Michael Harsch
Affiliate Faculty Member, Boston University Global Development Policy Center
Michael Harsch is an Affiliate Faculty Member of the Global Development Policy Center and a Visiting Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University’s Pardee School and a Fellow at the NYU Center on International Cooperation (CIC). His research examines global and local institutions’ role in promoting security, effective government, and economic development, with a focus on fragile and conflict-affected states. He is the author of The Power of Dependence: NATO-UN Cooperation in Crisis Management (Oxford University Press, 2015). He is currently completing his second book, which investigates the enduring success of “islands of stability” in war-torn countries. In addition, he co-leads a grant-funded project analyzing donor strategies for managing risks in conflict and disaster-prone areas, and their implications for aid effectiveness.
Prior to joining Pardee, Harsch was an Assistant Professor of Practice at New York University in Abu Dhabi. He has been a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Stanford University, the World Bank’s Global Center on Conflict, Security and Development in Nairobi and the WZB’s Institutions and Political Inequality research unit in Berlin. Additional information can be found on his personal website.
