Climate change threatens core dimensions of human security, including economic
prosperity, food availability, and societal stability. In recent years, war-torn regions such as …

The issue of environmental pollution has been recognized as a typical example of an
anthropogenic activity that constitutes a global challenge coupled with the influence of …

In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and
behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to …

There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While
that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities …

International peacebuilding is experiencing a pragmatic turn. The era of liberal idealism is
waning, and in its place new approaches to peacebuilding are emerging. This article …

This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to
reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones …

Countries that are rich in petroleum have less democracy, less economic stability, and more
frequent civil wars than countries without oil. What explains this oil curse? And can it be …

International Organizations as Orchestrators reveals how IOs leverage their limited authority
and resources to increase their effectiveness, power, and autonomy from states …

" Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest
barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being …

We show that contemporary differences in political attitudes across counties in the American
South in part trace their origins to slavery's prevalence more than 150 years ago. Whites …