Biography
Professor Anja Shortland is a Professor of Political Economy. Anja studies private governance in the world’s trickiest markets: hostages, fine art, and antiquities—and how people live, trade, and invest in complex and hostile territories. Although often based on data analysis, her work usually cuts across disciplinary boundaries adopting techniques and insights from sociology, engineering, geography, politics, international relations and economics.
Anja was an Engineering and Economics undergraduate at Oxford and then did her Masters and PhD in International Relations at the LSE. Before coming to King's she worked as a lecturer in Economics at Leicester, a Reader in Economics at Brunel University and as a consultant to the World Bank.
Office hours
My office hours are 10.00 - 11.00 on Tuesdays and 9.30 - 10.30 on Wednesdays on Microsoft Teams by prior appointment. Please e-mail me by 17.00 the day before the appointment and I will send you an invite.
Research
Anja's research focuses on how people structure trades in markets where states do not reliably provide law and order. How can legal entities successfully transact with criminal enterprises? How do private enterprises control and discourage criminal activity when law enforcement is weak? Anja has published widely on the issue of kidnap and hijack for ransom and co-authored the 2013 World Bank Policy Report: "The Pirates of Somalia: Ending the Threat; Rebuilding a Nation." Her book: Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business is published by Oxford University Press in 2019.
Anja welcomes PhD applications in the fields of the economics of crime, informal governance and peace science, including from professionals with experience in these areas.
Teaching
- Peace Science (Year 3)
- Economics of Crime (Year 3)
PhD Supervision
Anja welcomes PhD applications in the fields of the economics of crime, informal governance and peace science, including from professionals with experience in these areas.
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Shortland, A. & Shortland, A., 5 Aug 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : PUBLIC CHOICE. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article
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Shortland, A., 7 Feb 2019, UK: OUP Oxford. 249 p. Research output: Book/Report - Book
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Shortland, A., Apr 2018, In : Governance. 31, 2, p. 341-358 18 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12290
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Shortland, A. & Keatinge, T., 12 Sep 2017, In : RUSI Occasional Paper. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article
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Shortland, A., Apr 2017, In : Governance. 30, 2, p. 283-299 Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12255
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Shortland, A., 2017, Militarised Responses to Transnational Organised Crime: The War on Crime. BFI Publishing/Palgrave Macmillan, p. 169-183 15 p. Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding - Chapter. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57565-0_10
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Gates, S., Skrede Gleditsch, K. & Shortland, A., 1 Dec 2016, In : Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy. 22, 4 Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1515/peps-2016-0030
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Shortland, A., Dec 2015, In : Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy. 21, 4, p. 419-431 Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1515/peps-2015-0018
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Shortland, A. & Varese, F., 28 Sep 2015, In : POLITICAL STUDIES. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9248.12227
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Shortland, A. & Varese, F., 1 Sep 2014, In : The British Journal of Criminology. 54, 5, p. 741-764 24 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azu046