Shoot the State: Guns, Freedom, and Domination in the Americas, 1774-1934 …made in quantity only in a few cities in the eastern United States. That meant that everyone in the hemisphere looking to force or resist a change in relations of…
The Peaceful Century: War in Twentieth-Century Latin America Blood and Debt analyzed a double empirical puzzle. Why did the Latin American state fail to develop beyond its limited organizational capacity, and why did international war occur so infrequently…
When We Torture: Moral and Pragmatic Arguments For and Against Torture, and Their Effect on Public Support For Redressing Past and Preventing Future Injustice …to the moral and good in human nature may be worthwhile and effective after all, and may help strengthen the normative power of international humanitarian law. Broadly speaking, arguments against…
“It’s Time to Be Very Afraid”: A Conversation with Peter Coleman …we see from international conflicts over a 200-year period is that something like 95 percent of protracted international conflicts end within ten years of some kind of political shock. COVID…
‘There Are Very Few Democracies That Are as Polarized as We Are Today’: A Conversation with Jennifer McCoy …a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace who has been studying democracy, both in the US and in other countries for more than three decades, there is…
“Tensions Are Very High”: Ahead of Côte d’Ivoire’s Controversial Presidential Election, Peace and Reconciliation Remain Unfinished …history of contested elections turning bloody and politicians mobilizing voters along ethnic lines, the stakes could not be higher, says Francis Abugbilla, an international studies lecturer at the University of…
Reluctance to Back Down Is No Reason to Fight …broader conflict threatens to engulf the Middle East and beyond as third-party countries must decide how to respond. This latest war contributes to an already tense international security landscape marked…
Carnegie Council and HFG Launch Nuclear Ethics and Security Fellowship Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs is launching the inaugural Harry Frank Guggenheim Nuclear Ethics and Security Fellowship. Eighty years after the beginning of the Cold War, the world again…
Violence Against Women and Social Changes in Postcommunist Societies …based on the use of intergenerational and historical dimensions, I analyze them in relation to broader structural changes in their countries. I explore in particular the dynamic relations between the…
