Research Interests

Dr. Call's research interests include post-war peacebuilding, post-conflict governance and reconstruction, Latin America & the Caribbean, human rights and democratization, and justice and security sector reform.

Selected Publications

• Why Peace Fails: The Causes and Prevention of Civil War Recurrence. Georgetown University Press, 2012.   
• Building States to Build Peace.(ed.) Lynne Rienner, 2008.   
• Constructing Security and Justice After War.  (ed.) U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2007.   
• “Beyond the ‘Failed State’: Toward Conceptual Alternatives,” European Journal of International Relations, 17, 2 (June 2011, online April 2010).   
• "The Fallacy of the Failed State,” Third World Quarterly 29,8 (December 2008).   
• “Knowing Peace When You See It: Setting Standards for Peacebuilding Success,” Civil Wars 10, 2 (June 2008), 174-195.   
• “Ending Wars and Building Peace,” International Studies Perspectives 9,1 (February 2008), pp. 1-21 (with Elizabeth Cousens).   
• “Democratization, War, and State-Building: Constructing the Rule of Law in El Salvador,” Journal of Latin American Studies 35:4 (November 2003).   
• “War Transitions and the New Civilian Security in Latin America.”  Comparative Politics, 35:1 (October 2002).   
• “On Democracy and Peacebuilding,” Global Governance 9,2 (Spring 2003), co-authored with Susan Cook.

Media Appearances

• BBC World Service   
• ABC World News This Morning   
• CNN Spanish   
• Le Monde
• The Boston Globe   
• The Chicago Tribune
• The Philadelphia Inquirer
• The New York Times
• The Washington Times
• The Los Angeles Times