Paul Staniland

About Paul Staniland

Paul Staniland is a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he serves as associate department chair and sits on the faculty boards of the Center for International Social Science in Delhi. He previously served two terms as faculty director of the Committee on International Relations MA program. Staniland is a nonresident scholar in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and co-editor of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs book series.

His research focuses on political violence and international security, with a regional emphasis on South and Southeast Asia. His first book, Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse, was published by Cornell University Press. His second book, Ordering Violence: Explaining Armed Group-State Relations from Conflict to Cooperation, was published by Cornell. Staniland has published in a variety of academic and policy journals. In addition to book and dissertation awards, Staniland received the 2022 Karl Deutsch Award for contributions to the study of international relations and peace research from the International Studies Association. He is currently writing a book about the effects of major power competition on "swing" states in Asia and beyond.