ways: by repressing their subjects, or conceding to their demands. Yet, write Joan Ricart-Huguet and Richard McAlexander, there is a third option. Weak states may use a strategy of state disengagement
His primary interests are in political violence, terrorism, nonviolent resistance, imperialism, and the evolution of international borders.
Richard's book project, The Politics of Anticolonial Resistance: Violence, Nonviolence and the Erosion of Empire, studies how the British Empire responded to different forms of resistance in its colonies.
He received his PhD from Columbia University, and holds an MA from Temple University and a BS from Drexel University.
