…on Inciting Violence in Post-Uprising Tunisia Robert Zeinstra (History, Princeton University), Bush War: Environmental Reckonings of Zimbabwe’s Liberation War 2018 Adèle Blazquez (Social Anthropology, École des Hautes Études en Sciences…

…from interviews with 127 subjects and extensive archival research from more than 16 months of fieldwork, I find strong evidence supporting the theory. Civil war can lead to state-building in…

My research is about violence after war. Contrary to received wisdom, violent societies are not a natural outcome of war. Violence is not ubiquitous in post-war countries. It does not…

…Republicans. How real is the threat that polarization leads to violence in the real world?  There’s a difference between political violence and civil war. I don’t think civil war is…

This project explores two interrelated puzzles about external intervention and internal war. The first asks why rebels, governments, and third-party interveners often continue to invest in costly and protracted conflicts…

…by the law. My book project is a comparative study of the implementation of this international norm in post-war states in Africa. I draw on over 300 interviews conducted in…

…First and Second World Wars. In doing so, it sheds light on the evolution of the radical political left in Central Europe and the various ways that leftist intellectuals understood…

…commanders to study how Syrian armed groups had united and splintered since the onset of the war.  Syria’s civil war began in 2011 following a government crackdown on popular protests…

The main aim of the survey was to examine the ways in which social changes in postcommunist and war-affected societies influence the vulnerability of women to violence (domestic violence and…