Book Project

  • Purges in Dictatorships (book manuscript under review)

Book Workshop

A book workshop was held at Indiana University, Bloomington in October 2024, bringing together leading scholars to provide structured feedback on the manuscript. Participants included:

  • Brett Carter, University of Southern California
  • Henk Goemans, University of Rochester
  • Sheena Greitens, University of Texas, Austin
  • Dan Mattingly, Yale University
  • Monika Nalepa, University of Chicago
  • Jessica Weeks, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Joe Wright, Penn State University

Research Support

This project has received support from several external funding sources:

  • Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2022–2024): 24-month fellowship
  • Carnegie Research Incentive Grant (2018): data collection
  • British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (2018): data collection

Related Publications

  • Sudduth, Jun Koga. 2026. “Double-Edged Swords: How Military Purges Shape Authoritarian Appetite for War.War on the Rocks.
  • Sudduth, Jun Koga. 2021. “Purging Militaries: Introducing the Military Purges in Dictatorships (MPD) Dataset.” Journal of Peace Research 58(4): 870–880.
  • Sudduth, Jun Koga. 2017. “Strategic Logic of Elite Purges in Dictatorships.” Comparative Political Studies 50(13): 1768–1801.