Jason Miklian
Biographic Data
| ID | 828805 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Miklian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Miklian |
| SIGNATURE | MIKLIAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1227-0975 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Solar extraversion: Incumbent interests, foreign capital and the making of Morocco's megaproject strategy
Solar energy is widely expected to decentralize electricity production but lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs) governments can opt for centralized megaprojects instead. In Morocco, decentralized generation and self-production is legalized, but the state, foreign donors, and private investors instead prioritized the Noor Ouarzazate complex, the world's largest concentrated solar power plant. We argue that this outcome is better explained by…
A new digital divide? Coder worldviews, the ‘Slop economy,’ and democracy in the age of AI
Systems analysis and peacebuilding: A conceptual stock-taking and forward research agenda
Business, Politics, and Patriotism: Relationships Between Antonio López de Santa Anna and Foreign Nationals in Mexico, 1829–1847
Antonio Lpez de Santa Anna is one of the most well-known yet misunderstood figures in North American history. His periods of rule in the mid-nineteenth century helped bring Mexico its independence, lost Mexico nearly half of its territory, and shaped its future conceptions of what a leader is and should be. He is often remembered as a simple caudillo, a strongman who built relationships with foreign actors for personal gain. But how does this per…
Introduction: Research in the Time of Covid-19
Notes1 Inspiration from the organizer’s conference call is acknowledged. For more information, see https://fau.dk/non-regular%2525252520activites/joint-nordic-development-research-conferences--3/index.html2 See for an example of the ongoing discussions of these issues: https://www.eadi.org/wg/postcolonial/3 See Bhambra (Citation2017) for an example of how to conceive of such challenges
Broadening 'business', widening 'peace: A New Research Agenda on Business and Peace-Building
What role does business play in peace-building and conflict reduction? This special issue tackles this complex question, exploring varied business efforts to bring peace through six rigorous qualitative cases in Myanmar, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Somaliland, Brazil, Guatemala and El Salvador. Three main findings cut across this issue. First, local context is paramount to success; there is no one universal formula that a regulator…
Contextualising and theorising economic development, local business and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar
After Myanmar ended military rule in 2011, significant foreign investment arrived to facilitate a profitable transition to an integrated regional economy, and under the promise that foreign actors can help facilitate peaceful long-term development. However, these firms have also tacitly supported an ethnic cleansing committed by the government that most have partnered with or funded. This article builds theory on economic opening, development and…
The business–peace nexus: ‘Business for Peace’ and the Reconfiguration of the Public/Private Divide in Global Governance
Smart Cities, Mobile Technologies and Social Cohesion in India
India’s cities are projected to grow by 300 million people by 2050, but this demographic transition may exacerbate fragile communal and infrastructural tensions. To address these challenges, the ‘Smart Cities’ agenda attempts to leverage India’s rapid embrace of technology to generate societal positive developmental outcomes in urban areas that emphasize the use of Internet and communications technologies (ICTs). However, local, regional and nati…
Conflict, Peacekeeping, and Humanitarian Security: Understanding Violent Attacks Against Aid Workers
What factors explain attacks on humanitarian aid workers? Most research has tended to describe trends rather than analyse the underlying reasons behind attacks. To move this agenda forward, we present to our knowledge the first peer-reviewed cross-national time-series study that identifies factors related to violent attacks on humanitarian aid workers. Our theoretical framework explores two sets of potential explanatory factors: dynamics of confl…
A new research approach for Peace Innovation
How can we foster more socially responsible pro-peace innovations that also have deeper impact? In arguing that incorporating contextual, area-specific and conflict-sensitive guidance enhances the quality and depth of innovation, this article calls for a new research approach on Peace Innovation (PI). This approach could help overcome four existing challenges: expanding the scholar–entrepreneur–policy triad of PI; prioritizing ethical, culturally…
Moving media and conflict studies beyond the CNN effect
After the ‘CNN effect’ concept was coined two decades ago, it quickly became a popular shorthand to understand media-conflict interactions. Although the connection has probably always been more complex than what was captured in the concept, research needs to be updated in order to better understand the multifaceted contemporary environments of both media and conflict. There are growing numbers and types of media sources, and multiple interactions…
Religion, poverty and conflict in a garbage slum of Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad is often called an Indian ‘success story’ in terms of economic urbanization, but it is also a city highly segregated along religious and caste lines, and a flashpoint in the 2002 Hindu–Muslim riots that left thousands dead. Most of the Muslim communities relocated after the violence work in a vast informal sector around the city’s landfills and waste management peripheries that are disregarded by local government and endemic with corrup…
