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Data

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Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State (External Data Repositories)

Geography

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B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (External Data Repositories)

Infrastructure

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B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (External Data Repositories)
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From cell phones to conflict? Reflections on the emerging ICT–political conflict research agenda (Readings)

Violence

ESOC Papers
Indian State Counterinsurgency Policies: Brief Historical Summaries (Policy Papers)
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B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (External Data Repositories)
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From cell phones to conflict? Reflections on the emerging ICT–political conflict research agenda (Readings)
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Global Terrorism Database (External Data Repositories)
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Process Tracing, Causal Inference, and Civil War (Readings)
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RAND Database of Worldwide Terrorism Incidents (External Data Repositories)
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The Effect of State Killing of Civilians on Anti-State Violence: A Case Study of Syria (Readings)
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Why Armies Break: Explaining Mass Desertion in Conventional War (Readings)

ESOC Papers

Publications

Improving Electoral Integrity with Information and Communications Technology.
An Empirical Validation Study of Popular Survey Methodologies for Sensitive Questions
Building connections: Political corruption and road construction in India
Building connections: Political corruption and road construction in India
Communication networks and the transnational spread of ethnic conflict
Communication, Technology and Political Conflict: Introduction to the Special Issue
Coordination and Security: How Mobile Communications Affect Insurgency
Does Decapitation Work? Assessing the Effectiveness of Leadership Targeting in Counterinsurgency Campaigns
Does lineage matter? A study of ancestral influence on educational attainment in Korea
Governance Delegation Agreements: Shared Sovereignty as a Substitute for Limited Statehood
High resolution population estimates from telecommunications data
Horizontal Inequalities and Ethnonationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison
Is this Paper Dangerous? Balancing Secrecy and Openness in Counterterrorism
Land and Rebellion: Lessons for Counter-insurgency
Negotiating with Rebels: The Effect of Rebel Service Provision on Conflict Negotiations
Organizing for Resistance: How Group Structure Impacts the Character of Violence
Pooling Risk Among Countries
Reducing Uncertainty: Information Analysis for Comparative Case Studies
Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods: Testing the Club Model
Religious Extremism: The Good, the Bad, and the Deadly
Representative Surveys in Insecure Environments A Case Study of Mogadishu, Somalia
State Strategies in Multi-Ethnic Territories: Explaining Variation in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc
Terrorist Decision-Making: Insights from Economics and Political Science
The Effects of Temperature on Political Violence: Global Evidence at the Subnational Level
The Empiricist's Insurgency
The white-man effect: How foreigner presence affects behavior in experiments
Tribal heterogeneity and the allocation of publicly provided goods: Evidence from Yemen
Understanding the Daesh Economy
Unequal We Fight: Between- and Within-Group Inequality and Ethnic Civil War
Violence “from above” or “from below”? The Role of Ethnicity in Bosnia’s Civil War
Violent Order: Understanding Rebel Governance Through Liberia's Civil War
Votes and violence: Pursuing terrorism while navigating politics
War, Collaboration, and Endogenous Ethnic Polarization: The Path to Ethnic Cleansing
Warfare, political identities, and displacement in Spain and Colombia
Why Do Insurgencies Fail? Causes and Effects, Governance and Military Force in Counterinsurgency Strategies

Working Papers

A New Resource Curse: How Externalities and Governance Shape Social Conflict
Cohesive Institutions and Political Violence
Concession Stands: How Foreign Investment Incites Protest in Africa
Dangerously Informed: Protestant Missions, Information, and Pre-Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
Displaced Loyalties: The Effects of Indiscriminate Violence on Attitudes Among Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Do Museums Promote Reconciliation? A Field Experiment on Transitional Justice
Foreign Aid and Counterinsurgency Policy: Lessons from Land Reform
Hard Traveling: Commuting Costs and Urban Unemployment with Deficient Labor Demand
Historical Group Divergence and Cultural Persistence: Evidence from the Neolithic Revolution
Historical Underpinnings of Institutions: Evidence from the Neolithic Revolution
How persistent is armed conflict?
Local Government Proliferation, Diversity, and Conflict
Reading Between the Lines: Prediction of Political Violence Using Newspaper Text
Rebel Predation: Remotely Sensed Evidence from Liberia
Scalable Information and Communications Technology Reduces Electoral Fraud in Fragile Democracies
Technical Appendix to “Introduction: Principals, Agents, and Indirect Foreign Policies”
Terrorizing Democrats: Political Institutions and Terrorists’ Targeting Decisions
The Geography of Dictatorship and Support for Democracy
Trickle-Down Ethnic Politics: Drunk and Absent in the Kenya Police Force (1957-1970)

News

Press Articles

Feature: Experts Discuss the Political Economy of Conflict Spaces at Annual Conference
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Press Release: Private Sector Can Grow Despite Violent Conflict, Princeton Study Shows
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Woodrow Wilson School
The Counterinsurgency Debate
Author(s): Andrew C. Shaver
The National Interest, 29th April 2014

Other Publications

2019 ESOC Annual Meeting Agenda
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Private Sector Development in Conflict Affected States: A Report to the UK Department for International Development
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Trends in Online Foreign Influence Efforts
Author(s): Diego A. Martin, Jacob N. Shapiro
ESOC Publications, 2019

Op-eds

America Can’t Do Much About ISIS
Author(s): Jacob N. Shapiro, Stephen Biddle
The Atlantic, April 20th 2016
Catching China by the Belt (and Road)
Author(s): Ethan B. Kapstein, Jacob N. Shapiro
Foreign Policy, 2019
China is fueling a new ‘resource curse’ — and riots around the world
Author(s): Renard Sexton (2018-2019)
The Washington Post, Monkey Cage, April 25 2018
How We Can Kill Terrorism With Kindness
Author(s): Jacob N. Shapiro
The Time, January 5th 2017
Islamic State's New Strategy Is Suicidal
Author(s): Eli Berman, Jacob N. Shapiro
Bloomberg View, December 2nd 2015
Solving the Afghanistan Puzzle
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Hoover Digest, 2010 (4).
The Flawed Logic of Trump's Executive Order: How Not to Fight Terrorism
Author(s): Jacob N. Shapiro
Foreign Affairs, Monday January 30th, 2017
The Problem With Vows to 'Defeat' the Islamic State: What happens after Raqqa falls?
Author(s): Jacob N. Shapiro, Stephen Biddle
The Atlantic, 08/21/2016
The Wrong Way to Stop Terrorism: What the Data Show About Attacks and Immigration
Author(s): David A. Lake
Foreign Affairs, Wednesday February 1st, 2017

Blogs

Engaging Overseas: Lessons for Afghanistan and Beyond
Author(s): Eli Berman, Jacob N. Shapiro
The Owl in the Olive Tree, 2019
Here’s why we can only contain the Islamic State, not bomb it back to the Stone Age
Author(s): Jacob N. Shapiro, Stephen Biddle
The Monkey Cage Blog at The Washington Post, December 1, 2015