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Overview

John O'Loughlin is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the social sciences, with particular focus on political science and international relations, sociology and political science, statistics and probability, developmental and educational psychology, and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The scientist has explored a range of topics across their publications, including:

  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Transboundary Water Resource Management
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

John O'Loughlin's recent published papers include:

  • "Directions for Research on Climate and Conflict," 2020, Earth's Future
  • "Weather variability and conflict forecasts: Dynamic human-environment interactions in Kenya," 2021, Political Geography
  • "Do people accurately report droughts? Comparison of instrument-measured and national survey data in Kenya," 2020, Climatic Change
  • "Who are the 'Don't Knows'? Missing Data in Surveys of Post-Soviet Conflict-affected Regions," 2020, Europe Asia Studies
  • "Commercial publishers: What is to be done?" 2020, Geoforum

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Political Geography, Post-Soviet Affairs, Earth's Future, Europe Asia Studies, and Climatic Change. Political Geography notably accounts for multiple publications authored by John O'Loughlin.

Collaboration is an important aspect of John O'Loughlin's research. Frequent co-authors include Gerard Toal, Kristin M. Bakke, Kit Rickard, Stephen Lake, and Campbell Clerke. These partnerships contribute to the breadth of work across political science, conflict studies, and social dynamics.

Best Publications

  • Production, Work, Territory: The Geographical Anatomy of Industrial Capitalism

    John O'Loughlin;Allen J. Scott;Michael Storper

  • Climate as a risk factor for armed conflict

    Katharine J. Mach;Caroline M. Kraan;W. Neil Adger;Halvard Buhaug;Halvard Buhaug

  • The Diffusion of Democracy, 1946–1994

    John O'Loughlin;Michael D. Ward;Corey L. Lofdahl;Jordin S. Cohen

  • Climate variability and conflict risk in East Africa, 1990–2009

    John O’Loughlin;Frank D. W. Witmer;Andrew M. Linke;Arlene Laing

  • One effect to rule them all? A comment on climate and conflict

    H. Buhaug;H. Buhaug;J. Nordkvelle;T. Bernauer;T. Böhmelt

  • The Geography of the Nazi Vote: Context, Confession, and Class in the Reichstag Election of 1930

    John O'Loughlin;Colin Flint;Luc Anselin

  • Effects of temperature and precipitation variability on the risk of violence in sub-Saharan Africa, 1980–2012

    John O’Loughlin;Andrew M. Linke;Frank D. W. Witmer

  • The Localized Geographies of Violence in the North Caucasus of Russia, 1999–2007

    John O’Loughlin;Frank D.W. Witmer

  • Inside the post-Soviet de facto states: a comparison of attitudes in Abkhazia, Nagorny Karabakh, South Ossetia, and Transnistria

    John O’Loughlin;Vladimir Kolossov;Gerard Toal

  • Inside Abkhazia: Survey of Attitudes in a De Facto State

    John O'Loughlin;Vladimir Kolossov;Gerard Toal (Gearóid Tuathail)

  • Reconciliation in Conflict-Affected Societies: Multilevel Modeling of Individual and Contextual Factors in the North Caucasus of Russia

    Kristin M. Bakke;John O'Loughlin;Michael D. Ward

  • Russian geopolitical culture and public opinion: the masks of Proteus revisited

    John O'Loughlin;Gearóid Ó Tuathail;Vladimir Kolossov

  • Bringing geography back to the study of international relations: Spatial dependence and regional context in Africa, 1966–1978

    John O'loughlin;Luc Anselin

  • Peering into the Fog of War: The Geography of the WikiLeaks Afghanistan War Logs, 2004-2009

    John O'Loughlin;Frank D. W. Witmer;Andrew M. Linke;Nancy Thorwardson

  • Convincing State-Builders? Disaggregating Internal Legitimacy in Abkhazia

    Kristin M. Bakke;John O'Loughlin;Gerard Toal;Michael D. Ward

  • Pseudo‐States as Harbingers of a new geopolitics: The example of the trans‐dniester Moldovan republic (TMR)

    Vladimir Kolossov;John O'Loughlin

  • A ‘Risky Westward Turn’? Putin's 9–11 Script and Ordinary Russians

    John O'Loughlin;Gearo´id O´ Tuathail;Vladimir Kolossov

  • Extreme temperatures and violence

    Clionadh Raleigh;Andrew Linke;John O'Loughlin

  • Detecting the Effects of Wars in the Caucasus Regions of Russia and Georgia Using Radiometrically Normalized DMSP-OLS Nighttime Lights Imagery

    Frank D. W. Witmer;John O'Loughlin

  • Rainfall variability and violence in rural Kenya: investigating the effects of drought and the role of local institutions with survey data

    Andrew M. Linke;John O’Loughlin;J. Terrence McCabe;Jaroslav Tir

  • Geo-Economic Competition and Trade Bloc Formation: United States, German, and Japanese Exports, 1968–1992

    John O'Loughlin;Luc Anselin

  • Subnational violent conflict forecasts for sub-Saharan Africa, 2015–65, using climate-sensitive models:

    Frank Dw Witmer;Andrew M Linke;John O’Loughlin;Andrew Gettelman

  • New borders for new world orders: territorialities at the fin-de-siecle

    Vladimir Kolossov;John O'Loughlin

  • Drought, Local Institutional Contexts, and Support for Violence in Kenya:

    Andrew M. Linke;Frank D. W. Witmer;John O’Loughlin;J. Terrence McCabe

Frequent Co-Authors

James D. Sidaway
James D. Sidaway National University of Singapore
Halvard Buhaug
Halvard Buhaug Peace Research Institute
Michael D. Ward
Michael D. Ward Duke University
Cullen S. Hendrix
Cullen S. Hendrix University of Denver
Marshall Burke
Marshall Burke Stanford University
Jaroslav Tir
Jaroslav Tir University of Colorado Boulder
Luc Anselin
Luc Anselin University of Chicago
Jürgen Scheffran
Jürgen Scheffran Universität Hamburg
Katharine J. Mach
Katharine J. Mach University of Miami

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