This article reviews the literature on civil war. We focus on the most recent period of
scholarly activity, beginning in the early 2000s when the publication of prominent …

This paper reviews the booming literature on civil war. It presents the major theoretical
perspectives and key empirical results on the determinants of civil war. The paper identifies …

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 …

How important is ideology for the analysis of civil war? In contrast to literature that neglects
ideology in its emphasis on structural variables or situational incentives, this article argues …

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 …

Why do some armed groups commit massive wartime rape, whereas others never do? Using
an original dataset, I describe the substantial variation in rape by armed actors during recent …

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 …

Contemporary research on civil war has largely dismissed the role of political and economic
grievances, focusing instead on opportunities for conflict. However, these strong claims rest …

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 …

Most nations have experienced an internal armed conflict since 1960. Yet while civil war is
central to many nations' development, it has stood at the periphery of economics research …