Justin Daniels is reading for an MPhil in Comparative Government in St. Antony's College. His research interests include authoritarian politics, social mobilizations, revolutions, and democratisation, and in particular how authoritarian regimes perceive threats from and respond to mass popular mobilizations and how these factors impact regime survival. He is also a section editor in global politics for the Oxford Political Review.
Before coming to Oxford, Justin Daniels was assistant editor of the Journal of Democracy. He graduated in 2020 from Stanford University, where he received honors in democracy, development and the rule of law.
Publications
- “Putin Has Assembled an Axis of Autocrats Against Ukraine.” 3 March 2023. Foreign Policy.
- “The Risks of Engagement with China’s Sister Cities” (with Ariane Gottlieb). 6 June 2023. Power 3.0 blog, NationalEndowment for Democracy.
- “Lessons from Sri Lanka’s Constitutional Reform,” Democracy & Society 19 (2021–22): 16–18.
- “Defining ‘Disinterest’: U.S. Influence and Impact on the Creation and Reform of the Congo, 1876–1913.” 2020.Undergraduate thesis. Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.