Kidnapping in Colombia …was practiced in rural areas by some late “bandoleros” of the political violence period in the 1950s. On the other hand, urban kidnapping of foreigners—diplomats and CEOs—was imported from groups…
Hitler’s Prisons: Prisons and Penal Policies in Germany, 1900–1945 …institutions played an indispensable part in the terror of the Third Reich, incarcerating many hundreds of thousands of men and women: common criminals, political opponents, “racial aliens,” and other social…
Violence Against Women and Social Changes in Postcommunist Societies …survey findings showed that global economic and political changes and war produce micro level changes, i.e., changes in everyday life and gender, generational, and ethnic structures/identities. Privatization and a market…
White Terror: Paramilitary Violence in Interwar Central Europe …this field and to test the wider methodological implications of my hypothesis for our understanding of political violence more generally. I undertook several extended trips to various Central European archives…
Violent Street Groups and Organized Crime in Russia …group transformation and change in the economic and political climate? To answer these questions, I, together with my Russian collaborators, conducted in-depth interviews and focus groups with young people who…
Controlling Violence in Wartime? Power Centralization and Economization of Republican Violence in the Spanish Civil War …role was not always univocal, and by controlling violence, it did not merely intend to reduce the number of massacres, but also to marginalize and remove other political actors from…
Klan Violence/Local Violence in Reconstruction-Era Union County: A Social Network Analysis …did work to restore the social, political, and economic forms of the antebellum period, contemporary rural white Southerners often experienced the Klan as a modernizing process through which they could…
From Coltan to Cattle: Unearthing Violence in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo …My paper published in 2013 entitled “Beyond Minerals” in the Review of African Political Economy highlights the findings from these earlier investigations. The paper illustrates the diversity of resources drawn upon by…
The Chinese Must Go: The Violent Birth of American Border Control …more recognized forms of political power. This racial violence terrorized local populations, shaped local politics, and at times, advanced a national agenda. In the mid-nineteenth century, this political violence, and…
When Comrades Go to War: Post-Liberation Movements, Elite Politics and the Internal Dynamics of Africa’s Great War …of Julius Nyerere, the godfather of Africa’s liberation movements: they put the gun before the unglamorous but essential task of building the domestic and regional political institutions and organizational structures…
