Monica Toft

Associate Professor of Public Policy
Kennedy School
Office Address
Littauer-376B
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 53
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-3966
Fax: 617-496-2254
Email: monica_toft@ksg.harvard.edu
Assistant
Meghan Tinsley (617-496-2737)
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Profile

Monica Duffy Toft is Associate Professor of Public Policy and director of the Initiative on Religion on International Affairs. She was a research intern at the RAND Corporation and served in the U.S. Army in southern Germany as a Russian voice interceptor. Her research interests include international relations, religion, nationalism and ethnic conflict, civil and interstate wars, the relationship between demography and national security, and military and strategic planning. She is the author of three books, The Geography of Ethnic Violence, Securing the Peace, and an edited volume, The Fog of Peace: Strategic and Military Planning Under Uncertainty. She holds a PhD and MA from the University of Chicago and a BA in political science and Slavic languages and literatures from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

 

Courses

Fall

  • IGA-307 Religion in Global Politics

Year

  • ENR-150Y Seminar: Energy and Environmental Policy
  • ISP-150Y Seminar: International Security and Political Economy
  • STP-150Y Seminar: Science, Technology, and Public Policy

Media Expertise

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Research

For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Magazine and Newspaper Articles
    • Toft, Monica Duffy. "Russia's Recipe for Empire." Foreign Policy. September 2008.
    • Toft, Monica Duffy. "Nasty, Brutish and Long." Prospect Magazine. April 2009.