Publications
Denny, Sean, Gabriel Englander, and Patrick Hunnicutt**. 2024. "Private management of African protected areas improves wildlife and tourism outcomes but with security concerns in conflict regions." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Hunnicutt, Patrick* and Kou M. Gbaintor-Johnson. 2023. "The Missing Link: Informal Political Elites and Protest in Areas of Limited Statehood." Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Hunnicutt, Patrick. 2023. "International Peacekeeping Encourages Extractive Sector Investment: Subnational Evidence from Liberia." Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Buntaine, Mark, Bing Zhang, and Patrick Hunnicutt. 2021. "Citizen Monitoring of Waterways Decreases Pollution in China by Supporting Government Action and Oversight." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Buntaine, Mark, Patrick Hunnicutt, and Polycarp Komakech. 2020. "The Challenges of Using Citizen Reporting to Improve Public Services: A Field Experiment on Solid Waste Services in Uganda." The Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.
Hunnicutt, Patrick** and William G. Nomikos. 2020. "Nationality, Gender, and Deployments at the Local Level: Introducing the RADPKO Dataset." International Peacekeeping 27 (4): 645-672.
O'Neill, Kate, Erika Weinthal , and Patrick Hunnicutt. 2017. “Seeing complexity: visualization tools in global environmental politics and governance.” Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 7: 490-506.
Hunnicutt, Patrick* and Kou M. Gbaintor-Johnson. 2023. "The Missing Link: Informal Political Elites and Protest in Areas of Limited Statehood." Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Hunnicutt, Patrick. 2023. "International Peacekeeping Encourages Extractive Sector Investment: Subnational Evidence from Liberia." Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Buntaine, Mark, Bing Zhang, and Patrick Hunnicutt. 2021. "Citizen Monitoring of Waterways Decreases Pollution in China by Supporting Government Action and Oversight." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Buntaine, Mark, Patrick Hunnicutt, and Polycarp Komakech. 2020. "The Challenges of Using Citizen Reporting to Improve Public Services: A Field Experiment on Solid Waste Services in Uganda." The Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.
Hunnicutt, Patrick** and William G. Nomikos. 2020. "Nationality, Gender, and Deployments at the Local Level: Introducing the RADPKO Dataset." International Peacekeeping 27 (4): 645-672.
O'Neill, Kate, Erika Weinthal , and Patrick Hunnicutt. 2017. “Seeing complexity: visualization tools in global environmental politics and governance.” Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 7: 490-506.
Under Review
"A Strategic Logic of Violence against United Nations Peacekeepers." (with William Nomikos and Rob Williams)**
"Air pollution is associated with lower levels of social movement participation, especially among well-resourced communities." (with Geoffrey Henderson)*
"Air pollution is associated with lower levels of social movement participation, especially among well-resourced communities." (with Geoffrey Henderson)*
- Published as a UC-Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Working Paper
Manuscripts In Preparation
"Evaluating Water Conservation Policy in California." (with Leah Stokes)
(* = PH is first author, ** = authors made equal contributions)
Works-in-Progress
Peacekeeping in the Commons: How International Intervention Can Promote Intercommunal Cooperation in a Climate-changed World. (book-length project, with William Nomikos)
- Climate change poses an existential threat to the human well-being around the world. This is especially true for populations residing in fragile and conflict-affected settings. Nations emerging from or actively experiencing violent conflict make up one-third of the world’s most climate-sensitive countries and – because violent conflict frequently erodes the economic, political, and social institutions required for effective governance – one-half of the countries least prepared to engage in climate adaptation. Recent academic research has documented the effects of climate change on peace and development cross-nationally, as has emerging anecdotal evidence from in the African Sahel, East Africa, and the Middle East. For example, recent climate change-driven flooding in South Sudan has inhibited humanitarians’ access to millions of displaced persons and risks exacerbating violence related to land-use conflicts along transhumance routes. Despite the focus of much scholarly debate on the security-related effects of climate change (see Barnett and Adger (2007), Burke, Hsiang, and Miguel (2015) and Koubi (2019), and Busby (2022) for extensive reviews), concrete strategies to mitigate the destabilizing potential of climate change in fragile settings remain elusive. Although such strategies are urgently needed, they are difficult to conceptualize, measure, and evaluate systematically. Patrolling the Commons: Peacekeeping and Conflict in a Climate-Changed World offers a new analytical framework, novel data from multiple fragile settings, and a multi-method research design to investigate the role of United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations, an oft-proposed tool for mitigate climate-driven conflict (Busby, Smith, and Krishnan 2014, Mach et al. 2019).
Commentary and Policy Reports
"Pollution & Politics." On the Impolitic Podcast, w/Geoffrey Henderson, Jeffrey Treistman, and Matthew Schmidt.
Hunnicutt, Patrick. 2021. "Should UN Peacekeepers Help Regulate Conflict Minerals?" Political Violence at a Glance. May 6.
Nomikos, William, Melanie Sauter, Rob Williams, and Patrick Hunnicutt. 2020. "The Military Has Ousted Mali’s President. That Raises Questions about the Country's Ongoing Security Challenges." The Monkey Cage. August 26.
Hunnicutt, Patrick. 2021. "Should UN Peacekeepers Help Regulate Conflict Minerals?" Political Violence at a Glance. May 6.
Nomikos, William, Melanie Sauter, Rob Williams, and Patrick Hunnicutt. 2020. "The Military Has Ousted Mali’s President. That Raises Questions about the Country's Ongoing Security Challenges." The Monkey Cage. August 26.
