#  Laia Balcells 

Gallagher Family Professor of Government, Georgetown University

 

 

 



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 email <laia.balcells@georgetown.edu> 

 



 

**Research interests:** nationalism and ethnic conflict, transitional justice, legacies of conflict and authoritarianism, polarization, civil wars, terrorism, Western Europe, Latin America.



 

 

 





 

 

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