In the years since the onset of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement—and especially since the Ferguson uprising—scholars have tried to…
Prosecutions are important, but not as the main policy lever for deterrence.
Over the past two years, and in collaboration with Dr. Erica Chenoweth and Dr. Zoe Marks of Harvard University, USIP has been collecting…
Collective vigilantism, group violence to punish perceived offenses to a community, is both global and common in the contemporary world. It…
Nonviolent action (NVA) campaigns are more frequent now than ever before, yet we know comparatively little about how the demographic…
Recent world events, such as the rise of hypermasculine authoritarian leaders, have shown the importance of both sex and gender for…
The pantheon of autocratic leaders includes a great many sexists, from Napoleon Bonaparte, who decriminalized the murder of unfaithful…
This article reviews the remarkable growth in empirical literature in political science on wartime sexual violence against civilians,…
What are the consequences of women dying in combat? We study how women fighting on the frontlines of the military affects public attitudes…