The Political Ecology of War in Maoist India
War, business, and democracy can intersect in complex ways. In India, mining companies operate throughout a warzone between the government and a Maoist insurgency. Mining companies promised that their activities would benefit local populations, but over-reliance on the government to implement development initiatives eroded public faith. The Maoists used the implementation gap to recruit fighters and build public support through an anti-state and …
Hearts and mines: A district-level analysis of the Maoist conflict in India
India’s rapid economic growth over the last decade has been coupled with a Maoist insurgency that competes with the state for rural allegiance. In response to the threat, the Government of India has securitized development, using public works programmes in an attempt to sway locals away from Maoist allegiance. However, these areas are also home to massive iron and coal mines that drive India’s growth. This study aims to address the lack of local-…
The perils of 'going local: Liberal peace-building agendas in Nepal
Responding to recent critiques, foreign aid organisations are increasingly 'going local' in their operations in order to integrate local actors into their peace-building and aid projects. This is done under the belief that entering into partnerships directly with grassroots actors will increase local autonomy in joint ventures, thus empowering locals as agents of change both during and after the project period. But despite its normative and conce…
Revolutionary conflict in federations: The Indian case
Federations promise to provide autonomous, representative governance that is flexible enough to overcome potential internal conflict resulting from the dual stresses of governing diverse populations and power overreach. India is the world's biggest federation but also hosts the most violent revolution in modern history against a federal state. Since 2004, 150,000 people have been killed or displaced in the war between the Communist Party of India…
The purification hunt: The Salwa Judum counterinsurgency in Chhattisgarh, India
International Media’s Role on U.S.-Small State Relations: The Case of Nepal
U.S. foreign policy relationships toward states with which it assumes limited geostrategic significance are often simplistic in design and misguided in their calculations because of the disproportionate weight given to the limited information from which policy is synthesized. International media outlets exacerbate this problem by underreporting, improperly framing stories, combining distinct events, piggybacking upon their domestic counterparts, …
Book Notes
Hearts and mines: A district-level analysis of the Maoist conflict in India
India’s rapid economic growth over the last decade has been coupled with a Maoist insurgency that competes with the state for rural allegiance. In response to the threat, the Government of India has securitized development, using public works programmes in an attempt to sway locals away from Maoist allegiance. However, these areas are also home to massive iron and coal mines that drive India’s growth. This study aims to address the lack of local-…
Conflict, Peacekeeping, and Humanitarian Security: Understanding Violent Attacks Against Aid Workers
What factors explain attacks on humanitarian aid workers? Most research has tended to describe trends rather than analyse the underlying reasons behind attacks. To move this agenda forward, we present to our knowledge the first peer-reviewed cross-national time-series study that identifies factors related to violent attacks on humanitarian aid workers. Our theoretical framework explores two sets of potential explanatory factors: dynamics of confl…
Contextualising and theorising economic development, local business and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar
After Myanmar ended military rule in 2011, significant foreign investment arrived to facilitate a profitable transition to an integrated regional economy, and under the promise that foreign actors can help facilitate peaceful long-term development. However, these firms have also tacitly supported an ethnic cleansing committed by the government that most have partnered with or funded. This article builds theory on economic opening, development and…
A new research approach for Peace Innovation
How can we foster more socially responsible pro-peace innovations that also have deeper impact? In arguing that incorporating contextual, area-specific and conflict-sensitive guidance enhances the quality and depth of innovation, this article calls for a new research approach on Peace Innovation (PI). This approach could help overcome four existing challenges: expanding the scholar–entrepreneur–policy triad of PI; prioritizing ethical, culturally…
The business–peace nexus: ‘Business for Peace’ and the Reconfiguration of the Public/Private Divide in Global Governance
The perils of 'going local: Liberal peace-building agendas in Nepal
Responding to recent critiques, foreign aid organisations are increasingly 'going local' in their operations in order to integrate local actors into their peace-building and aid projects. This is done under the belief that entering into partnerships directly with grassroots actors will increase local autonomy in joint ventures, thus empowering locals as agents of change both during and after the project period. But despite its normative and conce…
The purification hunt: The Salwa Judum counterinsurgency in Chhattisgarh, India
