Conflict and cooperation do not result from isolated individual actions. In settings such as
insurgency, interstate conflict, protest mobilization, and informal governance, actors are …

Scholars have spent decades investigating various sources of rebellion, from societal and
institutional explanations to individual motivations to take up arms against one's …

In many countries, police are both guardians of public safety and the primary instruments of
state repression. Used to quell dissent, excessive police action can drive further collective …

Active research on a wide range of political contexts centers on ethnicity's role in collective
action. Many theories posit that information flows more easily in ethnically homogeneous …

Under what conditions do rebel organizations control territory during civil war? How do
civilians influence the distribution of territorial control? This article introduces a civilian …

Weak state capacity is one of the most important explanations of civil conflict. Yet, current
conceptualizations of state capacity typically focus only on the state while ignoring the …

Following the large-scale 2015–2016 migration crisis that shook Europe, deploying big data
and social media harvesting methods became gradually popular in mass forced migration …

There is an extensive body of literature examining how rebel groups recruit civilians. Much
of this scholarly work focuses on the role of material and ideological appeals in mobilizing …

The emphasis in recent decades on weak state capacity as an explanation of civil war
detracts from an important fact: some of the deadliest and most protracted rebellions since …

Ethnic groups are thought to be particularly good at enforcing cooperative behavior, in part
because social networks among coethnics are favorable to peer sanctioning schemes …