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  • 2015 - CQ Press Award for Teaching Innovation, American Political Science Association (APSA)

Overview

Victor Asal is affiliated with the University at Albany, State University of New York in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a strong concentration in sociology and political science, and political science and international relations as key subfields.

Their scholarly work explores themes centered around political conflict and governance, terrorism, counterterrorism, and political violence, as well as regional focuses on politics and conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Middle East. Additional topics covered include innovative teaching methodologies in social sciences, educator training and historical pedagogy, gender, security, and conflict, and nuclear issues and defense.

Asal has contributed to a range of publications, notably in venues such as Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Harvard Dataverse, Terrorism and Political Violence, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, and PS Political Science & Politics. Among their frequently published venues, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism hosts the largest number of their publications.

Frequent collaborators include Charmaine N. Willis, Nakissa Jahanbani, Kyle Beardsley, Daniel J. Gustafson, and Peter Krause.

Representative recent papers by Victor Asal include:

  • Control over Bodies and Territories: Insurgent Territorial Control and Sexual Violence (2021, Security Studies)
  • Doing Good while Killing: Why Some Insurgent Groups Provide Community Services (2020, Terrorism and Political Violence)
  • Why Some Rebel Organizations Attack Americans (2021, Defence and Peace Economics)
  • Counter-Insurgency Strategies and Transnational Attacks by Rebel Groups (2021, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism)
  • Maritime Insurgency (2020, Terrorism and Political Violence)

Victor Asal received the CQ Press Award for Teaching Innovation from the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • The Nature of the Beast: Organizational Structures and the Lethality of Terrorist Attacks

    Victor Asal;R. Karl Rethemeyer

  • Playing Games with International Relations

    Victor Asal

  • Creating Simulations for Political Science Education

    Victor Asal;Elizabeth L. Blake

  • Mediating International Crises Cross-National and Experimental Perspectives

    Jonathan Wilkenfeld;Kathleen Young;Victor Asal;David Quinn

  • Gender ideologies and forms of contentious mobilization in the Middle East

    Victor Asal;Richard Legault;Ora Szekely;Jonathan Wilkenfeld

  • What is driving global obesity trends? Globalization or “modernization”?

    Ashley Fox;Wenhui Feng;Victor Asal

  • Winning with the Bomb

    Kyle Beardsley;Victor Asal

  • Proliferation and International Crisis Behavior

    Victor Asal;Kyle Beardsley

  • The Softest of Targets: A Study on Terrorist Target Selection

    Victor H. Asal;R. Karl Rethemeyer;Irina Anderson;Alfred Stein

  • Why Split? Organizational Splits among Ethnopolitical Organizations in the Middle East:

    Victor Asal;Mitchell Brown;Angela Dalton

  • Original Sin: A Cross-National Study of the Legality of Homosexual Acts

    Victor Asal;Udi Sommer;Paul G. Harwood

  • Mediating International Crises

    Jonathan Wilkenfeld;Kathleen J. Young;David M. Quinn;Victor Asal

  • Constructing International Relations Simulations: Examining the Pedagogy of IR Simulations through a Constructivist Learning Theory Lens.

    Victor Asal;Jayson Kratoville

  • Political Exclusion, Oil, and Ethnic Armed Conflict

    Victor Asal;Michael Findley;James A. Piazza;James Igoe Walsh

  • Close Cousins or Distant Relatives? The Relationship Between Terrorism and Hate Crime:

    Kathleen Deloughery;Ryan D. King;Victor Asal

  • Power Play: Mediation in Symmetric and Asymmetric International Crises

    David Quinn;Jonathan Wilkenfeld;Kathleen Smarick;Victor Asal

  • Consenting to a Child's Decision to Join a Jihad: Insights from a Survey of Militant Families in Pakistan

    Victor Asal;C. Christine Fair;Stephen Shellman

  • Billiard Balls or Snowflakes? Major Power Prestige and the International Diffusion of Institutions and Practices

    Benjamin O. Fordham;Victor Asal

  • Dilettantes, Ideologues, and the Weak: Terrorists Who Don't Kill

    Victor Asal;R. Karl Rethemeyer

  • Killing Range: Explaining Lethality Variance within a Terrorist Organization.

    Victor Asal;Paul Gill;R. Karl Rethemeyer;John Horgan

  • Terrorism as Transnational Advocacy: An Organizational and Tactical Examination

    Victor Asal;Brian Nussbaum;D. William Harrington

  • Nuclear Weapons as Shields

    Kyle Beardsley;Victor Asal

  • I Want You! The Determinants of Military Conscription

    Victor Asal;Justin Conrad;Nathan Toronto

  • Human Rights, NGO Shaming and the Exports of Abusive States

    Timothy M. Peterson;Amanda Murdie;Victor Asal

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Wilkenfeld
Jonathan Wilkenfeld University of Maryland, College Park
Joseph K. Young
Joseph K. Young University of Kentucky
Kyle Beardsley
Kyle Beardsley Duke University
Krishna R. Pattipati
Krishna R. Pattipati University of Connecticut
C. Christine Fair
C. Christine Fair Georgetown University
Christopher M. Federico
Christopher M. Federico University of Minnesota
Michael G. Findley
Michael G. Findley The University of Texas at Austin
Paul Gill
Paul Gill University College London
Joshua D. Freilich
Joshua D. Freilich John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Steven M. Chermak
Steven M. Chermak Michigan State University

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