Kelly Greenhill

Kelly M. Greenhill (* 1970 ) is an American political scientist at Tufts University in Boston and is a book author. She conducts research in the fields of international security, military violence, civil wars, interventions and uprisings, and international migration. She became known in Europe for the publication of her book Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy , which deals with the topic of controlled refugee flows and their effects.

Life

Kelly M. Greenhill studied political economy and Scandinavian studies at the University of California in Berkeley and graduated there with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in order to obtain a Certificate of Special Studies (CSS), similar to the part-time German MBA program, Graduate in International Management from Harvard University . Greenhill then began studying political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), specializing in the sub-disciplines of international politics, security policy and political economy . She finished her political studies with a Master of Science (SM) and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D).

Greenhill is currently a tenured associate professor of Political Science and International Relations at Tufts University in Boston. She is also a Research Fellow of the International Security Program (ISP) of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) affiliated with the John F. Kennedy School of Government .

Outside of her academic work, Greenhill has worked as a consultant for a wide variety of national and international organizations. These include the Ford Foundation , the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the World Bank and the US Department of Defense . As an economic politician, she supported the then US Senator and former United States Secretary of State John Kerry .

Publications

Greenhill is the author of the book Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy , which was named Best Book of 2011 by the International Studies Association (ISA). In addition, she published, as co-author and co-editor, in collaboration with Peter Andreas, Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts: The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict and The Use of Force: Military Power and International Politics (R & L) in cooperation with Robert J. Art.

In addition, there are other publications in the scientific journals “International Security”, “Security Studies”, “Civil Wars” and “International Migration” as well as publications outside the scientific field in the New York Times , The Los Angeles Times , International Herald Tribune , Foreign Affairs and for the British Broadcasting Company (BBC).

Greenhill is currently working on a monograph, a transnational study of the conditions under which controversial sources of political information such as rumors , conspiracy theories and myths have a significant influence on the development and implementation of foreign and defense policies of states.

Publications

In the English original:

• Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy. Cornell University Press, March 2010, ISBN 978-0801448713 .
• Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts: The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict. Cornell University Press, May 2010, ISBN 978-0801476181 .
• The Use of Force: Military Power and International Politics. Rowman & Littlefield, July 2015, ISBN 978-1442233058 .

In German translation:

• Mass migration as a weapon. Kopp Verlag, January 2016, ISBN 978-3864452710 .

Web links

• Mass migration as a weapon: “Turkey has great leverage in its hand” , Cicero, November 17, 2015. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
• Europe Must Deal With the Breeding of Terrorism Within Its Borders , The New York Times, November 2015. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
• Nigeria's Countless Casualties , Foreign Affairs, February 2015. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
• Weapons of mass migration: forced displacement, coercion and foreign policy , University of Oxford Podcasts, May 2014. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
• Counting The Human Cost in Iraq , BBC News, May 2011. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
• Using Refugees as Weapon , The New York Times, April 2011. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
• Don't Dump Down the Army , The New York Times, February 2006. Retrieved November 18, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ International Security Program , on the Belfer Center website. Retrieved November 17, 2015
2. ↑ Kelly M. Greenhill ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on the Tufts University website. Retrieved November 15, 2015. 
3. ↑ Kelly M. Greenhill ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Curriculum Vitae on the Tufts University website. Retrieved November 15, 2015. 
4. ↑ Kelly M. Greenhill , on the Belfer Center website, Retrieved November 17, 2015.
5. ↑ Migration & Blackmail. The new super weapon. FAZ, March 2011. Retrieved November 8, 2015.