Ethan Kapstein

Biography

Ethan B. Kapstein is Associate Director of the Empirical Studies of Conflict Program (esoc.princeton.edu). He also holds an endowed chair at Arizona State University, where he is affiliated with the McCain Institute for International Leadership. Kapstein’s research and teaching focus on the political economy of development, especially in conflict-affected countries. At Princeton he has supervised MPA policy workshops on Stabilization Policy for the US Army, on the Civilian Surge to Afghanistan for SIGAR, and on the Sustainability of Millennium Challenge Corporation projects. His most recent book, Seeds of Stability: Land Reform and US Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press 2017) traces American efforts to address peasant-based insurgencies in the developing world. His previous book (with Josh Busby), AIDS Drugs for All: Social Movements and Market Transformations (Cambridge University Press 2013), won the Don K. Price Award for best book from the American Political Science Association’s section on Science, Technology and Environmental Studies. Kapstein is a retired US naval officer and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.