Does United Nations peacekeeping protect civilians in civil war? Civilian protection is a
primary purpose of UN peacekeeping, yet there is little systematic evidence for whether …

What effect does cheap talk have on behavior in an entry-deterrence game? We shed light
on this question using incentivized laboratory experiments of the strategic interaction …

The theoretical literature on government repression has mostly taken a choice theoretic
perspective, wherein either the protest group optimally chooses a protest tactic in response …

Domestic strife and civil war frequently produce large population dislocations and refugee
flows across national boundaries. Mass refugee flows often entail negative consequences …

Civil wars have caused tremendous human suffering in the last century, and the United
Nations is often asked to send peacekeepers to stop ongoing violence. Yet despite being …

Allied nations often stop each other from going to war. Some countries even form alliances
with the specific intent of restraining another power and thereby preventing war …

A series of studies has shown that civil wars are caused not only by factors inside countries,
but also by effects operating across state borders. Whereas a first wave of quantitative …

The prevailing scholarly wisdom is that weak states, or resource-poor states, are the most
prone to civil war. Yet many weak states never experience civil war. Why then are some …

Over the years, experts–both in and outside of the military–have repeatedly stated that we
need to improve our conceptual and doctrinal thinking when it comes to military cyber …

This article takes a two-step approach to improving our understanding of how US foreign
policy signals affect the likelihood of coups in Latin America. First, a large body of qualitative …