İpek Ece Şener studies international relations, conflict and security, great power politics, and quantitative political methodology. Her research examines how the microdynamics of civil war are connected to the international system of which they are a part. Her projects explore the relationship between illegal militant organizations and legal activist organizations within dissident movements, investigating how activist actions influence support for militancy, and how militant propaganda can radicalize activists. Another set of my projects analyzes how international actors, institutions, and great power competition can influence the likelihood and microdynamics of civil war. She uses experimental, quasi-experimental, and observational designs, as well as text-as-data methods in my projects. İpek earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis.
Contact
isener@fas.harvard.edu
1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Subfields
International Relations
Academic Interests
Security Studies
Research Methods
Experiments | Quantitative Methods
Geographic Regions of Study
Middle East and North Africa