Coups are more common, but civil wars more costly. As a leader, which would you rather risk facing? According to Philip Roessler, this is…
War is an inherently social process, from the mobilization of new, armed organizations, to the relational aftershocks of violence affecting…
We conduct a disaggregated empirical analysis of civil conflict at the subnational level in Africa over 1997 to 2011 using a new gridded…
New faculty member Zoe Marks on violence, contradictions, and unexpected intimacy of conflict and its aftermath.
Zoe Marks is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her research and teaching focuses on the intersections of…
For decades, fears of energy scarcity drove American energy diplomacy. The dependence of the global economy on oil, and America’s need to…
President Donald Trump’s advisers are at pains to emphasize that Friday’s speech on Iran policy was an effort to lay out a comprehensive…
More than 90 percent of Iraq's Kurds voted to declare independence last week, bringing tensions to an even higher boil across the Middle…
How do armed groups use violence to create social ties? What are the conditions under which such violence takes place? In this article, I…
The latest big news out of the Middle East is that Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has ousted the crown prince and…