▪ Abstract Studies of natural resource wealth and civil war have been hampered by
measurement error, endogeneity, lack of robustness, and uncertainty about causal …

This article reviews the key role that case study methods have played in the study of
international relations (IR) in the United States. Case studies in the IR subfield are not the …

An innovative and accessible textbook on multimethod and case-study research
Multimethod research has become indispensable to doing social science, and is essential to …

This study revisits the task of case selection in case study research, proposing a new
typology of strategies that is explicit, disaggregated, and relatively comprehensive. A …

Over the last decade, organized criminal violence has reached unprecedented levels and
has caused as much violent death globally as direct armed conflict. Nonetheless, the study …

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 …

This major new Handbook synthesises more than two decades of scholarly research, and
provides a comprehensive overview of the field of terrorism studies. The content of the …

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 …

Case Study Research: Principles and Practices aims to provide a general understanding of
the case study method as well as specific tools for its successful implementation. These tools …

Much of the quantitative literature on civil wars and ethnic conflict ignores the role of the
state or treats it as a mere arena for political competition among ethnic groups. Other studies …