Ways of War: Toward a Global Military History …the least warlike period in its millennia-long history. (There were, of course, many wars and rebellions, so we are speaking relatively, comparing the incidence of conflict to other periods in…
“Why We Fight”: Dr. Chris Blattman Dr. Chris Blattman is the author of Why We Fight: The Roots of War and Paths to Peace and Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of…
“Weapons of War: Examining Gender-Based Violence in Conflict Zones” …to illuminate the causes, manifestations, and responses to violence in areas such as war, crime, terrorism, intimate relationships, climate instability, and political extremism. Watch Panel II: “Reckoning with Intimate-Partner Violence…
“It’s Time to Be Very Afraid”: A Conversation with Peter Coleman …war because Angola and Mozambique had just got independence, and they immediately broke into civil war. And so Botswana thought, “What do we do?” One of the things that they…
‘Political Polarization Has Become Almost a Form of Entertainment’: A Conversation with Clionadh Raleigh …After World War II, we saw a distinct rise in civil wars. Some of those were wars of independence, of course, in the 1950s and ’60s. And then there were…
Drugs, Violence, and National Honor: British Foreign Policy and the Opium Crisis, 1833–1840 …wage a drug war, however, made the government vulnerable to charges of immorality, creating the need to justify the war by claiming it was acting to protect British national honor….
A Sea of Blood and Tears: Ethnicity, Identity and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Volhynia, Ukraine 1941-44 …was one of the most violent regions during World War II in all of Eastern Europe, as it was home to Soviet partisan warfare, a Ukrainian nationalist uprising, brutal Nazi…
King George’s Generals: How the British Army Lost America, 1774-1781 …that of the United States today. Its army had significant experience with irregular warfare from the Seven Years’ War and Jacobite Rebellions, along with conventional operations against comparable opponents. But…
Fighting and Bargaining Across Two Centuries of International Conflict …hundred wars. The battle data help challenge assumptions held by many scholars and practitioners that it “cannot hurt” for third-party actors and institutions to promote diplomacy during war, and that…
The World Crisis: 1635–1665 …At the same time, a worldwide wave of violence, aggression, rebellion and war toppled or threatened governments around the world. To cite just the most prominent events: in China, the…