Moving media and conflict studies beyond the CNN effect
After the ‘CNN effect’ concept was coined two decades ago, it quickly became a popular shorthand to understand media-conflict interactions. Although the connection has probably always been more complex than what was captured in the concept, research needs to be updated in order to better understand the multifaceted contemporary environments of both media and conflict. There are growing numbers and types of media sources, and multiple interactions…
Revolutionary conflict in federations: The Indian case
Federations promise to provide autonomous, representative governance that is flexible enough to overcome potential internal conflict resulting from the dual stresses of governing diverse populations and power overreach. India is the world's biggest federation but also hosts the most violent revolution in modern history against a federal state. Since 2004, 150,000 people have been killed or displaced in the war between the Communist Party of India…
Broadening 'business', widening 'peace: A New Research Agenda on Business and Peace-Building
What role does business play in peace-building and conflict reduction? This special issue tackles this complex question, exploring varied business efforts to bring peace through six rigorous qualitative cases in Myanmar, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Somaliland, Brazil, Guatemala and El Salvador. Three main findings cut across this issue. First, local context is paramount to success; there is no one universal formula that a regulator…
Religion, poverty and conflict in a garbage slum of Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad is often called an Indian ‘success story’ in terms of economic urbanization, but it is also a city highly segregated along religious and caste lines, and a flashpoint in the 2002 Hindu–Muslim riots that left thousands dead. Most of the Muslim communities relocated after the violence work in a vast informal sector around the city’s landfills and waste management peripheries that are disregarded by local government and endemic with corrup…
The Political Ecology of War in Maoist India
War, business, and democracy can intersect in complex ways. In India, mining companies operate throughout a warzone between the government and a Maoist insurgency. Mining companies promised that their activities would benefit local populations, but over-reliance on the government to implement development initiatives eroded public faith. The Maoists used the implementation gap to recruit fighters and build public support through an anti-state and …
Introduction: Research in the Time of Covid-19
Notes1 Inspiration from the organizer’s conference call is acknowledged. For more information, see https://fau.dk/non-regular%2525252520activites/joint-nordic-development-research-conferences--3/index.html2 See for an example of the ongoing discussions of these issues: https://www.eadi.org/wg/postcolonial/3 See Bhambra (Citation2017) for an example of how to conceive of such challenges
International Media’s Role on U.S.-Small State Relations: The Case of Nepal
U.S. foreign policy relationships toward states with which it assumes limited geostrategic significance are often simplistic in design and misguided in their calculations because of the disproportionate weight given to the limited information from which policy is synthesized. International media outlets exacerbate this problem by underreporting, improperly framing stories, combining distinct events, piggybacking upon their domestic counterparts, …
Book Notes
The purification hunt: The Salwa Judum counterinsurgency in Chhattisgarh, India
The perils of 'going local: Liberal peace-building agendas in Nepal
Responding to recent critiques, foreign aid organisations are increasingly 'going local' in their operations in order to integrate local actors into their peace-building and aid projects. This is done under the belief that entering into partnerships directly with grassroots actors will increase local autonomy in joint ventures, thus empowering locals as agents of change both during and after the project period. But despite its normative and conce…
Revolutionary conflict in federations: The Indian case
Federations promise to provide autonomous, representative governance that is flexible enough to overcome potential internal conflict resulting from the dual stresses of governing diverse populations and power overreach. India is the world's biggest federation but also hosts the most violent revolution in modern history against a federal state. Since 2004, 150,000 people have been killed or displaced in the war between the Communist Party of India…
The Political Ecology of War in Maoist India
War, business, and democracy can intersect in complex ways. In India, mining companies operate throughout a warzone between the government and a Maoist insurgency. Mining companies promised that their activities would benefit local populations, but over-reliance on the government to implement development initiatives eroded public faith. The Maoists used the implementation gap to recruit fighters and build public support through an anti-state and …
Hearts and mines: A district-level analysis of the Maoist conflict in India
India’s rapid economic growth over the last decade has been coupled with a Maoist insurgency that competes with the state for rural allegiance. In response to the threat, the Government of India has securitized development, using public works programmes in an attempt to sway locals away from Maoist allegiance. However, these areas are also home to massive iron and coal mines that drive India’s growth. This study aims to address the lack of local-…
Moving media and conflict studies beyond the CNN effect
