…2016), which compares Chinese and Western European military history from 900 to 1900 AD. Scholars have long argued that China’s military traditions, technologies, and techniques fell behind those of the…

…impact of western military assistance; the nature and consequences of programs of weapons acquisition and the prospects for arms control; and the role played by military force, actual and potential,…

…studies the development and military capacity of insurgent groups. First, the project constructs a novel conception of military effectiveness fitting for the types of combat common in civil war, including…

…easy for U.S. citizens because of widespread amnesia about twentieth-century U.S. empire building. My project examined a notorious U.S. military training school for Latin Americans—the School of the Americas (SOA)—and…

…the historical evolution of the military systems of a wide range of East African societies from about the 1770s to the 1890s, and, in the process, to propose a major…

This research project was originally undertaken with the aim of examining the roles played by the military and civilian police forces of the Palestinian Authority, and the popular militias (in…

…for joining paramilitary groups, these differences were by no means nation-specific. The activists involved in paramilitary activities in all three countries shared a determination to use ultraviolence in order to…

…distribution and accessibility of military bases, for example. Military bases tend to be concentrated in the Southeast, and they’re very hard to get onto because of security concerns. This has…

…laws of war interpreted and applied by military lawyers to aerial targeting operations carried out by the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Israeli military in Gaza. Drawing…

…and military assistance of the government of Sudan. Oil exploration activities in Nuer and Dinka regions of the Western Upper Nile, moreover, continued to gain momentum, with an estimated 174,000…