Within international relations, my research has involved innovative approaches to studying the causes of civil conflict, with an emphasis on how environmental pressures shape patterns of political violence. My methodological interests include limited dependent variable models, econometric and causal inference methods, mixed and combined methods approaches, and event data.
Keywords: International Relations & Political Violence
Research Interests:
- International relations: political violence; environmental conflict; civil war; the geography of violence
- Methodology: computational social science; mixed distribution models; causal inference; mixed methods; event data
He studies micro-dynamics of violence, analyzes the behavior of combatants and perpetrators, and evaluates the specific mechanisms that generate conflict and other forms of political violence at the highly localized level
Using a combination of “big data” analysis and archival research, Koren’s current work analyzes the implications of factors such as local political power asymmetries or food security and climatic variations to conflict and political violence, and experiments with creating theoretically informed indicators to measure the distribution of different political and economic factors at the highly localized level.
Specialties:
- International Relations
- Political Methodology
- Comparative Politics
- Applied Economics
