Professor David Siroky

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Email
david.siroky@essex.ac.uk -
Location
Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Thursdays 16:10-17:10
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Introduction to Politics (GV100)
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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
Academic support hours:
Thursdays 16:10-17:10