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Jesse Driscoll is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, where he serves as the chair of the Global Leadership Institute. His research focuses on Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Russian-speaking world. Driscoll's notable works include 'Warlords and Coalition Politics in Post-Soviet States' published by Cambridge University Press, which explores the emergence of domestic hierarchies in environments characterized by anarchic violence in Georgia and Tajikistan. He is also a co-author of 'Ukraine’s Unnamed War: Russian Invasion 2022,' which examines the complexities of the current conflict involving Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Additionally, he authored 'Doing Global Fieldwork: A Social Scientist’s Guide to Mixed-Methods Research Far From Home,' which serves as a practical guide for researchers collecting original data in challenging environments. Driscoll's expertise lies in the intersection of politics, conflict, and governance within post-Soviet states.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).