Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl
Senior assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. J.B. Schulhofer-Wohl
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 3903
- j.b.schulhofer-wohl@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-9259-7307
Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl is Senior Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University.
Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl is Senior Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University. His research agenda, on the conduct of civil wars, includes an empirical focus on the Middle East, but addresses questions about civil wars as a general matter, and draws on comparisons across diverse countries.
Schulhofer-Wohl’s core research projects study the interaction between civil war belligerents at three levels of analysis: quagmire as the macro-level result of the interaction between the warring parties; warfighting choices, focusing on alliance behavior and the operational goals of fighting, both meso-level behaviors; and, at the micro-level, the behavioral determinants of individual actions in situations of group conflict.
Schulhofer-Wohl’s work has been published in International Security, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Rationality and Society, and Science. His first book, Quagmire in Civil War, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.
Before joining the faculty at Leiden, Schulhofer-Wohl taught at the University of Virginia and as a visiting assistant professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has held fellowships in the Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative and International Security Program and in the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at the School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University.
PhD supervision
Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl is available to supervise PhD students and invites PhD candidates to send research proposals in the areas of:
- civil war and political violence
- (counter)terrorism and (counter)insurgency
- ethnic politics
- Middle Eastern politics
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Senior assistant professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Politieke Wetenschap
- Buehler M. & Schulhofer-Wohl J. (2023), The international sources of prejudice against Shi‘a in the Middle East and North Africa: original survey evidence from Morocco, Mediterranean Politics 28(3): 463-491.
- Koehler K. & Schulhofer-Wohl J. (2022), Governing the COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa: Containment measures as a public good, Middle East Law and Governance 14(1): 5-25.
- Boulu-Reshef B. & Schulhofer-Wohl J. (2022), The impact of distance on parochial altruism: an experimental investigation, European Journal of Political Economy 75: 102222.
- Schulhofer-Wohl J. (2021), The Obama administration and civil war in Syria, 2011–2016: US presidential foreign policy making as political risk management, Journal of Transatlantic Studies 19(4): 517–547.
- Schulhofer-Wohl J. (2020), On-side fighting in civil war: the logic of mortal alignment in Syria, Rationality and Society 32(4): 402--460.
- Schulhofer-Wohl J. (2020), Quagmire in Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Sambanis N. & Schulhofer-Wohl J. (2019), Sovereignty Rupture as a Central Concept in Quantitative Measures of Civil War, Journal of Conflict Resolution 63(6): 1542-1578.
- Schulhofer-Wohl J. (2018), Syria, Productive Antinomy, and the Study of Civil War, Perspectives on Politics 16(4): 1085-1091.
- Schulhofer-Wohl J. (2014), Armed Group Repertoires and Recollection in Survey Research no. 171. Households in Conflict Network. [working paper].
- Sambanis N., Schulhofer-Wohl J. & Shayo M. (2012), Parochialism as a Central Challenge in Counterinsurgency, Science 336(6083): 805-808.
- Schulhofer-Wohl J. & Sambanis N. (2010), Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration Programs: An Assessment. Sandöverken, Sweden: Folke Bernadotte Academy Publication.
- Sambanis N. & Schulhofer-Wohl J. (2009), What's in a line? Is partition a solution to civil war?, International Security 34(2): 82-118.