Jesse Driscoll is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California at San Diego. His first book, Warlords and Coalition Politics in Post-Soviet States (2015), was published by Cambridge University Press in the Series on Comparative Politics, and was honored with the Best Book Award by the Central Eurasian Studies Society and the Furniss Award. He has conducted fieldwork in Tajikistan, Georgia, and Ukraine. He has a book forthcoming from Columbia University Press tentatively titled Doing Global Fieldwork: A Social Scientist’s Guide To Mixed-Methods Research in Difficult Places and a book under review (co-authored with Dominique Arel) on the causes and consequences of the ongoing war in Ukraine.