Nuclear Complacency: A Report from Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation …which the robust scholarship, activism, and diplomacy of the past 80 years have been replaced by public indifference, political de-prioritization, and military buildup of these weapons. Read the report (PDF)…
Understanding Violence and Incarceration in Africa: Evidence from British Colonies and Postcolonial States …officials relied heavily on incarceration, detention without trial, executions, deportations, military punishments, and other modes of violent punishment, and postcolonial leaders have drawn extensively on colonial penal legislation and punitive…
Fighting and Bargaining Across Two Centuries of International Conflict …have ended through a negotiated settlement that stops conflict short of complete military victory or defeat. Nonetheless, scholarship has failed to adequately address when, why, and how belligerents choose to…
Targeted Recruitment: Explaining Why Certain Clans Join and Eschew Al-Shebab in Somalia …clans, Al-Shabaab has managed to maintain a steady flow of recruits, despite facing military and political setbacks. The research provides a comprehensive analysis of Al-Shabaab’s recruitment strategies, highlighting the complex…
Forging Informal Citizenship in the Shadow of the State: Armed Nonstate Actors and Migrant Incorporation in the Colombian and Mexican Borderlands …settlements, does not necessarily produce a higher level of security for the migrants or their property. In contrast, state policies that grant greater powers to the military and law enforcement…
HFG Welcomes its 2026 Distinguished Scholars …Response to Sexual Assault in the US Military Sam Erkiletian (Political Science, Independent scholar), Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response at the Tactical Level: Evidence from Ukraine (2022–2024) Jeffrey Fagan (Law,…
Territorial Masquerades: Violence, Paramilitaries, and Frontier State Formation in Colombia …exploration of war, paramilitary organizations, grassroots support and resistance, and drug-related violence, Ballvé argues that Urabá, rather than existing in statelessness, has actually been an intense and persistent site of…
Fear, Violence, and Restraint: Dynamics of Historical Change in the Tunisian Revolution …the variation in outcomes of mass uprisings requires shifting the explanatory focus toward endogenous, locally proximate causes. The argument has implications for the study of revolutions, authoritarian breakdown, civil-military relations,…
HFG Distinguished Scholars …Understanding Institutional Prevention and Response to Sexual Assault in the US Military Sam Erkiletian (Political Science, Independent scholar), Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response at the Tactical Level: Evidence from Ukraine…
HFG Emerging Scholars …the Military in Authoritarian Regimes Jimmy Graham (Politics, New York University), Collective Violence and Peacebuilding: Evidence from South Sudan on Approaches to Reducing Collective Violence Rebekah Jones (Political Science, University…
