A Military History of East Africa in the Nineteenth Century …of traditional organized violence in East Africa, as well as the analysis and organization of that data in anticipation of writing the manuscript itself. The goal has been to explore…
The World Crisis: 1635–1665 …At the same time, a worldwide wave of violence, aggression, rebellion and war toppled or threatened governments around the world. To cite just the most prominent events: in China, the…
By Right of War: The Discipline and Practice of International Law in Imperial Russia, 1868–1917 This project addresses the emergence and consolidation of the international law of war. The intellectual lineage for the law of war dates back at least to Hugo Grotius (1583–1645). But…
War and Economic Development in Vietnam and Sierra Leone …and famine crises. There is currently a large literature on the conditions that lead to the outbreak of armed violence, but the long-term economic impacts of war remain relatively understudied…
The Farm Killings …landed and their tenants was being renegotiated by a combination of cunning, wits, and violence, and that the murder was an extreme and tragic moment in this process of renegotiation….
Seeing Like a Peacebuilder: An Ethnography of International Intervention …approaches to collecting information on violence strongly impact the effectiveness of intervention efforts. A number of interveners challenge the dominant modes of thinking and acting. The publications based on this…
Sherman was Right: The Experience of AEF Soldiers in the Great War …that the violence of the Western Front broke the soldier. I was wrong. While some did psychologically succumb to the horrors of combat, the majority endured, and were proud of…
King George’s Generals: How the British Army Lost America, 1774-1781 …research supported a chapter entitled “An End to Empire? British Strategy in the American Revolution and Making Peace” in Justifying Revolution: Law, Virtue, and Violence in the American Revolution (Oklahoma: June 2018)….
When We Torture: Moral and Pragmatic Arguments For and Against Torture, and Their Effect on Public Support For Redressing Past and Preventing Future Injustice Violence can take many forms, and it can vary in scale and intensity. This research project focuses on one specific type of violence that is usually perpetrated against a relatively…
On Traumatic Modernities: Forced Migration and Nakh Cultural Memory Along Caucasus Borderlands …Asia. My conversations with local scholars in Georgia and throughout the Caucasus enable me to probe the ongoing legacies of the violence that constitutes forced migration. These findings emerge from…
