Truman School of Government and Public Affairs

Bryce W. Reeder is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Truman School of Government and Public Affairs.  He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Illinois, and a B.A. from Boise State University.  His research centers on political violence, conflict management, and the consequences of wars for civilian populations.

Undergraduate Courses

• Introduction to International Relations
• The Politics of International Law
• Peacekeeping and Intervention
• Genocide, Terrorism, and Civil War
• Environmental Conflict and Security

Graduate Courses

• International Relations (PhD Seminar)
• Conflict Management and Peacekeeping (PhD Seminar)
• Theories of Civil War (PhD Seminar)
• From Paper to Publication (PhD Seminar)
• Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Intervention (MA Class)
• Understanding Civil War (MA Class)

Journal Articles

• "Rebel Resource Efficiency and the Escalation of Civil Conflict" Journal of Global Security Studies, 2023. (with Dongjin Kwak, John Smith, and Michael Wales)
• "All Peacekeeping is Local: Measuring Subnational Variation in Peacekeeping Effectiveness" International Studies Quarterly, 2022. (with Edward Goldring and Michael Hendricks)
• "Environmental Justice Organizations and the Diffusion of Conflicts over Mining in Latin America" World Development, 2022. (with Moises Arce and Adrian Siefkas)
• "Transforming Zones of Exclusion to Zones of Inclusion? Local-Level UN Peacekeeping Deployments and Educational Attainment" International Studies Quarterly, 2021. (with Marc Polizzi)
• “Willingness to Protest over Resource Extraction in Latin America” Extractive Industries and Society, 2020. (with  Moises Arce and Marc Polizzi)
• "US Strikes in Somalia and Targeted Civilian Killings by Al-Shabaab: An Empirical Investigation" Foreign Policy Analysis, 2019. (with John Smith) 
• "The Political Geography of Rebellion: Using Event Data to Identify Insurgent Territory, Preferences, and Relocation Patterns" International Studies Quarterly, 2018.
• "The Spatial Concentration of Peacekeeping Personnel and Public Health During Intrastate Conflicts" International Peacekeeping, 2018. 
• "Fighting Your Friends? A study of intra-party violence in sub-Saharan Africa" Democratization, 2018. (with Merete Bech Seeberg)
• “Rebel Behavior in the Context of Interstate Competition: Exploring Day-to-
  Day Patterns of Political Violence in Africa” International Interactions, 2015.
• "Hot Spot Peacekeeping" International Studies Review, 2015. (with Matthew Powers and Ashly Adam Townsen)
• "Civil War and the Severity of Militarized Interstate Disputes" Research and Politics, 2014.
• "Political Violence, Interstate Rivalry, and the Diffusion of Public Health Crises" Social Science Quarterly, 2014. (with Matthew Reeder)
• "Where Do Peacekeepers Go When They Go? Explaining the Spatial Heterogeneity of Peacekeeping Deployments" Journal of International Peacekeeping, 2014. (with Ashly Adam Townsen)

Other Publications

• "International Conflict Data Collection: Where have we been and where are we going?" Curated collection for Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2017.
• "Dangerous Times? The International Politics of Great Power Peace (book review)" Journal of Slavic Military Studies 24 (4): 709-711, 2011.

Original Datasets

• The Rebel Groups in Geographic Space Dataset 
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  • codebook
• Local Estimates of United Nations Peacekeeping Effectiveness 
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  • codebook