The study of religion holds great promise for the study of identity, institutional origins, the
state, and the strategies of institutional actors in comparative politics. Doctrinal differences …

Most aid spending by governments seeking to rebuild social and political order is based on
an opportunity-cost theory of distracting potential recruits. The logic is that gainfully …

Conventional wisdom portrays war zones as chaotic and anarchic. In reality, however, they
are often orderly. This work introduces a new phenomenon in the study of civil war: wartime …

The economics of religion is a relatively new field of research in economics. This survey
serves two purposes—it is backward-looking in that it traces the historical and sociological …

In times of global economic and political crises, the notion of solidarity is gaining new
currency. This book argues that a solidarity-based perspective can help us to find new ways …

Some of the most brutal and long-lasting civil wars of our time involve the rapid formation
and disintegration of alliances among warring groups, as well as fractionalization within …

We develop and test an economic theory of insurgency motivated by the informal literature
and by recent military doctrine. We model a three-way contest between violent rebels, a …

How do terrorist groups control their members? Do the tools groups use to monitor their
operatives and enforce discipline create security vulnerabilities that governments can …

This overview examines critically the post-9/11 empirical literature on terrorism. Major
contributions by both economists and political scientists are included. We focus on five main …

Revolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and
transnational movements: these forms of contentious politics combine in Charles Tilly's and …