Insurgent Fragmentation and State Attachment in the Syrian Civil War …research suggests that state and military institutions played a key role in mobilizing these militias and have subsequently acted to centralize and streamline control over them, such as by appointing…
A New Kind of War: A History of the 1946–1949 Greek Civil War …the army that had suffered considerable setbacks at the hands of the insurgents. However, government victory was not the simple product of brutish violence and overwhelming military superiority. US funds…
The Carceral State in Conflict: Between Reconciliation and Radicalization …those encounters to either encourage reconciliation or foster radicalization. Before 2000, under the paradigm of occupation, Israel operated a military carceral system alongside the civilian carceral system and assigned Palestinian…
In Ukraine and Elsewhere, Is Third-Party Diplomacy Helpful in Ending Wars? …peace quickly when the belligerents are ready to stop fighting. Amid the painful march of hostilities since then, as well as their drain on both military and political resources, the…
‘The Potential for Terrorism Is Pretty Frightening’: A Conversation with Gary LaFree …unfortunate impact of 9/11 is that it moved police much more to a sort of SWAT team mentality. And this was aided by programs that enabled the US military to…
Imagining the Next War This conference brought together members of the military and intelligence communities, academics, and think-tank researchers to consider the nature and consequences of U.S. military conflicts past, present, and future….
HFG Pembroke College Research Fellow …the Foundation’s 2025-2028 Pembroke Fellow. She is researching the impact of big data and machine learning on military conflict in the Middle East. Past HFG Pembroke Fellows 2021–2024 Surer Mohamed,…
Drugs, Violence, and National Honor: British Foreign Policy and the Opium Crisis, 1833–1840 …British cabinet turned to its military to protect opium sales and to force open China trade. Whilst the monetary aspects of the war cannot be ignored, this book argues that…
Violent Territorialities and the Cultural Politics of Belonging in West Kalimantan Indonesia …gold mines and rubber or pepper farms, to vast networks of irrigated rice fields, to production forestry zones, to watershed protection reserves, to military staging grounds, to sites of ethnic…
Kidnapping in Colombia …dealers gave a definitive stimulus to paramilitary groups as a private protection scheme against kidnapping. Third, some notorious drug lords began their criminal careers as kidnappers. Forth, drug traffickers have…
