Ioana Emy Matesan

Ioana Emy Matesan is Associate Professor of Government and Tutor in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University. Her research focuses on contentious politics, Islamist movements and diasporic activism, and it has been published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, International Negotiation, Journal of Global Security Studies, Nations and Nationalism, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and Terrorism and Political Violence, among others. Her book, The Violence Pendulum (Oxford University Press 2020), explores why Islamist groups adopt or abandon violent tactics, with a focus on Egypt and Indonesia.