Toward a Transnational History of the Origins of World War I …begins with the proposition that a series of transnational forces (including socialism, pacifism, and international diplomacy) mitigated against nationalism as a cause of war. While this study does not deny…
Entertaining, Informing, Discussing: How do Media Spread Messages of Peace and Violence? We test the causal effects of a democracy promotion radio intervention launched by an international nongovernmental organization (INGO) in South Sudan. The serial radio episodes addressed topics that are relatively…
Armed Politics and the State in Post-Colonial Asia The political relationships between governments and armed groups differ dramatically. Sometimes they are locked in intense conflict, in other contexts they cut live-and-let-live deals, and in yet others they cooperate…
Troubled Peace: Explaining Political Violence in Post-Conflict Settings …by providing a basis for more suited data collecting strategies and more tailored intervention policies in post-conflict settings, with the ultimate goal of increasing international peacebuilding and conflict prevention capacity….
Organization and Community: The Determinants of Insurgent Military Effectiveness The United States and other members of the international community have lost thousands of lives and expended significant resources confronting insurgent organizations across the world. Strikingly, however, there has been…
An Unexpected Peace: Understanding Resilient Order and Violence in Multi-Gang Environments …as evidence that enforcement operations in economically (or politically) valuable territories for criminal operations are a trigger for violence. Other international cases of peace among criminal organizations follow similar patterns….
On Traumatic Modernities: Forced Migration and Nakh Cultural Memory Along Caucasus Borderlands My research for “On Traumatic Modernities,” carried out mostly in the Caucasus, yielded several new insights as well as concrete outputs. My findings include the following: 1. Migration narratives from…
At the Crossroads …international symbol of chaos and disorder, with many observers concluding that the city had become “ungovernable.” That all changed in the early 1990s. Violent crime in New York City plummeted,…
“Social Disruptions Reveal Who We Are”: A Conversation with Jeffrey Butts Dr. Jeffrey A. Butts New York City is at a crossroads moment. In the 1970s and 1980s, New York City was an international symbol of chaos and disorder, with many…
Surer Mohamed Named 2021 Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Fellow at Pembroke College Cambridge …Ms. Mohamed, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Politics and International Studies at Queens’ College Cambridge, is studying post-conflict urban reconstruction and conflict-related property disputes in Mogadishu, Somalia. The Harry Frank…
