John O''Loughlin

Biographic Data

ID205032
NAMEJohn O''Loughlin
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMEO''Loughlin
SIGNATURELOUGHLIN J O
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Colorado Boulder
ORCID0000-0002-9053-7885
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS49
TOTAL CITATIONS471
AUTHOR COUNT49
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX13

  • Food Insecurity, Local Institutions, and Changing Support for Violence during a Severe Drought in Northern Kenya, 2020–2022

    John O''Loughlin, Sarah Posner et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the American…2026

    The effects of climate change on the possible increase in conflict due to competition over scarce resources is widely debated. Prolonged droughts due to climate change are expected in the arid and semiarid lands of Africa. Like other regions in the Horn of Africa, northern Kenya was adversely affected by severe drought from 2020 to 2022. Satellite data confirm rainfall deficits reflected in vegetation, drought indicators, and soil moisture distri…

  • Measuring and Accounting for War Destruction Using Human-Reported and Satellite-Derived Conflict Data: Ukraine, 2022–2023

    Open AccessFrank D W Witmer, Corey Scher et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the American…2026

  • Support for Vladimir Putin in Russia's neighbors: Survey evidence from an endorsement experiment in six post-Soviet countries

    Open AccessJohn O''Loughlin, John Ο’loughlin et al.ARTICLEPolitical Geography2024References: 44

  • Michael D. Ward (1948–2021) and the road to space, networks and geography

    Open AccessKristian Skrede Gleditsch, John O''Loughlin et al.ARTICLEPolitical Geography2023

  • Perceptions of the past in the post-Soviet space

    Open AccessKristin M Bakke, Kit Rickard et al.ARTICLEPost-Soviet Affairs2023Cited by: 3References: 67

    Honing in on how citizens in the former Soviet Union find themselves in an information competition over their own past, this paper explores whether and why ordinary people’s perceptions of historical events and figures in their country’s past are in line with a Russian-promoted narrative that highlights World War II – known as the “Great Patriotic War” in Russia and some former Soviet states – as a glorious Soviet victory and Stalin as a great le…

  • Weather variability and conflict forecasts: Dynamic human-environment interactions in Kenya

    Open AccessAndrew M Linke, Frank D W Witmer et al.ARTICLEPolitical Geography2022Cited by: 2References: 77

  • The geopolitical orientations of ordinary Belarusians: Survey Evidence From Early 2020

    John O''Loughlin, John Ο’loughlin et al.ARTICLEPost-Soviet Affairs2022Cited by: 7References: 29

    Examining geopolitical orientations in a representative survey of Belarus in early 2020, we adopt a critical geopolitical perspective that highlights geopolitical cultures as fields of contestation and debate over a state’s identity, orientation, and enduring interests. We examine support among 1210 Belarusians to four foreign policy options for the country–neutrality as the best foreign policy, joining the European Union, staying in the Eurasian…

  • Lynn Staeheli, political geographer (1958-2020) - Introduction

    Open AccessJohn O''Loughlin, John Ο’loughlinARTICLEPolitical Geography2022References: 4

  • Who are the ‘Don’t Knows’? Missing Data in Surveys of Post-Soviet Conflict-affected Regions

    Francis Naylor, John O''Loughlin et al.ARTICLEEurope Asia Studies2020Cited by: 5References: 12

    Respondents often answer ‘don’t know’ to sensitive survey questions to avoid revealing their true opinions, especially in post-conflict societies, thus requiring difficult decisions for analysing affected survey data. Using the same five sensitive questions in ten surveys from conflict-affected societies in the former Soviet Union in the period 2005–2014, methods for coping with missing data resulting from ‘don’t know’ responses are presented. Ma…

  • Does War Change Geopolitical Attitudes? A Comparative Analysis of 2014 Surveys in Southeast Ukraine

    John O''Loughlin, John Ο’loughlin et al.ARTICLEProblems of Post-Communism2019Cited by: 6References: 25

    John O'Loughlin*a & Gerard Toalb a Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USAb School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, Arlington, VA, USA

  • The consequences of relocating in response to drought: Human mobility and conflict in contemporary Kenya

    Open AccessAndrew M Linke, Frank D W Witmer et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    As global temperatures rise, drought-induced human relocation is expected to increase. Using original national survey data from Kenya, we investigate whether people who report relocating due to drought are more likely to be victims of violence than people who do not move. We also examine whether this migrant sample supports the use of violence at higher levels than the general population, conditional on their experiences. We measure the duration …

  • More drilling, more transparency and less skipping: A reply to the commentators

    Open AccessJohn O''Loughlin, John Ο’loughlinARTICLEPolitical Geography2018References: 4

  • Dynamics of state-building after war: External-internal relations in Eurasian de facto states

    Open AccessKristin M Bakke, Andrew M Linke et al.ARTICLEPolitical Geography2018Cited by: 7References: 45

    Post-war state-building is fraught with challenges as “war-makers” pivot to become “state-makers.” Citizen assessments of public good provision and physical security provide a measure of how state-building is perceived internally. State-building may also necessitate external dependence (Russia, for example, provides significant financial and military assistance to the post-Soviet de facto states), yet new state authorities want to be seen as more…

