Séverine Autesserre
Assistant Professor
 
International Relations and Foreign Policy

Address
419 Lehman Hall, Barnard College, Columbia University
3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027-6598
Tel: 212-854-4877; Fax: 212-854-3024; E-mail: sa435@columbia.edu

Schedule:   Fall   Spring   On leave Fall 2010 – Spring 2011

Web:   www.columbia.edu/~sa435/

Research Interests
International politics
Peacekeeping and peacebuilding
Civil & international wars
International intervention
African politics
Politics of humanitarian and development aid

Courses
POLS V 3604	Civil Wars and International Interventions in Africa
POLS BC 3761x-3762y	Senior Research Seminar in International Relations
POLS BC 3810	Colloquium on Aid, Politics and Violence in Africa, Spring'08
INAF U8869	Civil Wars & Peace Settlements (graduate-level seminar at SIPA)
Course Evaluations	On-line, in PDF

In the News

• Television
  - An August 11, 2009 interview on Channel Thirteen's Worldfocus about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to the Congo.
  - Charlie Rose Show: A discussion about the conflict in the Congo and a clip on the first steps to solving the Congo Crisis (December 4, 2008).
  
  
• Radio
  - Worldfocus talk show on BlogTalkRadio: Crisis in Congo (December 16, 2008).
  - WKCR show on Crisis in Congo : link to overview and link to interview (November 18, 2008).
  
  
• Newspapers & Magazines
  Quoted in The New Republic (USA), Valeurs Actuelles (France), El Nacional (Venezuela), El Mercurio (Chile), Expresso (Portugal), the Washington Post (USA) ; Newsweek (USA), Reliefweb (UN), the Columbia Political Review (USA), InterPress Service News Agency (Italy), and the Columbia Spectator (USA).

Education

• Ph.D., New York University, 2006
  Dissertation: Local Violence, International Indifference? Post-conflict 'settlement' in the Eastern D.R. Congo (2003-2005)
• M.I.A., Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, 2000
• M.A., Sciences-Po, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, 1999
• B.A., Sorbonne University, 1997

Publications

• Book in Progress
  Failing the Congo: International Intervention and Local Violence. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press; accepted in May 2009, publication forthcoming).
   
  
• Articles in Refereed Journals
  "D. R. Congo: Explaining Peace Building Failures, 2003-2006," Review of African Political Economy, Vol.34 No.113 (September 2007), pp.423-442.
   
  "Local violence, National Peace? Post-war 'settlement' in the Eastern D.R. Congo," African Studies Review, Vol.49 No.3 (December 2006), pp.1-29.
   
  "The United States 'humanitarian diplomacy' in South Sudan," Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, January 2002.
   
  
• Revise & Resubmit
  "Hobbes and the Congo - Frames, Local Violence, and International Intervention,” International Organization, forthcoming 2009.
   
  
• Book Chapter
  “Penser les Conflits Locaux: L’Echec de l’Intervention Internationale au Congo” Forthcoming in L’Afrique des Grands Lacs : Annuaire 2007-2008. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2008.
   
  
• Policy Articles
  “Peacetime Violence. Post-Conflict Violence and Peace-Building Strategies.” Program on States and Security. Forthcoming.
   
  “The Trouble with Congo - How Local Disputes Fuel Regional Violence,” Foreign Affairs, May/June 2008.
   
  "Local Violence, International Indifference? The Politics of the Peace Process in the Eastern D.R. Congo," Inter-University Consortium on Humanitarian Aid, December 2004.
   
  "Kongo'da siddet ve ölüm kültürü" (Violence and the Culture of Death in the Congo), Birikim [Turkish semi-academic journal], Volume 174, October 2003, 88-96, translated by K. Caliskan.

Selected Fellowships and Awards

• Mellon Faculty Diversity Fellowship and New Faculty Fellowship, Barnard College, 2007
• Nominated for APSA Helen D. Reid award for best dissertation in international relations, 2007
• Graduate Student Paper Prize Award, African Studies Association, 2006
• Mellon Dissertation-Writing Fellow in Security and Humanitarian Action, 2006
• Peace Fellow, United States Institute of Peace, 2004-2005
• Mellon Research Fellow in Security and Humanitarian Action, 2004
• McCracken Fellow, New York University, 2001-2004 / 2005-2006
• Fulbright Fellow, Columbia University, 1999-2000
• Summa Cum Laude and top 5% (Mention Lauréat), M.A., Sciences-Po, 1999
• Valedictorian (Major de la Promotion), Summa Cum Laude (Mention Bien), B.A., Sorbonne University, 1997

Curriculum Vitæ:   July 2009

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