After the ‘CNN effect’ concept was coined two decades ago, it quickly became a popular shorthand to understand media-conflict interactions. Although the connection has probably always been more complex than what was captured in the concept, research needs to be updated in order to better understand the multifaceted contemporary environments of both media and conflict. There are growing numbers and types of media sources, and multiple interactions…
Religion, poverty and conflict in a garbage slum of Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad is often called an Indian ‘success story’ in terms of economic urbanization, but it is also a city highly segregated along religious and caste lines, and a flashpoint in the 2002 Hindu–Muslim riots that left thousands dead. Most of the Muslim communities relocated after the violence work in a vast informal sector around the city’s landfills and waste management peripheries that are disregarded by local government and endemic with corrup…
Smart Cities, Mobile Technologies and Social Cohesion in India
India’s cities are projected to grow by 300 million people by 2050, but this demographic transition may exacerbate fragile communal and infrastructural tensions. To address these challenges, the ‘Smart Cities’ agenda attempts to leverage India’s rapid embrace of technology to generate societal positive developmental outcomes in urban areas that emphasize the use of Internet and communications technologies (ICTs). However, local, regional and nati…
Conflict, Peacekeeping, and Humanitarian Security: Understanding Violent Attacks Against Aid Workers
What factors explain attacks on humanitarian aid workers? Most research has tended to describe trends rather than analyse the underlying reasons behind attacks. To move this agenda forward, we present to our knowledge the first peer-reviewed cross-national time-series study that identifies factors related to violent attacks on humanitarian aid workers. Our theoretical framework explores two sets of potential explanatory factors: dynamics of confl…
A new research approach for Peace Innovation
How can we foster more socially responsible pro-peace innovations that also have deeper impact? In arguing that incorporating contextual, area-specific and conflict-sensitive guidance enhances the quality and depth of innovation, this article calls for a new research approach on Peace Innovation (PI). This approach could help overcome four existing challenges: expanding the scholar–entrepreneur–policy triad of PI; prioritizing ethical, culturally…
The business–peace nexus: ‘Business for Peace’ and the Reconfiguration of the Public/Private Divide in Global Governance
Broadening 'business', widening 'peace: A New Research Agenda on Business and Peace-Building
What role does business play in peace-building and conflict reduction? This special issue tackles this complex question, exploring varied business efforts to bring peace through six rigorous qualitative cases in Myanmar, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Somaliland, Brazil, Guatemala and El Salvador. Three main findings cut across this issue. First, local context is paramount to success; there is no one universal formula that a regulator…
Contextualising and theorising economic development, local business and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar
After Myanmar ended military rule in 2011, significant foreign investment arrived to facilitate a profitable transition to an integrated regional economy, and under the promise that foreign actors can help facilitate peaceful long-term development. However, these firms have also tacitly supported an ethnic cleansing committed by the government that most have partnered with or funded. This article builds theory on economic opening, development and…
Introduction: Research in the Time of Covid-19
Notes1 Inspiration from the organizer’s conference call is acknowledged. For more information, see https://fau.dk/non-regular%2525252520activites/joint-nordic-development-research-conferences--3/index.html2 See for an example of the ongoing discussions of these issues: https://www.eadi.org/wg/postcolonial/3 See Bhambra (Citation2017) for an example of how to conceive of such challenges
Business, Politics, and Patriotism: Relationships Between Antonio López de Santa Anna and Foreign Nationals in Mexico, 1829–1847
Antonio Lpez de Santa Anna is one of the most well-known yet misunderstood figures in North American history. His periods of rule in the mid-nineteenth century helped bring Mexico its independence, lost Mexico nearly half of its territory, and shaped its future conceptions of what a leader is and should be. He is often remembered as a simple caudillo, a strongman who built relationships with foreign actors for personal gain. But how does this per…
Systems analysis and peacebuilding: A conceptual stock-taking and forward research agenda
Solar extraversion: Incumbent interests, foreign capital and the making of Morocco's megaproject strategy
Solar energy is widely expected to decentralize electricity production but lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs) governments can opt for centralized megaprojects instead. In Morocco, decentralized generation and self-production is legalized, but the state, foreign donors, and private investors instead prioritized the Noor Ouarzazate complex, the world's largest concentrated solar power plant. We argue that this outcome is better explained by…
A new digital divide? Coder worldviews, the ‘Slop economy,’ and democracy in the age of AI
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Development economics (6 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works)