Dr. Kit Rickard

Haldeneggsteig 4
8092 Zürich
Switzerland

Phone: +41 44 632 63 70
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Dr. Kit Rickard is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the Political Science Department at University College London (UCL). His research spans international relations, peace studies, and comparative politics, and primarily concerns three themes: international security, civil war dynamics, and the legacies of war.

His research is primarily concerned with the international dimension of civil wars, tackling questions of why, when, and how the international network of states intervene in foreign civil wars and their impact on rebel dynamics. He also investigates the legacies of civil war, focusing on communal legacies of informal rule and state-society relations in Northern Ireland. Finally, Kit employs innovative quantitative designs to study public opinion in the former-Soviet space, with a particular focus on Ukraine.

Selected Publications:

external pageBakke, K.M.; Rickard, K. (2023) 'Ten Pound Touts: Post-Conflict Trust and the Legacy of Counterinsurgency in Northern Ireland', WIDER Working Paper 2023/18. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER.

external pageBakke, Kristin M.; Kit Rickard & John O'Loughlin (2023) 'Perceptions of the Past in the Post-Soviet Space', Post-Soviet Affairs 39, 4: 223-256.

external pageRickard, Kit & Kristin M. Bakke (2021) 'Legacies of Wartime Order: Punishment Attacks and Social Control in Northern Ireland', Security Studies 30, 4: 603-636.

external pageKarlén, Niklas; Vladimir Rauta; Idean Salehyan; Andrew Mumford; Belgin San-Akca; Alexandra Stark; Michel Wyss; Assaf Moghadam; Allard Duursma; Henning Tamm; Erin K Jenne; Milos Popovic; David S Siroky; Vanessa Meier; Alexandra Chinchilla; Kit Rickard & Giuseppe Spatafora (2021) 'Forum: Conflict Delegation in Civil Wars', International Studies Review 23, 4: 2048-2078.

external pageRauta, Vladimir; Matthew Ayton; Alexandra Chinchilla; Andreas Krieg; Christopher Rickard & Jean-Marc Rickli (2019) 'A Symposium – Debating "Surrogate Warfare" and the Transformation of War', Defence Studies 19, 4: 410-430.