Monica Toft

Associate Professor of Public Policy
Kennedy School
Office Address
Littauer-376B
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 53
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-3966
Fax: 617-496-2254
Email: monica_toft@ksg.harvard.edu
Assistant
Meghan Tinsley (617-496-2737)
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Profile

Monica Duffy Toft is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and the Director of the Initiative on Religion in International Affairs. She was a research intern at the RAND Corporation and served in the U.S. Army in southern Germany as a Russian voice interceptor. Her research interests include international relations, religion, nationalism and ethnic conflict, civil and interstate wars, the relationship between demography and national security, and military and strategic planning. She is the author of three books, The Geography of Ethnic Violence: Identity, Interests, and Territory, an edited volume, The Fog of Peace: Strategic and Military Planning Under Uncertainty, and a third on civil war termination: Securing the Peace. She holds a PhD and MA from the University of Chicago and a BA in political science and Slavic languages and literatures from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

 

Courses

Fall

  • IGA-315 Civil Wars: Theory and Policy
  • IGA-307 Religion in Global Politics

Year

  • ENR-150Y Seminar: Energy and Environmental Policy
  • ISP-150Y Seminar: International Security and Political Economy
  • STP-150Y Seminar: Science, Technology, and Public Policy

Media Expertise

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Research

Research for a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Academic Journals
    • Toft, Monica Duffy. "Population Shifts and Civil War: A Test of Power Transition Theory." International Interactions 33.3 (July-September 2007): 243-269.
    • Toft, Monica Duffy. "Getting Religion? The Puzzling Case of Islam and Civil War." International Security 31.4 (Spring 2007): 97.
    • Toft, Monica Duffy. "The Myth of the Borderless World: Refugees and Repatriation Policy." Conflict Management and Peace Science 24.2 (2007): 139-157.
  • Op-Eds
    • Toft, Monica Duffy. "Why Islam Lies at the Heart of Iraq's Civil War." Christian Science Monitor, June 2, 2008.
  • Research Papers/Reports
    • Toft, Monica Duffy. “Religion, Demography and War." Paper presented at the Religion and Violence Symposium, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri, October 2007.
    • Toft, Monica Duffy, with Timothy Shah. “God and Global Politics." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, 2007.
    • Toft, Monica Duffy. "Demographic Shifts and Security Policy: The Case of Israel." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, 2007.