She presented her article on “” in a session on “Police and Military Forces in Dictatorships.” The article, published in the journal Small Wars & Insurgencies last fall, focuses on how police militarization affects outcomes in counterinsurgency campaigns.
De Bruin also presented a paper from her on-going on armed group governance and legitimacy in Colombia, as well as new, co-authored work on how to conceptualize variation in state security forces.
In addition, De Bruin’s book, (2020, Cornell University Press), was the subject of an ISA “Author Meets Critics” roundtable. In this discussion, scholars of civil-military relations and civil war highlighted the book’s contributions to their fields and identified directions for future research.
In early April, De Bruin presented “Attitudes Toward Protests and State Repression: Evidence from Colombia” virtually at the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Annual Conference. Her talk was part of a session on “Attitudes Toward Corruption and Violence.”