Post-2003 civil wars are different from previous civil wars in three striking ways. First, most of
them are situated in Muslim-majority countries. Second, most of the rebel groups fighting …

The US claim that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was a necessary component of the
war on terror has been roundly criticized in both popular and scholarly discourse, while …

Rape is common during wartime, but even within the context of the same war, some armed
groups perpetrate rape on a massive scale while others never do. In Rape during Civil War …

At the time, there was no single work that addressed this increasingly vexatious issue of
domestic and international security in an authoritative, yet accessible, way. My intention had …

This paper investigates the ways in which terrorism is linked to education and poverty using
data newly culled from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) documentary sources …

This study uses rainfall variation to estimate the impact of income shocks on murder in rural
Tanzania. Extreme rainfall (drought or flood) leads to a large increase in the murder of …

Can rational models, once theological explanations are discredited, explain why certain
radical religious rebels are so successful in perpetrating suicide attacks? The fundamental …

This article argues that social welfare policies may reduce international and domestic
terrorism. Social policies likely affect terrorism in offsetting ways but, on balance, should …

This paper challenges conventional views of violent religious extremism, particularly those
that emphasize militant theology. We offer an alternative analysis that helps explain the …

The number of radical Islamist groups fighting in civil wars in Muslim countries has steadily
grown over the last twenty years, with such groups outlasting and outperforming more …