The most common image of world politics involves states negotiating, cooperating, or
sometimes fighting with one another; billiard balls in motion on a global pool table. Yet …

A crucial contemporary policy question for governments across the globe is how to cope with
international crime and terrorist networks. Many such “dark” networks—that is, networks that …

Why populations brutalized in war elect their tormentors One of the great puzzles of electoral
politics is how parties that commit mass atrocities in war often win the support of victimized …

Pro-government militias are a prominent feature of civil wars. Governments in Ukraine,
Russia, Syria, and Sudan recruit irregular forces in their armed struggle against insurgents …

Despite the scope of the threat they pose to Mexico's security, violent drug-trafficking
organizations are not well understood, and optimal strategies to combat them have not been …

Historically, insurgency is one of the most prevalent forms of armed conflict and it is likely to
remain common in the foreseeable future. Recent experiences with counterinsurgency in …

Este artículo toma el debate actual entre los enfoques centrados en el enemigo y los
centrados en la población como un punto de partida para hacer su contribución, cambiando …

This article demonstrates that there is a causal asymmetry between legitimate and
illegitimate violence in civil conflict, and advocates turning analytic attention to illegitimacy …

Since the escalation of the war in the North Caucasus in the eighteenth century, the political
map of the world has changed repeatedly and dramatically, and many major wars and …

Many voices in the US policy community have suggested that El Salvador provided a model
for US counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, based on the unsound …