Research
Central America
Social Sciences, Social Science
Institutional Change
Peace Research
Latin America
Area Studies
Asylum
Corruption
Immigration
Migration
Political Science
Refugees, Refugee
Security
Violence
Civil War
Transitional Justice
Policy Analysis
Civil Society
International Assistance
List of Publications (15)
In 2023
15
Central America (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in Spring 2023)
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In 2022
14
2022. "Nicaragua: Populist Performance and Authoritarian Practice during COVID- 19" (with Kai M. Thaler). Populists and the Pandemic: How Populists Around the World Responded to COVID-19. Eds. Nils Ringe and Lucio Renno . Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy. London: Routledge. 184-195. Available open access: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003197614.
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In 2021
13
"Rethinking the State-Armed Conflict-Organized Crime Nexus" 2021. "The Biden Administration has pledged significant aid to Central America.
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In 2020
12
Recipient of the APSA 2020 Gabriel A. Almond Award for the best PROJECTS IN PROGRESS COMMENTARY & POLICY ANALYSIS 2020. "Civil War, Institutional Change, and the Criminalization of the State: Evidence from Guatemala." Studies in Comparative International Development 55(3): 381-401. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-020-09312-7.
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2020. "Guatemala: The Military in Politics" (with Anita Isaacs). Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1893.
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In 2019
10
2019. "Guatemala will elect a new president on Sunday. Here are three things to know." The Monkey Cage, The Washington Post, August 9.
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9
2019. "A Victory for Guatemala's Pacto de Corruptos," NACLA Report on the Americas (online), June 21.
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8
2019. "Guatemala's Anti-Corruption Struggle Teeters on the Edge," NACLA Report on the Americas (magazine) 51(2): 200-205.
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In 2018
7
2018. "What Drives Violence against Civilians in Civil War? Evidence from Guatemala's Conflict Archives" (with Scott Straus). Journal of Peace Research 55(2): 222-235. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343317749272.
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2018. "Rethinking Comparison in the Social Sciences" (with Erica S. Simmons and Nicholas Rush Smith). Qualitative and Multi-Method Research 16(1): 1-7. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2562143.
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2018. "From Reconciliation to Rule of Law: The Shifting Landscape of International Transitional Justice Assistance in Guatemala" (with Anita Isaacs). Transitional Justice, International Assistance, and Civil Society: Missed Connections. Eds. Paige Arthur and Christalla Yakinthou. New York: Cambridge University Press. 27-51. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316711347.
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RACHEL A. SCHWARTZ Department of International and Area Studies Tel: +1 (321) 287-8004
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3
"A Durable, but Impoverished Peace: Evaluating 25 Years of Peacebuilding in Guatemala" (chapter submitted for edited volume on Guatemalan politics, under contract with Rowman & Littlefield)
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2
"International Anti-Corruption Missions in Latin America: Pathways of Emergence" "Overcoming the Crisis of Research Design: Rethinking Comparison in the Field" "Counterinsurgency as Statebuilding" (with Reo Matsuzaki)
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1
But where should it go and how should it get there?" Voces, The Inter-American Dialogue, April 22.
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