…military discipline still widely practiced here, centered around the strict supervision of inmates by warders, may have limited prisoner-on-prisoner violence. But more research is necessary here, to allow for firmer…

Petroleum in Nigeria has produced a combustible politics marked by violence. Rather than see oil-dependency as a source of predation or as a source of state military power, this research…

…no term for a martyr nor a well-developed concept of martyrdom, which is a necessary corollary to the notion of jihad as religious military activity. The term shahid that is…

…perception—shapes leaders’ willingness to use mass violence and the public’s acceptance of it.  Second, ideological constructs—what I label “founding narratives”—influence the ways in which political and military leaders devise strategies…

…A central finding that emerges concerns the critical role of competitive intervention—two-sided, simultaneous military assistance from different third party states to both government and rebel combatants—in the dynamics and intractability…

…old. The social dynamics of the “Rural Youth Industry” explain why many of these youth so internalized the ideology of Japanese nationalism that they volunteered for military service and fought…

…women, and children. Similarly, studies of police and military torturers reveal these individuals to be unremarkable except perhaps for a stronger-than-ordinary sense of duty and respect for authority. Thus it…

…is counting? I’ve been saying that for years. Metrics are very important in policing. Policing agencies are quasi-military organizations. The cops are going to do what you ask them to…

…was a sociologist who devoted his career to studying the military. Is it just a coincidence that you are a sociologist who spends a lot of time looking at paramilitary…

…folks, but not in the policing realm. A military family. And my mother was a nurse. So we always have had this ethic of service that you should be doing…