Natasha Lindstaedt is a Professor of Government at the University of Essex. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Politics and International Relations from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on authoritarian politics, development, state building, violent non-state actors and human security. She is the author of many books in these areas including: Democratic Decay and Authoritarian Resurgence (Bristol University Press, 2021), Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes (Oxford University Press, 2019), Global Politics and Violent Non-State Actors (Sage, 2017), and Dictators and Dictatorships (Bloomsbury, 2011). She has consulted for the European Union External Action Service, IDEA International and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission of Western Asia (UNESCWA). Her latest book is Human Security in Disease and Disaster (Routledge, 2021).
