‘Stories about the Way the Nation Is Organized Are Dividing Us’: A Conversation with Richard Slotkin …one. The Civil War, and the various ways of interpreting it, are added to the mix because the Civil War tests the question whether the nation can continue, and if…
In Ukraine and Elsewhere, Is Third-Party Diplomacy Helpful in Ending Wars? …outcome. With support from The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Min collected daily-level data on battles and negotiations from ninety-two interstate wars between 1823 and 2003 to gauge the impact of…
The White Power Movement at War on Democracy …took form in the 1980s but has older historical roots. In this HFG Research and Policy in Brief, The White Power Movement at War on Democracy, University of Chicago historian…
The Peaceful Century: War in Twentieth-Century Latin America Blood and Debt analyzed a double empirical puzzle. Why did the Latin American state fail to develop beyond its limited organizational capacity, and why did international war occur so infrequently…
Killing Campaigns: The Origins and Dynamics of Mass Violence in Africa …exterminatory and civil war violence. The intensity of war—specifically threat perception—shapes leaders’ willingness to use mass violence and the public’s acceptance of it. The Ivoirian crisis, as well as my…
Collective Crimes in Times of War: Explaining Local Violence Against Civilians in Croatia …against civilians occurred by examining the sources of the local variation in the level and type of violence in the war in Croatia that lasted from 1991 to 1995. This…
“None of Us Dared Say Anything”: Mass Killing in a Bosnian Community During World War II and the Postwar Culture of Silence …provides a powerful means through which to rethink fundamental assumptions about the interrelationships among ethnicity, nationalism, and violence, both during World War II and more broadly. Local-level analysis revealed how…
Some Things Psychologists Think They Know About Aggression and Violence …killer. In a century of two world wars and many smaller ones, including civil wars, about 40 million men have died in uniform. But governments also kill non-combatants, and the…
‘A Diffused Climate of Threats and Intimidation’: A Conversation with Daniel Stid …hollowing out of American civil society? What role have foundations and nonprofits played in fueling polarization? Are we heading toward a new civil war? These are just a few of…
A Military History of East Africa in the Nineteenth Century …conflict took the form of what I am now terming “raiding war” (in some ways roughly equivalent to what used to be termed “primitive war”), as opposed to what I…
