Discussant: Lucas Owen, Ph.D.Student, Political Science
Dr. Eduardo Moncada is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University. In his first book, Cities, Business and the Politics of Urban Violence in Latin America (Stanford University Press, 2016), Dr. Moncada examined how the interaction of urban political economies and patterns of armed territorial control shape major cities’ in the developing world responses to urban violence. His current book, Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, 2021) investigates variation in victims’ strategies of resistance to criminal victimization through studying criminal extortion in Latin America.