The Militarization of Nuer and Dinka Community Life: A Comparative Field Study of the Transformative Impact of Sudan’s Unresolved War …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…
Troubled Peace: Explaining Political Violence in Post-Conflict Settings …after the hostilities have officially ended. They do so to convert their military advantage into political dominance. The winners cleanse the territories under their control as a way to consolidate…
The Peaceful Century: War in Twentieth-Century Latin America …development are found in the conditions under which the countries achieved independence. We also need to consider other factors, however, such as Latin America’s actual military experience, the divisions within…
Sophia Goodfriend Named 2025 Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Fellow at Pembroke College Cambridge …military conflict in the Middle East. Outside of academia, she is an independent researcher with civil society organizations in the region and a freelance journalist. The Harry Frank Guggenheim Research…
Reluctance to Back Down Is No Reason to Fight …even millions?” Leaders, of course, have a range of factors to consider when deciding, in the face of a perceived military challenge, whether to engage in violent conflict or to…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholars …States and Canada From the Mid-Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century Tanisha Fazal (Political Science and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame), Military Medicine and the Changing Costs of War Anthony…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholars …Market in Medellín, Colombia Haley Allen DeMarco (Political Science, Yale University), Repressing the Resistance: The Police and the Military in Authoritarian Regimes Jimmy Graham (Politics, New York University), Collective Violence…
Sexual Justice in the American Civil War The Sexual Justice in the American Civil War Project is the first comprehensive study of the response of the Union military to allegations of sexual assault against women and girls…
“Soldiers in Exile”: Dr. Godfrey Maringira …and the 2017 military coup in Zimbabwe, the book presents and discusses the politicized nature of the military in post-independence Zimbabwe, and the political consequences of service in a state…
How Emerging Diseases Can Spread Conflict and Violence …involved in fighting civil wars against rebels decreased their military efforts by an average reduction of as much as 120 percent, according to one statistical model. Rebel groups, by contrast,…