…on the continent? I demonstrate how the absence of both institutional authority and politically organized violence were bound in a circular, causal relationship. The origins of this unique pattern of…

…its history. The crisis brought with it the succession of five different presidents in a week, and an extremely fragile political system. In addition, it provoked a serious increase in…

…matter what, will not stop their involvement in political violence until they achieve the political goal they seek. From the 1920s, when the Irish Republican Army forced the British to…

…established political actors, I argue, count in the making of collective violence and in routine political life. The research scrutinizes the gray zone where the actions and networks of both…

…casts a light on the oppression of soldiers by commanders who sought to repress and control the political thinking of their men. By contextualizing the political, economic and material conditions…

…Boy’: How Social Media Facilitates Political Intimidation and Violence, who discussed the report and steps that social media companies can take to reduce their contribution to increasing levels of political…

…with an increase ranging from 30% to 55%. Rebel Attacks and Political Militias: The relationship between zoonotic outbreaks on the one hand, and rebel attacks and political militia conflicts on…

My dissertation examines the use of torture by the specialized urban intelligence operations units that reshaped the increasingly violent clash between two political projects—one revolutionary and evidently outmatched, the other…

…war violence. The research findings were published in Comparative Political Studies (Laitin 2001) as “Secessionist Rebellion in the Former Soviet Union.” The research materials were also the basis for a…