Rebecca Dudley | Vive la Résistance: The Diffusion of Violent Resistance in Nazi-Occupied France

During much of World War II, France was under Nazi control through a collaborationist Vichy regime. A French resistance emerged that engaged in guerrilla warfare against the German occupation. This talk examines the context of French resistance and highlights patterns of diffusion in the violence used against the Nazi regime.
Rebecca Dudley is an assistant professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. She received her BA in International Relations and French Studies from BYU and her MA and PhD from Duke University in Political Science, with an emphasis in security and conflict. Her research focuses on conflict processes, conflict resolution, and foreign policy. She is currently a Kennedy Center Faculty Research Fellow and was previously a Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow at the Notre Dame International Security Center.
Part of the Kennedy Center's winter 2024 lecture series, "Authoritarianism and Its Discontents."