Andrew C. Shaver - Scholars at Princeton

Andrew C. Shaver
Contact
Information
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
Robertston Hall
Princeton, NJ 08540
Focus
Causes of terrorism and insurgency; the role of territory in non-state violence; risk
Education
Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton, NJ
cell: 801.599.3926
e-mail: [email protected]
web: scholar.princeton.edu/ashaver
Ph.D., Security Studies, 2016 (expected)
• Advisers: Jacob N. Shapiro, Robert Keohane, David Carter
• Fields: International Security; International Relations; Quantitative Methods
M.A., Public Affairs, 2014
M.P.A., International Relations (with Distinction on Qualifying Exams), 2012
Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT
B.S., Majors: Economics; International Business. Minor: Spanish Language. (summa cum laude), 2007
Research
Book Chapters
• Shaver, Andrew. “How Defense Department Spending Was Used to Resuscitate Local Business: A Select
History of Civilian-Military Engagement in Iraq.” Unity of Mission: Civilian-Military Teaming, Past,
Present and Future. Washington, D.C.: NDU Press, In Press.
Articles
• Centeno, Miguel, Manish Nag, Thayer Paterson, Andrew Shaver, and Jason Windawi. “The Emergence
of Global Systemic Risk.” at Annual Review of Sociology (2015).
• Bollfrass, Alex, and Andrew Shaver. “The Effects of Temperature on Political Violence: Global Evidence
at the Subnational Level.” “Minor Revise” at PLOS ONE (2014).
• Shaver, Andrew, David Carter, and Tsering Shawa. “Terrain Ruggedness and Land Use: New Data.”
Under Review (2014).
Policy Analysis
• Shaver, Andrew and Yang Yang Zhou. “How to make surveys in war zones better, and why this is
important.” The Washington Post (2015).
• Shaver, Andrew. “Turning the lights off on the Islamic State.” The Washington Post (2014).
• Shaver, Andrew and Gabriel Tenorio. “Want to defeat ISIS in Iraq? More electricity would help.” The
Washington Post (2014).
• Also appears in: Lynch, Marc. “Iraq Between Maliki and the Islamic State.” POMEPS Briefing 24
(2014): 19-21.
• Shaver, Andrew. “The Counterinsurgency Debate.” The National Interest (2014).
• Brown, Gerald and Andrew Shaver. “America’s Disappearing War Data.” The National Interest (2013).
• Shaver, Andrew. “Buying from the Afghans – Factoring patterns of U.S. military spending in Afghanistan
into plans for withdrawal.” Small Wars Journal (2011).
• Shaver, Andrew. “Time to Rethink our Thinking about Supporting Libya’s Rebels.” Small Wars Journal
(2011).
Work In Progress
• Shaver, Andrew, and Alex Bollfrass. “In the Heat of the Moment: Affective Motivations for Violence in
Insurgent Warfare.”
• Shaver, Andrew, and Jacob Shapiro. “The Effect of Civilian Casualties on Wartime Informing: New
Evidence from Iraq.”
• Condra, Luke, Joseph Felter, Radha Iyengar, Jacob Shapiro, and Andrew Shaver. “The Effect of Civilian
Casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq.” NBER Working Paper 16152.
• Shaver, Andrew and Gabriel Tenorio. “Public Goods Provision and Information Sharing During Insurgency.”
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• Carter, David, Andrew Shaver, and Austin Wright. “Places to Hide: Terrain, Ethnicity, and Political
Violence.”
• Klor, Esteban, Jacob Shapiro, and Andrew Shaver. “Exposure to Wartime Violence and Public Expectations: Evidence from the Iraq War”
• Shaver, Andrew and Yang-Yang Zhou. “Guilt by Association: Questioning Refugee Camps as Sites of
Conflict Diffusion.”
• Shaver, Andrew. “Do Working Men Rebel? New Evidence from Iraq.”
• Shaver, Andrew. “Terrain and Civil War Incidence: A Sub-National Analysis.”
• Project on corruption in Afghanistan with Joshua Blumenstock and Jacob Shapiro.
Invited Presentations
• Shaver, Andrew, and Jacob Shapiro. “The Effect of Civilian Casualties on Wartime Informing: New
Evidence from Iraq.”
• Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA 2015.
• Shaver, Andrew, and Alex Bollfrass. “In the Heat of the Moment: Affective Motivations for Violence in
Insurgent Warfare.”
• Yale University Program on Order, Conflict and Violence Speaker Series. New Haven, CT 2015.
• Shaver, Andrew. “Do Working Men Rebel? New Evidence from Iraq.”
• Lehigh University Samuel L Efron Lecture Series. Bethlehem, PA 2014.
Conference Presentations
• Shaver, Andrew, and Alex Bollfrass. “Turning Up the Heat: The Microfoundations of Temperature and
Sub-State Violence.”
