Menu
Search
- News
- Economy
- Central Banks
- Investing
- Research
- Roundups
- Digital Currency
- Insights
- Technical Analysis
- Technology
- Business
- Law
- Health
- Nature
- Fintech
- Science
- Topic
- Opinions
- ©Econometrics LLC . All Rights Reserved.
Monica Duffy Toft
Director of the Center for Strategic Studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Monica Duffy Toft is the Director of the Center for Strategic Studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a professor of International Politics.
Before joining The Fletcher School, Professor Monica Duffy Toft taught at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government and Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. While at Harvard, she directed the Initiative on Religion in International Affairs and was the assistant director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies. She was educated at the University of Chicago (MA and PhD in political science) and at the University of California, Santa Barbara (BA in political science and Slavic languages and literature, summa cum laude). Prior to this, she spent four years in the United States Army as a Russian linguist. Monica’s areas of research include international security, ethnic and religious violence, civil wars and demography. Her most recent books include: Securing the Peace (Princeton, 2011); Political Demography (Oxford, 2012); and God’s Century (Norton, 2012). In addition she has published numerous scholarly articles and editorials on civil wars, territory and nationalism, demography, and religion in global politics.
Toft is a research associate of the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford and at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She is a supernumerary fellow at Brasenose College, University of Oxford, a Global Scholar of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Minorities at Risk Advisory Board and the Political Instability Task Force. In 2008 the Carnegie Foundation of New York named her a Carnegie Scholar for her research on religion and violence, in 2012 she was named a Fulbright scholar, and most recently served as the World Politics Fellow at Princeton University.
Jan 14, 2025 05:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Donald Trumps nominee for secretary of state, will testify before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee as part of his confirmation process on Jan. 15, 2025. Rubios nomination is...
Israelis and Palestinians warring over a homeland is far from unique
Dec 13, 2023 13:46 pm UTC|
The ongoing horrors unfolding in Israel and Gaza have deep-rooted origins that stem from a complex and contested question: Who has rights to the same territory? I am a scholar of international affairs, as well as...
Jan 26, 2023 12:04 pm UTC| Politics
President Joe Biden announced on Jan. 25, 2023, that the U.S. would send 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyys repeated requests for more military tanks to help wage its war...
Oct 21, 2022 06:13 am UTC| Insights & Views
The United States and European countries continue to pledge their support to Ukraine as Russias invasion drags on into its ninth month and have backed their alliance with recurrent deliveries of advanced weaponry and...
America now solves problems with troops, not diplomats
Oct 04, 2019 14:42 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Is America a bully? As a scholar, under the auspices of the Military Intervention Project, I have been studying every episode of U.S. military intervention from 1776 to 2017. Historically, the U.S. advanced from a...
Identicide: How demographic shifts can rip a country apart
Apr 27, 2019 06:20 am UTC| Insights & Views
What happens to a country when its core national identity its preferred image of itself in terms of race or religion doesnt match its demographic reality? Say a Sunni-dominated Arab country is actually a majority Shia...
ECB Warns Euro Zone Inflation Will Keep Rising Despite Strait of Hormuz Reopening
Trump Signals Tough Stance on Iran Uranium Stockpile as Nuclear Talks Show Limited Progress
Trump to Swear In Kevin Warsh as New Federal Reserve Chair Amid Inflation Concerns
Dollar Eases as US-Iran Peace Deal Report Impacts Forex and Bond Markets
Oil Prices Rebound as U.S.-Iran Talks Continue to Influence Global Crude Market
Wang Yi to Lead UN Security Council Meeting and Visit Canada Amid Improving China-Canada Relations
Taiwan Says No Notice of U.S. Arms Sales Pause Amid Iran Conflict Concerns
House Republicans Delay Vote on Iran War Powers Resolution Amid Growing Congressional Debate
U.S. Sanctions Tanzanian Police Official Over Human Rights Violations
Israel Faces Global Backlash Over Gaza Flotilla Activists’ Treatment
Trump Administration Releases New UFO Files and Apollo Mission Records
China vs. NASA: The New Moon Race and What's at Stake by 2030
NASA's Artemis II Mission: First Crewed Lunar Journey Since Apollo
NASA's Artemis II Crew Arrives in Florida for Historic Moon Mission
PDG Explores $1 Billion Sale of China Data Center Assets
Lam Research Expands AI-Powered Semiconductor Tools and Arizona Operations
Texas Sues Meta Over WhatsApp Encryption Claims
Pentagon Expands AI Model Testing as It Seeks Alternatives to Anthropic’s Claude
SoftBank Shares Surge as OpenAI IPO Buzz and SB Energy Filing Boost AI Optimism
- Market Data
