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Aila Matanock is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on international and domestic influences on fragile states, including post-conflict elections, statebuilding, and security institution design. She holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and an A.B. from Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude. Her work bridges international relations and comparative politics, with field experiments in Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Mexico, and Myanmar.
Key research projects include:
- Electing Peace: Demonstrates how rebel participation in elections correlates with enduring peace, challenging assumptions about post-conflict instability. Won the 2018 Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize.
- Inviting Intervention: Examines 'invited interventions' where states delegate security functions to external actors, proposing new statebuilding frameworks.
- Policing Institutions: Explores how police design impacts security outcomes and civilian trust, with collaborative field experiments.
Her work has been supported by NSF, Minerva Research Initiative, and the Center for Global Development. She advises the VIO Lab, studying violence and intervention mechanisms.
Major awards include the 2013 APSA Helen Dwight Reid Award for her Stanford dissertation and a runner-up 2018 Conflict Research Society Prize. Teaching focuses on civil conflict, international intervention, and research methods.
