The Middle Eastern Military as a Factor in Domestic and Regional Conflict and Violence: A Case Study of the Iranian Army The research project consisted of a case study of the political and social role played by the Iranian army in the recent history both of Iran itself and of the…
The Dynamics of Violence in Civil War: Evaluating the Impact of Ethnicity on Violence My goal in this project was to investigate the assumption that ethnic conflict is associated with higher levels of violence compared to other forms of conflict, such as revolutionary wars….
Political Violence, Military Conflict and Civil Unrest in Palestine: The Palestinian Police, the Fatah Tanzim and the “Al-Aqsa Intifada” 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…
Ethnic Identity, Collective Action and Conflict: An Experimental Approach A large literature shows that ethnically homogenous communities often do a better job than diverse communities of producing satisfactory schools and health care, adequate sanitation, low levels of crime, and…
Irish Religious Demography and Conflict, 1659–1926 The goal of this project was to collect and analyze historical data (official and unofficial) on the numbers of Irish Catholics and Protestants (the latter divided between Anglicans and Dissenters),…
Ethnic Violence vs. Imperial Segregations: Multinational Criminality in the Russian Imperial City as a Space of Conflict and Cooperation For over two decades, I’ve been studying a variety of topics in the history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. As I see now, all of them have…
The Diffusion of Lethal and Nonlethal Violence in Gang Networks …any gang’s past conflicts and battles. Put another way, understanding a gang’s prior pattern of conflict and violence goes far in predicting whom the gang will engage next. Such gang…
An Unexpected Peace: Understanding Resilient Order and Violence in Multi-Gang Environments Rival criminal organizations sometimes coexist peacefully in the same territory. Mexican drug cartels, known worldwide for their violent battles for turf (Molzahn et al. 2012), are not the exception. Until…
“We’re in the Danger Zone”: A Conversation with Caroline Mehl …conflict. From Trump on down to your average Twitter/X troll, I’m wondering how much blame you place at the feet of conflict entrepreneurs. Or are they more symptom than cause?…
‘A Healthy Democracy Requires Social Trust’: A Conversation with Ilana Redstone …to democracy is calling the other side an existential threat to democracy. Human beings have two ways to resolve conflict: words and violence. I think that there’s a distinction to…
