Corinna Jentzsch
Associate professor
- Name
- Dr. C. Jentzsch
- Telephone
- 071 5273456
- c.jentzsch@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0936-6984
Corinna Jentzsch is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University.
More information about Corinna Jentzsch
News
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ERC grant for Corinna Jentzsch: Countering Jihadi insurgencies in Africa -
Ten Leiden researchers awarded ERC Starting Grants -
‘You can’t just go to the field and leave again with data’: meet LUCIR scholar Corinna Jentzsch -
‘The Afghan state has collapsed, but the democratic gains of the past 20 years are not lost’ -
Lessons from Afghanistan: call for papers and policy think pieces -
New co-convener team for LUCIR -
To target or protect? Militias and political order in African civil wars -
Veni grants for 19 young Leiden researchers -
Two Leiden political scientists honoured with NWO ‘Veni’-grant -
Alternative story forms: a fresh approach to historical case material
Selected publications
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Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique -
Auxiliary Armed Forces and Innovations in Security Governance in Mozambique’s Civil War -
L’offre plurielle de sécurité dans le Grand Tunis: Quelles alternatives à l’État pour combler le «vide» sécuritaire? -
4 reasons why Mozambique isn’t a post-war success story
PhD candidates
Corinna Jentzsch is the Principal Investigator of COUNTERRR and an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University. She is a scholar of social movements, civil war, international security, African politics, and fieldwork ethics, and has conducted fieldwork in Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi, and Tunisia. Her current research, supported by an ERC Starting Grant COUNTERRR, focuses on government responses to emerging insurgencies, civilian collective action during civil war, and conflict transformation and escalation.
Her recent book Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique (Cambridge University Press, 2022) examines how and why community-based militias form and spread. Her work has also appeared in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Perspective on Politics, Political Geography, Civil Wars, Africa, ForeignAffairs.com, African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review, and several edited volumes. Her research has been supported by, among others, grants from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and the European Research Council (ERC).
She received her PhD from Yale University, and prior to that studied at Free University Berlin and Sciences Po Paris. She is an associate editor of the International Studies Review, the flagship journal of the International Studies Association.
Associate professor
- Social & Behavioural Sciences
- Political Science
- Jentzsch C. (2016), To target or protect? Militias and political order in African civil wars. Interview. Interviewed by Leiden University. [interview].
- Jentzsch C. (29 February 2016), Falta de diálogo em Moçambique acentua polarização (The lack of dialogue in Mozambique underlines polarization). Interviewed by Deutsche Welle Africa (Portuguese Service). Interviewed by for Deutsche Welle Africa (Portuguese Service). [interview].