Christoph Zürcher (also spelled Zuercher, born 3 June 1967) is a professor at the graduate school of public and international affairs at the University of Ottawa, where he has been since 2008. He was previously a professor of political science at the Free University in Berlin. He was also a Humboldt fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Role of Law at Stanford University.

Books Zürcher is the author of: The Post-Soviet Wars: Rebellion, Ethnic Conflict, and Nationhood in the Caucasus (NYU Press, 2007)Reviews of The Post-Soviet Wars: Pavel Baev (2008), Journal of Peace Research, Luisa Bunescu (2012), H-Net, Robert Legvold (2008), Foreign Affairs, Florian Mühlfried (2011), Osteuropa, Ara Sanjian (2010), Central Asian Survey, Benjamin Smith (2013), "Separatist conflict in the former Soviet Union and beyond: How different was Communism?", World Politics,

His edited volumes include: Potentials of Disorder: New Approaches to Conflict Analysis (with Jan Koehler, Manchester University Press, 2003)Reviews of Potentials of Disorder: Dejan Jović (2004), Europe-Asia Studies, Monica Duffy Toft (2005), Slavic Review, , Špela Veselič (2006), Perspectives, Interventionskultur: Zur Soziologie von Interventionsgesellshaften (with Thorsten Bonacker, Michael Daxner, and Jan H. Free, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2010) Costly Democracy: Peacebuilding and Democratization After War (with Carrie Manning, Kristie D. Evenson, Rachel Hayman, Sarah Riese, and Nora Roehner, Stanford University Press, 2013)Reviews of Costly Democracy: Anna K. Jarstad (2014), Democratization, Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs (2014), Perspectives on Politics, , Ryan Shaffer (2014), Democracy and Security, ,

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