Susanna Campbell Receives Carnegie Corporation Grant

SIS Provost Associate Professor Susanna Campbell received a $500,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York for her research project "How Security Programs in Disordered States Shape the Global Order." Campbell is a co-Principal Investigator (PI) on the grant.

In the project, Campbell and PI Aila Matanock seek to understand which domestic political actors and their broader networks invite partnerships with international actors in the security realm, how the geostrategic considerations of various powers shape their response to these invitations, and, finally, what effects these often-overlooked multi-actor security networks have on security and the constitution of the broader global security order. In other words, who is asked to build security in fragile states, who accepts, and how do the supplied multi-actor partnerships shape the global order?

The project has three core objectives: first, to conduct original comparative research across three broad regions (i.e. the Pacific, Southeast Asia, and West Africa); second, to convene diverse scholars and practitioners within each region to discuss multi-actor security networks and their influence on global order; and third, to share the findings from the regional research, framework paper, and workshops broadly and establish a global network of scholars who will continue studying evolving multi-actor security networks and how they constitute a changing world order.

Cambell's research examines research-to-policy translation as well as interactions between international and domestic actors in fragile and conflict-affected contexts, addressing debates in the statebuilding, peacebuilding, peacekeeping, international aid, global governance, and foreign policy literatures. Her first book, Global Governance and Local Peace (Cambridge University Press, 2018), argues that because global governance actors are accountable to external stakeholders, seemingly "bad behavior" by country-based staff is necessary for local peacebuilding performance. It was shortlisted for the 2020 Conflict Research Society Book of the Year Prize and featured as one of the 2018 top picks for engaged scholarship by Political Violence @ a Glance. She is finishing a co-authored second book, Aid in Conflict, that explains how and why aid donors engage differently with war-torn countries.

The Carnegie Corporation of New York is one of America's oldest grantmaking foundations, established in 1911 by Andrew Carnegie to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding. Today the foundation works to reduce political polarization through philanthropic support for the issues that Carnegie considered most important: education, democracy, and peace.