Draft:Sidita Kushi

Sidita Kushi is a political scientist.

Early life and education
Kushi was born and raised in Albania by her parents, Edmond and Shpresa Kushi, but migrated to the United States alongside her family as a child. She has one sibling, a sister named Odeta Kushi.

Kushi graduated from St. John Fisher University in 2010 with a BA in Economics & International Studies. In 2013, she earned a MA in political science with a focus on international relations and interdisciplinary economics from Northeastern University. She also earned a Ph.D in political science from Northeastern University in 2018.

Career
Kushi worked as a Lecturer in International Relations and Statistics at Northeastern University, and for the Department of State as a policy and economics researcher.

Odeta Kushi holds the position of deputy chief economist at First American Financial Corporation.

She currently works at Bridgewater State University as an Assistant Professor of Political Science. She is also a Non-Residential Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (CSS) at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

Her research focuses on the impact of conflict and military action on the economy, especially in regards to internal conflict, the role of gender in conflict, policy responses, and trends in military interventions performed by the U.S. army. She has published articles in The Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Relations, Comparative European Politics, European Security, World Affairs, International Labour Review, and Mediterranean Quarterly. She has also written on these topics for Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, MSNBC, and The National Interest.

In 2023, she published the book Dying by the Sword: The Militarization of U.S. Foreign Policy through Oxford University Press.

She plans to release a second book, titled From Kosovo to Darfur: Why Humanitarian Militarism Favors the West, with the University of Michigan Press.

Editor-reviewed publications







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