People

Professor David Siroky

Professor
Department of Government
Professor David Siroky

Teaching and supervision

Current teaching responsibilities

  • Introduction to Politics (GV100)

  • War and Conflict in the Post-Soviet World (GV529)

Publications

Journal articles (42)

Hale, C. and Siroky, D., (2023). Irredentism and Institutions. British Journal of Political Science. 53 (2), 1-18

Siroky, DS., Souleimanov, EA., Ratelle, J-F. and Popovic, M., (2022). Purifying the Religion: An Analysis of Haram Targeting among Salafi Jihadi Groups. Comparative Politics. 54 (3), 525-546

Souleimanov, EA., Siroky, DS. and Krause, P., (2022). Kin Killing: Why Governments Target Family Members in Insurgency, and When It Works. Security Studies. 31 (2), 183-217

Aslan Souleimanov, E., Siroky, D. and Colombo, R., (2022). Blood Revenge in Civil War: Proof of Concept. Security Studies. 31 (4), 101-136

Siroky, DS., Mueller, S., Fazi, A. and Hechter, M., (2021). Containing Nationalism: Culture, Economics and Indirect Rule in Corsica. Comparative Political Studies. 54 (6), 1023-1057

Siroky, DS., Popovic, M. and Mirilovic, N., (2021). Unilateral secession, international recognition, and great power contestation. Journal of Peace Research. 58 (5), 1049-1067

Mirilovic, N. and Siroky, DS., (2021). International recognition, religion, and the status of Western Sahara. Acta Politica. 56 (3), 548-566

Siroky, D., Jenne, E. and Popovic, M., (2021). Great Power Rivalry and Proxy Wars. International Studies Review. FORUM: CONFLICT DELEGATION IN CIVIL WARS (23), 2048-2078

Aprasidze, D. and Siroky, DS., (2020). Technocratic Populism in Hybrid Regimes: Georgia on My Mind and in My Pocket. Politics and Governance. 8 (4), 580-589

Siroky, D., Warner, CM., Filip-Crawford, G., Berlin, A. and Neuberg, SL., (2020). Grievances and rebellion: Comparing relative deprivation and horizontal inequality. Conflict Management and Peace Science. 37 (6), 694-715

Bustikova, L., Siroky, DS., Alashri, S. and Alzahrani, S., (2020). Predicting Partisan Responsiveness: A Probabilistic Text Mining Time-Series Approach. Political Analysis. 28 (1), 47-64

Souleimanov, EA., Abbasov, N. and Siroky, DS., (2019). Correction to: Frankenstein in Grozny: vertical and horizontal cracks in the foundation of Kadyrov’s rule. Asia Europe Journal. 17 (1), 105-105

Souleimanov, EA., Abbasov, N. and Siroky, DS., (2019). Frankenstein in Grozny: vertical and horizontal cracks in the foundation of Kadyrov’s rule. Asia Europe Journal. 17 (1), 87-103

Gvalia, G., Lebanidze, B. and Siroky, DS., (2019). Neoclassical realism and small states: systemic constraints and domestic filters in Georgia’s foreign policy. East European Politics. 35 (1), 21-51

Muchlinski, DA., Siroky, D., He, J. and Kocher, MA., (2019). Seeing the Forest through the Trees. Political Analysis. 27 (1), 111-113

Abbasov, N. and Siroky, D., (2018). Joining the club: explaining alliance preferences in the South Caucasus. Caucasus Survey. 6 (3), 252-267

Guasti, P., Siroky, DS. and Stockemer, D., (2017). Judgement without justice: on the efficacy of the European human rights regime. Democratization. 24 (2), 226-243

Siroky, DS. and Hale, CW., (2017). Inside Irredentism: A Global Empirical Analysis. American Journal of Political Science. 61 (1), 117-128

Siroky, DS., Mueller, S. and Hechter, M., (2017). Cultural legacies and political preferences: the failure of separatism in the Swiss Jura. European Political Science Review. 9 (2), 303-327

Mirilovic, N. and Siroky, DS., (2017). International Recognition and Religion: A Quantitative Analysis of Kosovo’s Contested Status. International Interactions. 43 (4), 668-687

Siroky, DS., Simmons, AJ. and Gvalia, G., (2017). Vodka or Bourbon? Foreign Policy Preferences Toward Russia and the United States in Georgia. FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS. 13 (2), 500-518

Mueller, S., Siroky, DS. and Hechter, M., (2016). Conclusion: Center-Periphery Bargaining in the Age of Democracy. Swiss Political Science Review. 22 (4), 625-630

Dzutsati, V., Siroky, D. and Dzutsev, K., (2016). The Political Economy of Support for Sharia: Evidence from the Russian North Caucasus. Politics and Religion. 9 (4), 695-719

Siroky, D. and Hechter, M., (2016). Ethnicity, class, and civil war: the role of hierarchy, segmentation, and cross-cutting cleavages. Civil Wars. 18 (1), 91-107

