Julia Raven

I attended UCLA for my undergraduate education and double majored in Political Science and Communications. At UC Berkeley my subfields are international relations, comparative politics, and methodology.  My research focuses on security sector (military and police) adaptation, adaptation failures, historical legacies, and peace processes. My dissertation consists of two connected questions: first, how did colonizing powers shape their colonies' militaries and, second, how durable were those design choices in the post-colonial era.