Abstract Purpose of Review An important question regarding rapid climate change concerns
its likely effects on violence. Rapid climate change is likely to produce sociological, political …

Neoclassical economic theories of violent conflict have proliferated in recent years and, with
their application to contemporary wars, have influenced donors and policy makers. This …

From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy
across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political …

Climate change is increasingly been called a 'security'problem, and there has been
speculation that climate change may increase the risk of violent conflict. This paper …

Drawing on econometric evidence and in-depth studies of West Africa, Latin America and
Southeast Asia, this book explores how horizontal inequalities-ethnic, religious or racial-are …

This paper provides a new dataset of regional income inequalities within countries based on
satellite nighttime light data. First, we empirically study the relationship between luminosity …

Recent large-N studies of civil war conclude that inequality does not increase the risk of
violent conflict. This article argues that such conclusions may be premature because these …

Since the end of the Cold War, more than 20 major peace operations have been deployed to
countries emerging from internal conflicts. This book argues that international efforts to …

The paper reviews the ways that human security has been defined, provides a working
definition and shows how this can form the basis of operational responses by many different …

“Civil War Is Not A Stupid Thing” is a very critical book of the simplistic conventional wisdom
about violence which suggests that contemporary violent conflicts are apolitical and similar …