Page Fortna
Affiliations
- Faculty Fellow, Department of Political Science
- Organizer, Columbia University International Politics Seminar
Research
Page Fortna is an Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the durability of peace in the aftermath of both civil and interstate wars. She is the author of Peace Time: Cease-Fire Agreements and the Durability of Peace (Princeton University Press, 2004), and has published articles in World Politics, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, and the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. She is currently working on a project evaluating the effectiveness of peacekeeping in civil wars, as well as a project on long-term historical trends in war termination.
She has been a Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University (2004-2005) and a Visiting Fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, MA (2002-2003). Before coming to Columbia, Fortna was a pre-doctoral and then a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Her graduate work was done in the Government Department at Harvard University (Ph.D. 1998). Before graduate school, she worked at the Henry L. Stimson Center, a think tank in Washington DC. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University.
Fortna teaches classes on international politics, war termination, cooperation and security, and research methods.
Selected Work
- Peacekeeping and the Peacekept: Maintaining Peace after Civil War Manuscript in progress. Full draft expected Fall 2005.
- Peace Time: Cease-Fire Agreements and the Durability of Peace Princeton University Press, 2004.
- Â"Interstate Peacekeeping: Causal Mechanisms and Empirical Effects.Â" World Politics. Forthcoming, Vol. 56, No. 4 July 2004.
- Â"Does Peacekeeping Keep Peace? International Intervention and the Duration of Peace after Civil War.Â" International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 2, June 2004, pp. 269-92.
See Also
- Research grant: The Political Decisiveness of War
- Seed grant: The Changing Meaning of War
- Featured publication: Peace Time: Cease-Fire Agreements and the Durability of Peace
