Jacob Shapiro is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He co-founded the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project, a multi-university consortium that studies politically motivated violence in countries around the world. Shapiro has published widely on conflict, economic development, and security. He is author of The Terrorist’s Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations and co-author of Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict. Shapiro received the 2016 Karl Deutsch Award from the International Studies Association, given to a scholar within 10 years of earning a Ph.D. who has made the most significant contribution to the study of international relations.
