Michael Shurkin
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Education
Overview
Biography
Michael Shurkin is a political scientist at the RAND Corporation. He previously worked in the Intelligence Community, where he served as a political analyst, first with African accounts and then South Asia. Prior to that he was a lecturer in the history department at Johns Hopkins University. Shurkin received his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in modern European history from Yale University, and his B.A. in history from Stanford University; and he also studied at l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
Research Focus
Recent Projects
- Subnational government in Afghanistan
Selected Publications
Shurkin, Michael, Subnational Government in Afghanistan, RAND Corporation (OP-318), 2011
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