Ranjit Lall’s award-winning paper on economic impact of slave-raiding in Eastern Europe published

Associate Professor of International Political Economy Ranjit Lall’s award-winning paper on the economic impact of slave-raiding in Eastern Europe has been published online in the American Political Science Review.

‘Consequences of the Black Sea Slave Trade: Long-Run Development in Eastern Europe’, co-authored with Volha Charnysh, explores how slave raids – military operations with the goal of seizing people to be sold or forced into slavery – shaped Eastern Europe’s long-run economic development. The article is open access.

Last year Ranjit won the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Politics and History Section’s David Brian Robertson Best Paper Award for the paper.

The award is presented annually for the best paper in the field of politics and history presented at the previous annual meeting.