Collegiate Affiliation

Tanisha Fazal is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Her scholarship focuses on sovereignty, international law, armed conflict, and medical care in conflict zones. Fazal’s current research analyzes the global politics of climate change. 

She is the author of three books: State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation (Princeton University Press, 2007), which won the Best Book Award of the American Political Science Association’s Conflict Processes Section; Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict (Cornell University Press), which won the Best Book Award of the International Studies Association's International Law Section and the American Political Science Association's International Collaboration Section; and, most recently, Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War (Oxford University Press, 2024). Her work has also appeared in journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, Daedalus, Foreign Affairs, International Organization, International Security, International Studies Review, International Studies Quarterly, and Security Studies.

A frequent commentator on international relations and foreign affairs, she has been a fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. In 2002 she was awarded the Helen Dwight Reid Award of the American Political Science Association. From 2021-2023, she was an Andrew Carnegie Fellow.

Educational Background & Specialties
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Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: Political Science, Stanford University, 2001
  • A.B.: Social Studies, Harvard University, 1994

Specialties

  • International security
  • Armed conflict
  • Laws of war
  • Sovereignty
  • Military medicine