Fueling the Fires: How Corruption and Conflict Keep Each Other Burning (Photo by Prabin Ranabhat/Getty Images) “Is it possible to foster accountability and disrupt illicit economies without fueling violence?” On February 18, researchers Diana Chigas and Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church of Besa Global…
The Effect of Publicized Life Sentences, Death Sentences, and Executions on Homicide …sentences in efforts to control lethal violence. Publicized Executions: Abolitionist States. A second contribution was to test two alternative theoretical explanations for dips in homicide after a publicized execution. Publicized…
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)….