• APSA 2014 Annual Meeting and Exhibition. Washington, D.C. 2014.
• Princeton-Stanford Empirical Studies of Conflict 2014 Annual Research Conference. San Diego,
CA 2014.
• Princeton International Relations Seminar. Princeton, NJ 2014.
• ISA ISSS-ISAC Joint Annual Conference. Washington, D.C. 2013.
• Shaver, Andrew. “Do Working Men Rebel? New Evidence from Iraq.”
• MPSA Annual Convention. Chicago, IL 2015.
• Lehigh University Samuel L Efron Lecture Series. Bethlehem, PA 2014.
• Shaver, Andrew and Gabriel Tenorio. “Electricity Provision and Insurgent Violence in Iraq.”
• Princeton International Relations Seminar. Princeton, NJ 2014.
• ISA 55th Annual Convention. Toronto, Canada 2014.
• Wright, Austin, and Andrew Shaver. “The Sites of Conflict: An Empirical Investigation of Rebel and
Government Strategy.”
• MPSA Annual Convention. Chicago, IL 2014.
• Carter, David, Andrew Shaver, and Austin Wright. “Places to Hide: Terrain, Ethnicity, and Political
Violence.”
• ISA 55th Annual Convention. Toronto, Canada 2014.
• Shaver, Andrew, Yang-Yang Zhou, and Lamis Abdelaaty. “Guilt by Association: Questioning Refugee
Camps as Sites of Conflict Diffusion.”
• ISA 55th Annual Convention. Toronto, Canada 2014.
• Princeton Graduate Student Research Poster Session. Princeton, NJ 2014.
Teaching
Experience
Peer
Reviewer
POL240/WWS312 – “International Relations” (w/ Andrew Moravcsik)
Preceptor, Department of Politics/Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
Spring 2015
WWS635C – “Intermediate Calculus” (math camp for Master’s and Ph.D. students)
Instructor, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
Summer 2014
• Journal of Conflict Resolution
• Quarterly Journal of Political Science
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Media
Appearances
Academic
Affiliations
Awards
• Mohammed, Riyadh. “The merger of ISIS and al-Qaeda could cripple the civilized world.” The Fiscal
Times (2014). (Also carried by Yahoo Finance, The Huffington Post, and CNBC )
• Stewart, Megan A. “What’s so new about the Islamic State’s governance?” The Washington Post (2014).
Center for International Security Studies, Princeton University
Empirical Studies of Conflict Program, Princeton University, Stanford University
PIIRS Research Community on Global Systemic Risk
International Relations Discussion Series, Princeton University, Founder, Director
Journal of Public and International Affairs, Editor-in-Chief; formerly Associate Editor
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2012-16: Princeton University Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences
2015: Princeton University PIIRS Research Community on Global Systemic Risk research grant
2014-15: Princeton University Bradley Research Program Fellowship
2014-15, 2011-12: Princeton University Center for International Security Studies Fellowship
2011-12: Princeton University John Parker Compton Fellowship in International Relations
2010-12: Princeton University Graduate Fellowship
2010-11: Harvard University John Dunlop Fellowship in Business and Government (declined)
2010-11: Yale University Fellowship (declined)
2010: U.S. Secretary of Defense Civilian Service Medal for the Global War on Terror
2008: U.S. Intelligence Community Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholarship (declined)
2005-06: National Security Education Program David L. Boren Scholarship
2005: Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress monetary merit award
2003: U.S. State Department “Extra Mile Award"
2001-07: Westminster College Academic, Ross Beason Memorial, and Dr. Burton C. J. Wheatlake
Endowed Scholarships
Professional U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee (on behalf of Sen. Lee)
01 - 12/12
Experience
Foreign Affairs Fellow, Washington, D.C.
• Supported the senator’s work on SFRC by drafting legislation for Committee consideration; briefing
the senator on various matters of U.S. foreign policy and national security; and preparing questions
for the Secretaries or State and Defense during testimony before the Committee.
Jon Huntsman for U.S. President Campaign
08/11 - 01/12
Foreign Policy Adviser, Washington, D.C.
• Advised the candidate on Middle East, Afghanistan, and defense matters; crafted his publicized position toward the Arab Spring, Egypt, and Syria; and was primary author of the candidate’s publicized
plan for future U.S. engagement in Afghanistan.
Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense
02/08 - 07/10
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C.
• Analyzed and developed policy options for the Department’s conduct of economic stabilization and
development initiatives in foreign theaters.
Task Force for Business and Stability Operations
Economic Stabilization Officer, Baghdad, Iraq
• Facilitated and helped formulate the strategy for the deployment of major multinational corporations
within Iraq.
Languages
Arabic
• Egyptian Colloquial - “Superior” (ACTFL certified)
• Modern Standard - “High Advanced” (International Language Institute certified)
• Iraqi Colloquial - Advanced
Castilian Spanish - High Advanced
Italian - Intermediate
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