Enemies Within
The Global Politics of Fifth Columns
Harris Mylonas and Scott Radnitz
Author Information
Harris Mylonas is associate professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University and editor-in-chief of Nationalities Papers.
Scott Radnitz is the Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.
Contributors:
Samer Anabtawi is a lecturer in comparative politics at University College London (UCL). His primary research focuses on LGBTQ movements and attitudes toward marginalized groups in the Middle East and North Africa. Aside from his PhD dissertation on the rise of queer activism in Lebanon, Tunisia, and Palestine, he is currently working on other research projects on judicial autonomy under authoritarianism.
Efe Murat Balikcioglu is a lecturer in Islamic History at Wellesley College's Department of Religion. He holds a B.A. degree in Philosophy from Princeton University, and A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. His research focuses on the intersections of philosophy and theology in the early modern Ottoman Empire, as well as the rise of political Islam in modern Turkey.
András Bozoki is a Professor of Political Science at the Central European University and at the CEU Democracy Institute. He has received fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, the European University Institute (EUI) and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. His books include The Roundtable Talks of 1989 (2002), Political Pluralism in Hungary (2003), Anarchism in Hungary (2006), and Post-Communist Transition (2016). He has published numerous book chapters and articles in journals including Democratization, Comparative Sociology, East European Politics among others. He has received the István Bibó Award.
H. Zeynep Bulutgil is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at University College London. Her research focuses on political violence, state formation, religion and politics, and inequality and ethnic mobilization. Her first book, The Roots of Ethnic Cleansing in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2016; 2018), studies the causes of ethnic cleansing and has received the 2017 Best Book Award in the European Politics and Society Section of APSA. Her second book, The Origins of Secular Institutions: Ideas, Timing, and Organization (forthcoming at Oxford University Press), combines ideational and organizational mechanisms to explain how institutional secularization occurs.
Volha Charnysh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She studies political attitudes and behavior in culturally diverse societies and is particularly interested in the political and economic legacies of mass displacement, genocide, and plunder in Central and Eastern Europe. Her work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and European Journal of International Relations, and won awards from the American Political Science Association and Council for European Studies. She received her PhD in Government from Harvard University in May 2017.
Kathryn Ciancia is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her first book, On Civilization's Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World (Oxford University Press, 2020), traces how Poles attempted to simultaneously "civilize" and Polonize the multiethnic eastern province of Volhynia. Articles drawn from this book have also appeared in the Journal of Modern History and Slavic Review. She is working on a new book that explores how consulates regulated Polish citizenship across the world between the creation of the Polish state in 1918 and the early years of the Cold War.
Robert Crews is Professor of History at Stanford University. He is the author of Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015) and For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia (Harvard University Press, 2006) and co-editor of Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands (Harvard University Press, 2012) and The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan (Harvard University Press, 2008).
Sam Erkiletian is a PhD candidate at the Department of Political Science at University College London. His research focuses on how the military socialization processes of armed groups affect the behavior and postwar identity of former combatants. He holds an MSc in Security Studies from University College London and a BA in History and Ancient Studies from Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.
Kristin E. Fabbe is the Jakurski Family Associate Professor and a Hodgson Faculty Fellow at Harvard Business School in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit. She is also faculty affiliate at the Middle East Initiative at the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Belfer Center, at the Harvard Center for Middle East Studies, and the Harvard Center for European Studies. Her first book, Disciples of the State? Religion and Statebuilding in the Former Ottoman World, was published with Cambridge University Press in 2019. She received her PhD in Political Science from M.I.T.
Lillian Frost is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech. She specializes in citizenship, forced migration, and gender issues, particularly in the Arab World. She has held research fellow positions with the European University Institute's Max Weber Programme, United States Institute of Peace, Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs' Middle East Initiative, American Center of Research in Jordan, and Fulbright Program in Jordan. She received her Ph.D. in political science, focusing on comparative politics and research methods, from the George Washington University.
Erin Jenne is a Professor at the International Relations Department at Central European University, She has received numerous grants and fellowships, including a MacArthur fellowship, Carnegie Corporation scholarship, a Senior Fernand Braudel fellowship at European University Institute (EUI), and a Minerva Grant from the US Office of Naval Research. Her first book, Ethnic Bargaining (Cornell University Press, 2007) is the winner of Mershon Center's Edgar S. Furniss Book Award. Her work has appeared in International Affairs, International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, Regional and Federal Studies, Journal of Peace Research, Civil Wars, International Studies Review, Research and Politics and Ethnopolitics.
Kendrick Kuo is an assistant professor at the U.S. Naval War College. His research focuses on military effectiveness, innovation, and strategy, as well as nationalism and nation-building. He holds a PhD in political science from the George Washington University, an MA in International Affairs and International Economics from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a BA in International Affairs and Religion from the George Washington University.
Péter Visnovitz is a doctoral candidate at Central European University's PhD Program in Political Science. His research focuses on populist legitimacy in opposition and power, using content analysis and discourse analysis to track how populist actors construct group identities and security threats. As a research assistant he participated in a number of research projects at Yale, Princeton, and the Hungarian Center for Social Sciences. Peter also has substantial work experience with the media, having worked as a journalist for over eight years.
