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Additional Positions at AU Director of Comparative and Regional Studies Jessica Trisko Darden is an Assistant Professor with the School of International Service and Director of the Comparative and Regional Studies Program. Professor Trisko's research focuses on the influence of international actors on intrastate conflict and political violence, particularly within Asia. She is currently finalizing a book entitled Financing Repression: Foreign Assistance, Coercive Capacity and Patterns of State Violence. This research examines the relationship between foreign assistance to the developing world and patterns of state-led violence against civilians in aid recipient countries. It considers how the provision of bilateral foreign aid may exacerbate government repression and potentially trigger violence, thereby raising fundamental questions about the consequences of various forms of foreign assistance. Professor Trisko is also leading a project on Women in Combat Roles (WiCR), which measures female participation in national militaries and armed non-state actors from the outbreak of the Second World War until the present day. She has published peer-reviewed articles on alliance dynamics, political violence, and human security. Her interviews and commentary on national security in Asia and women's roles in international politics and conflict have appeared on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5, CNN, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Today Show. Prof. Trisko was formerly a Visiting Scholar with Yale University's Program on Order, Conflict and Violence (2010-2012) and the Mansfield Foundation (Summer 2010).