  • Thirty-five years of political geography and Political Geography: The good, the bad and the ugly

    Open AccessJohn O''Loughlin, John Ο’loughlinARTICLEPolitical Geography2018Cited by: 13References: 55

  • The Diffusion of Democracy, 1946–1994

    John O''Loughlin, John O’loughlin et al.CHAPTERPolitics2017

    We examine the relationship between the temporal and spatial aspects of democratic diffusion in the world system since 1946. We find strong and consistent evidence of temporal clustering of democratic and autocratic trends, as well as strong spatial association (or autocorrelation) of democratization. The analysis uses an exploratory data approach in a longitudinal framework to understand global and regional trends in changes in authority structu…

  • The rise and fall of “Novorossiya: Examining support for a separatist geopolitical imaginary in southeast Ukraine

    John O''Loughlin, John Ο’loughlin et al.ARTICLEPost-Soviet Affairs2017Cited by: 37References: 14

    In the spring of 2014, some anti-Maidan protestors in southeast Ukraine, in alliance with activists from Russia, agitated for the creation of a large separatist entity on Ukrainian territory. These efforts sought to revive a historic region called Novorossiya (“New Russia”) on the northern shores of the Black Sea that was created by Russian imperial colonizers. In public remarks, Vladimir Putin cited Novorossiya as a historic and contemporary hom…

  • Mountainous Terrain and Civil Wars: Geospatial Analysis of Conflict Dynamics in the Post-Soviet Caucasus

    Andrew M Linke, Frank D W Witmer et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the American…2017Cited by: 4References: 44

    Existing research on the relationship between mountainous terrain and conflict has generally been implemented using crude metrics capturing the actions and motivations of armed groups, both insurgent and government. We provide a more geographically nuanced investigation of two specific propositions relating mountainous terrain to violent conflict activity. Our study covers five wars in the Caucasus region: the second North Caucasus war in Chechny…

  • Data ethics: Pluralism, replication, conflicts of interest, and standards in Political Geography

    Open AccessJohn O''Loughlin, John Ο’loughlin et al.ARTICLEPolitical Geography2015Cited by: 3References: 11

  • Convincing State-Builders? Disaggregating Internal Legitimacy in Abkhazia

    Open AccessKristin M Bakke, John O''Loughlin et al.ARTICLEInternational Studies Quarterly2014Cited by: 50References: 39

    De facto states, functional on the ground but unrecognized by most states, have long been black boxes for systematic empirical research. This study investigates de facto states' internal legitimacy—people's confidence in the entity itself, the regime, and institutions. While internal legitimacy is important for any state, it is particularly important for de facto states, whose lack of external legitimacy has made internal legitimacy integral to t…

  • Predators, sanctions and Political Geography

    Open AccessJohn O''Loughlin, John Ο’loughlin et al.ARTICLEPolitical Geography2014Cited by: 1References: 27

  • Inside South Ossetia: A Survey of Attitudes in Ade Factostate

    Gerard Toal, John O''Loughlin et al.ARTICLEPost-Soviet Affairs2013Cited by: 27References: 29

    South Ossetia was the main site of the August 2008 war between Georgian military forces, local South Ossetian forces, and the Russian military. Soon thereafter, the Russian Federation recognized the territory as a state, the South Ossetian Republic. This article reviews the contending scripts used to understand South Ossetia and the basis of its claim to be a state. Presenting the results of a public opinion survey of Ossetians living in the terr…

  • Political Geography in the age of electronic information

    Open AccessJohn O''Loughlin, John Ο’loughlin et al.ARTICLEPolitical Geography2013Cited by: 2References: 8

  • The Diffusion of Violence in the North Caucasus of Russia, 1999-2010

    Open AccessJohn O''Loughlin, John Ο’loughlin et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2012Cited by: 5References: 33

    Despite an increase in attention to 'geography' in civil war research, local dynamics in violence remain poorly understood. To address this gap, we analyze disaggregated violent event data for the North Caucasus of Russia from the start of the second Chechen war, in August 1999, to July 2010. We employ a diffusion perspective to examine the spread of the conflict from its Chechen nucleus and we identify the tit-for-tat nature of the conflict betw…

  • Inside Abkhazia: Survey of Attitudes in aDe FactoState

    John O''Loughlin, John Ο’loughlin et al.ARTICLEPost-Soviet Affairs2011Cited by: 49References: 17

    Testing claims about a region often glibly described by outsiders, thus checking assumptions upon which policy recommendations are based, this article examines residents' attitudes in the de facto state of Abkhazia. The results of a nationally representative social scientific survey in Abkhazia in March 2010 are presented in five themes—security and perceived well-being, the life-world identifications of respondents, views of state-building princ…

  • Inter-ethnic friendships in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina: Sociodemographic and place influences

    Open AccessJohn O''Loughlin, John Ο’loughlin et al.ARTICLEEthnicities2010Cited by: 29References: 37

    International concerns about the continued ethnicization of Bosnian social and political life are both validated and challenged by the December 2005 public opinion study. Ordinary Bosnians are willing to consider cross-ethnic friendships and cooperation. The gap between ethnic elites and entrepreneurs and their constituents is evident still in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH). The optimistic note of this study is sounded by the fact that half of responde…