous credit for introducing the discipline of international relations to what should have been a topic of long-standing interest."
—David A. Lake, University of California, San Diego
"The book is one of the first—and definitely the best—to examine the fundamental question far too oft overlooked: what behavior, exactly, allows states to survive? Fazal tackles an extremely important topic—the causes of 'state death'—which has broad ramifications for competing theoretical frameworks in international relations as well as for policy. I am confident this book will feature on many syllabi for years to come."
—Hein Goemans, University of Rochester
Tanisha Fazal is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Columbia. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is currently writing a book on the death and survival of states in the international system. She has been a fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. In 2002 she was awarded the Helen Dwight Reid Award of the American Political Science Association.
