Ore Koren

Ore Koren is an assistant professor of political science in the College of Arts and Science at Indiana University Bloomington, specialising in international relations and research methodology. Previously, Koren was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Dickey Center at Dartmouth College and a Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace.

Within international relations, his research has involved innovative approaches to studying the causes of civil conflict, with an emphasis on how environmental pressures shape patterns of political violence. His methodological interests include limited dependent variable models and applied Bayesian statistics, mixed and combined methods approaches and event data.

Koren’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in multiple academic journals and has been mentioned in numerous policy outlets. He has also co-authored a book, “The Politics of Mass Killing in Autocratic Regimes”, which was published in June 2018. He completed his PhD at the University of Minnesota, where he also obtained an MSc in applied economics.