Early research on wartime violence against civilians highlighted a distinction between macro-
and micro-level approaches. Macro-level approaches, grounded in the international …

Political violence is rising in the United States, with Republicans and Democrats divided
along racial and ethnic lines that spurred massive bloodshed and democratic collapse …

Research on insurgency has been invigorated during this past decade by better data,
improved methods, and the urgency of understanding active engagements in Iraq and …

Eliciting honest answers to sensitive questions is frustrated if subjects withhold the truth for
fear that others will judge or punish them. The resulting bias is commonly referred to as …

In Making and Unmaking Nations, Scott Straus seeks to explain why and how genocide
takes place—and, perhaps more important, how it has been avoided in places where it may …

This study uses discontinuities in US strategies employed during the Vietnam War to
estimate their causal impacts. It identifies the effects of bombing by exploiting rounding …

Media coverage of civil wars often focuses on the most gruesome atrocities and the most
extreme conflicts, which might lead one to think that all civil wars involve massive violence …

Political scientists designing experiments often face the question of how abstract or detailed
their experimental stimuli should be. Typically, this question is framed in terms of trade‐offs …

Vladimir Putin has managed to achieve strikingly high public approval ratings throughout his
time as president and prime minister of Russia. But is his popularity real, or are respondents …

An award-winning military historian, professor, and political adviser delivers the definitive
story of warfare in all its guises and applications, showing what has driven and continues to …