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Erik Melander

Erik Melander

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Political Science

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24
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4639
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1656
National Ranking
28

Overview

Erik Melander is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden and works primarily within the social sciences. Their research addresses a range of topics intersecting gender, security, conflict, and political dynamics. Melander's work contributes to subfields including gender studies, political science and international relations, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, and history.

Their recent publications focus on issues such as armed violence, patriarchal values, and the sociopolitical context of Southeast Asia. A notable publication includes Armed Violence and Patriarchal Values: A Survey of Young Men in Thailand and Their Military Experiences (2022) published in the American Political Science Review. This paper examines gender, security, and social norms within military contexts.

Melander's research topics include:

  • Gender, Security, and Conflict
  • Gender Politics and Representation
  • Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
  • Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
  • Global Peace and Security Dynamics
  • Economic Sanctions and International Relations
  • Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Melander encompass the following scholars:

  • Jason Quinn
  • Madhav Joshi
  • Elin Bjarnegård
  • Anders Engvall
  • Srisompob Jitpiromsri

Melander has contributed data and documentation to the Harvard Dataverse, reflecting involvement in data-driven research and replication efforts. This includes multiple datasets and replication materials published between 2020 and 2022 such as Replication Data for: Armed Violence and Patriarchal Values: A Survey of Young Men in Thailand and their Military Experiences (2022) and other datasets related to systemic peace and survey data.

Key publication venues for Melander include:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • American Political Science Review

Their work integrates interdisciplinary approaches from social sciences fields and sheds light on the intersections of gender, conflict, and political structures, particularly in Southeast Asia. This scholarly effort aligns with broader themes in global peace, security, and feminisms as studied through historical and contemporary lenses.

Best Publications

  • Introducing the UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset

    Ralph Sundberg;Erik Melander

  • Gender Equality and Intrastate Armed Conflict

    Erik Melander

  • Dyadic Dimensions of Armed Conflict, 1946—2007

    Lotta Harbom;Erik Melander;Peter Wallensteen

  • Organized violence, 1989–2015

    Erik Melander;Therése Pettersson;Lotta Themnér

  • Political Gender Equality and State Human Rights Abuse

    Erik Melander

  • Are ‘New Wars’ More Atrocious? Battle Severity, Civilians Killed and Forced Migration Before and After the End of the Cold War

    Erik Melander;Magnus Öberg;Jonathan Hall

  • The Threat of Violence and Forced Migration : Geographical Scope Trumps Intensity of Fighting

    Erik Melander;Magnus Öberg

  • Time to Go? Duration Dependence in Forced Migration

    Erik Melander;Magnus Öberg

  • Disentangling gender, peace and democratization: the negative effects of militarized masculinity

    Elin Bjarnegård;Erik Melander

  • Selected To Go Where Murderers Lurk? The Preventive Effect of Peacekeeping on Mass Killings of Civilians

    Erik Melander

  • The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Revisited: Was the War Inevitable?

    Erik Melander

  • The Peace Continuum: What It Is and How to Study It

    Christian Davenport;Erik Melander;Patrick Regan

  • Anarchy Within: The Security Dilemma Between Ethnic Groups in Emerging Anarchy

    Erik Melander

  • Organized Violence in the World 2015 : An Assessment by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program

    Erik Melander

  • Sequencing the Peace: How the Order of Peace Agreement Implementation Can Reduce the Destabilizing Effects of Post-accord Elections

    Madhav Joshi;Erik Melander;Erik Melander;Jason Michael Quinn

  • Major Armed Conflicts

    Ramses Amer;Birger Heldt;Signe Landgren;Kjell Magnusson

  • The Geography of Fear : Regional Ethnic Diversity, the Security Dilemma, and Ethnic War

    Erik Melander

  • Managing Intrastate Low-Intensity Armed Conflict 1993–2004: A New Dataset

    Erik Melander;Frida Möller;Magnus Öberg

  • The Peace Continuum

    Christian Davenport;Erik Melander;Patrick Regan

  • In-depth neuropharmacokinetic analysis of antipsychotics based on a novel approach to estimate unbound target-site concentration in CNS regions: link to spatial receptor occupancy.

    Irena Loryan;Erik Melander;M. Svensson;M. Payan

  • Honor and Political Violence : Micro-level findings from a Survey in Thailand

    Elin Bjarnegård;Karen Brounéus;Erik Melander

  • Revisiting Representation: Communism, Women in Politics, and the Decline of Armed Conflict in East Asia

    Elin Bjarnegård;Erik Melander

  • Climate Change, Environmental Stress, and Violent Conflict: Tests Introducing the New Uppsala Conflict Data Program Georeferenced Event Dataset (UCDP GED)

    Erik Melander;Ralph O. Sundberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Wallensteen
Peter Wallensteen Uppsala University
Christian Davenport
Christian Davenport University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Sofie Sjögersten
Sofie Sjögersten University of Nottingham
Ulf Göransson
Ulf Göransson Uppsala University
Nils Petter Gleditsch
Nils Petter Gleditsch Peace Research Institute
Håvard Hegre
Håvard Hegre Uppsala University
Lisa Hultman
Lisa Hultman Uppsala University

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