Tanisha Fazal

Background & Expertise

Tanisha Fazal is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Her scholarship focuses on sovereignty, international law and armed conflict. Fazal’s current research analyzes the relationship between climate change and global politics. She is the author of “State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation” (Princeton University Press, 2007), winner of the 2008 Best Book Award of the American Political Science Association’s Conflict Processes Section; “Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict” (Cornell University Press, 2018), winner of the 2019 Best Book Award of the International Studies Association’s International Law Section and the 2019 Best Book Award of the American Political Science Association’s International Collaboration Section; and most recently, “Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War” (Oxford University Press, 2024). Her work has also appeared in journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, Daedalus, Foreign Affairs, International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Journal of Global Security Studies, The Lancet, and Security Studies. She has been a fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, and the Carnegie Council on International Ethics. From 2021–23, she was an Andrew Carnegie Fellow.