Sabrina Karim

About

Sabrina Karim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University. Her research focuses on conflict and peace processes, particularly state building in the aftermath of civil war. She studies international involvement in security assistance to post-conflict states, gender reforms in peacekeeping and domestic security sectors, and the relationship between gender and violence. She directs the Gender and Security Sector Lab, which hosts post-doctoral fellows, graduate fellows, and undergraduate research assistants engaged in research related to women, gender, peacekeeping, policing, and the military. In 2021, she received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award for her work on the domestic and international politics of global police violence. She is the co-author of 'Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping: Women, Peace, and Security in Post-Conflict Countries,' which won the Conflict Research Studies Best Book Prize in 2017 and the American Political Science Association Conflict Processes Best Book Award in 2018, and is also co-author of 'Positioning Women in Conflict Studies: How Women’s Status Affects Political Violence,' forthcoming in 2024. Her work has been published in prominent journals such as the American Political Science Review, International Organization, and the British Journal of Political Science, among others. Her research has received support from various organizations including the Geneva Centre for Security Governance, the Folke…

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Criminology
• Law

Selected publications

• Relational State Building in Areas of Limited Statehood: Experimental Evidence on the Attitudes of the Police

  American Political Science Review · 2020-01-13 · 128 citations

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  Under what conditions does state expansion into limited statehood areas improve perceptions of state authority? Although previous work emphasizes identity or institutional sources of state legitimacy, I argue that relationships between state agents and citizens drive positive attitude formation, because these relationships provide information and facilitate social bonds. Moreover, when state agents and citizens share demographic characteristics, perceptional effects may improve. Finally, citizen…

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• Does More Equality for Women Mean Less War? Rethinking Sex and Gender Inequality and Political Violence

  International Organization · 2021-07-23 · 66 citations

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  Abstract Recent world events, such as the rise of hypermasculine authoritarian leaders, have shown the importance of both sex and gender for understanding international politics. However, quantitative researchers of conflict have long relegated the study of sex and gender inequality as a cause of war to a specialized group of scholars, despite overwhelming evidence that the connections are profound and consequential. In this review essay, we demonstrate the tremendous progress made in this field…

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• Geospatial-based machine learning techniques for land use and land cover mapping using a high-resolution unmanned aerial vehicle image

  Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment · 2022-10-23 · 44 citations

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• Positioning Women in Conflict Studies

  2024-07-22 · 15 citations

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  Abstract This book explores how different types of women’s status, including women’s inclusion (in politics), women’s rights, harm to women, and beliefs about women’s gender roles affect political violence, including interstate war, civil war, repression, and terrorism. However, it argues that before scholars, policymakers, and practitioners can explore these connections, it is important to overcome existing problems in the scholarship—conceptual stretching of gender equality and resulting measu…

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• Boon, bane, or business as usual: Perceptions of the economic consequences of peacekeeping withdrawal from Liberia

  International Interactions · 2024-01-02 · 12 citations

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  <p>Existing studies show that the deployment of a peacekeeping operation (PKO) can provide an economic boost to the host state and its population. Some of those studies also suggest that such a boost is unsustainable and that peacekeeping exit may trigger economic downturn within host states. If that is the case, however, do some locals feel the adverse economic effects of PKO exit more than others? In this article, we argue that individuals who come to directly or indirectly depend on eco…

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Frequent coauthors

• Michael Gilligan

  New York University

  32 shared

• Jenny Guardado

  Georgetown University

  28 shared

• Bernd Beber

  RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research

  28 shared

• Kyle Beardsley

  21 shared

• Robert Blair

  American University

  15 shared

• Benjamin S. Morse

  10 shared

• Daniel W Hill

  10 shared

• Dara Kay Cohen

  Walsh University

  5 shared

Labs

• Gender and Security Sector LabPI

Education

• PhD, Political Science

  Emory University

  2016

Awards & honors

• NSF CAREER Award (2021)
• Conflict Research Studies Best Book Prize for 2017
• American Political Science Association Conflict Processes Be…

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