Siroky, DS. and Mahmudlu, C., (2016). E Pluribus Unum?. Problems of Post-Communism. 63 (2), 94-107

Souleimanov, EA. and Siroky, DS., (2016). Random or Retributive?. World Politics. 68 (4), 677-712

Siroky, D., (2016). The sources of secessionist war: the interaction of local control and foreign forces in post-Soviet Georgia. Caucasus Survey. 4 (1), 63-91

Muchlinski, D., Siroky, D., He, J. and Kocher, M., (2016). Comparing Random Forest with Logistic Regression for Predicting Class-Imbalanced Civil War Onset Data. Political Analysis. 24 (1), 87-103

Siroky, DS., Mueller, S. and Hechter, M., (2016). Center-Periphery Bargaining in the Age of Democracy. Swiss Political Science Review. 22 (4), 439-453

Mirilovic, N. and Siroky, DS., (2015). Two States in the Holy Land?: International Recognition and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Politics and Religion. 8 (2), 263-285

Siroky, D. and Dzutsati, V., (2015). The Empire Strikes Back: Ethnicity, Terrain, and Indiscriminate Violence in Counterinsurgencies*. Social Science Quarterly. 96 (3), 807-829

Siroky, DS. and Cuffe, J., (2015). Lost Autonomy, Nationalism and Separatism. Comparative Political Studies. 48 (1), 3-34

Salehyan, I., Siroky, D. and Wood, RM., (2014). External Rebel Sponsorship and Civilian Abuse: A Principal-Agent Analysis of Wartime Atrocities. International Organization. 68 (3), 633-661

Siroky, DS. and Sigwart, H-J., (2014). Principle and Prudence: Rousseau on Private Property and Inequality. Polity. 46 (3), 381-406

Siroky, DS., Dzutsev, V. and Hechter, M., (2013). The differential demand for indirect rule: evidence from the North Caucasus. Post-Soviet Affairs. 29 (3), 268-286

Gvalia, G., Siroky, D., Lebanidze, B. and Iashvili, Z., (2013). Thinking Outside the Bloc: Explaining the Foreign Policies of Small States. Security Studies. 22 (1), 98-131

Guss, J. and Siroky, DS., (2012). Living with Heterogeneity. Comparative Sociology. 11 (3), 304-324

Siroky, DS., (2012). Each Man For Himself? Rival Theories of Alliance Economics in The Early State System. Defence and Peace Economics. 23 (4), 321-330

Siroky, DS. and Dzutsev, V., (2012). Rational or reckless? Georgia's zugzwang in the Caucasus. Nationalities Papers. 40 (3), 303-314

Gortzak, Y. and Siroky, D., (2012). Prometheus Bound? Indigenous Forces and Third-party State-building. Ethnopolitics. 11 (1), 101-104

Siroky, DS. and Aprasidze, D., (2011). Guns, roses and democratization: Huntington's secret admirer in the Caucasus. Democratization. 18 (6), 1227-1245

Siroky, DS., (2009). Navigating Random Forests and related advances in algorithmic modeling. Statistics Surveys. 3 (none), 147-163

Books (1)

Siroky, DS., Dzutsati, V. and Bustikova, L., (2022). Defection Denied. Cambridge University Press. 9781009016452

Book chapters (7)

Jenne, E. and Siroky, D., (2023). The Return of Great Power Proxy Wars?. In: Routledge Handbook of Proxy Wars. Editors: Assaf, M., Wyss, M. and Rauta, V.,

Sambanis, N. and Siroky, D., (2023). The Lifecycle of Secession: Interactions, Processes and Predictions. In: The Routledge Handbook of Self-Determination and Secession. Editors: Griffiths, RD., Pavković, A. and Radan, P., . Routledge. 146- 163. 9780367478117

Siroky, D. and Hechter, M., (2019). Ethnicity, class, and civil war: The role of hierarchy, segmentation, and cross-cutting cleavages. In: Rational Choice Sociology: Essays on Theory, Collective Action and Social Order. 113- 129. 9781789903249

Muchlinski, D. and Siroky, D., (2016). Identity politics on the world stage. In: Encounters with World Affairs: An Introduction to International Relations. 295- 310. 9781472411150

(2013). Secessionism and Separatism in Europe and Asia. In: Secessionism and Separatism in Europe and Asia: To Have a State of One's Own. Routledge. 37- 52. 9780203094266

Siroky, DS., (2013). Explaining secession. In: The Ashgate Research Companion to Secession. 45- 80. 9780754677024

Siroky, DS., (2011). Explaining secession. In: The Ashgate Research Companion to Secession. 45- 79. 9780754677024

Contact

david.siroky@essex.ac.uk

Location:

Colchester Campus

Academic support hours:

Thursdays 16:10-17:10

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