Ordinary Soldiers? A Case Study of the Nazi-Soviet War of Annihilation …summary execution of Red Army political commissars and the shooting of Red Army prisoners of war by the division. Additionally, the division’s treatment of prisoners of war, both in times…
Hurt Sentiments and Blasphemy in South Asia …In this book project, I cross political and territorial boundaries to bring together cases of censorship that allegedly “hurt sentiments” of individuals and religious communities. The landmark lawsuits that I…
Police Special Operations and Armed Criminal Groups in Rio de Janeiro The territorial control exerted by drug-trafficking “factions” and racketeering groups called “milícias” over poor neighborhoods has been a crucial public problem in the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil….
In Practice Landing Page …diplomacy on conflicts like the war in Ukraine, the ways emerging diseases, including COVID-19 and avian flu, may bring both illness and violence, and how political violence can fuel migration….
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The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation …which the robust scholarship, activism, and diplomacy of the past 80 years have been replaced by public indifference, political de-prioritization, and military buildup of these weapons.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)…
“Twas Always Known as the Bloody Frontier”: Rumors, Memories, and Bosnian Identity in the Migrant Crisis …success as a platform to try to pivot into political positions, though they were largely unsuccessful. I sought to understand the crisis from the resident perspective; to contextualize the historical,…
Valuable Resources: Women, Conflict, and Modern Mining in Rwanda …and physical violence against women in extractive industries. Through feminist political ecology’s intersectionality framework, the study asked how cooperatives might improve women’s outcomes: financial gains, gender violence reduction, and legal…
Murder by Structure: How Street Gangs Built the Great American City …politicos, the police, and poverty, on the other. This is a story of how white gangs wove their own networks into the political and economic fabric of the city and,…
Fueling the Fires: How Corruption and Conflict Keep Each Other Burning …entrenched feature of political economies and a major obstacle to building a lasting peace once war ends. The talk was based on their HFG Research and Policy in Brief report,…
Territorial Masquerades: Violence, Paramilitaries, and Frontier State Formation in Colombia …than a simple case of Hobbesian political disorder. Ballvé argues that Urabá, rather than existing in statelessness, has actually been an intense and persistent site of state-building projects. Through an…
