Anastasia Shesterinina

Professor Anastasia Shesterinina is Chair in Comparative Politics and Founding Director of the Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War at the University of York. She leads the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded Civil War Paths project “Understanding Civil War from Pre- to Post-War Stages: A Comparative Approach.” She is also the Senior Qualitative Methods Expert of the FCDO funded Beyond Compliance Consortium. Her book Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia (Cornell University Press, 2021) received the 2022 Charles Taylor Book Award of the American Political Science Association and Davis Center Book Prize of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Her research on the dynamics of civil war has been published in American Political Science Review, Journal of Peace Research, European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies and other journals.

Beyond Compliance Symposium: Beyond typologies of actors: ambiguous boundaries in non-international armed conflicts

By Anastasia Shesterinina / September 24, 2024

Editors’ note: This post forms part of the Beyond Compliance Symposium: How to Prevent Harm and Need in Conflict, featured across Articles of War and Armed Groups and International Law. The introductory post can be found here. The symposium invites reflection on the conceptualisation of negative everyday lived experiences of armed conflict, and legal and extra-legal strategies that can effectively address …

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