This study analyzes the effects of US drone strikes on terrorism in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Some theories suggest that drone strikes anger…

Shortly after toppling the Baathist regime, the U.S. military contracted with a local Iraqi firm to run a major public opinion survey in Baghdad.…

Research on insurgency has been invigorated this past decade by better data, improved methods, and the urgency of understanding active engagements…

In a recent New York Times opinion piece, “Where Terrorism Research Goes Wrong,” social psychologist Anthony Biglan argues that, given the…

Are airstrikes an effective tool against insurgent organizations? Despite the question's historical and contemporary relevance, we have few…

Eleven years ago this coming month, a coalition of armed forces led by the United States moved decisively against Saddam Hussein’s forces,…

List and endorsement experiments are becoming increasingly popular among social scientists as indirect survey techniques for sensitive questions.…

We investigate the relationship between violence and economic risk preferences in Afghanistan combining: (i) a two-part experimental procedure…

The historical record of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is being lost—and with it, the opportunity to learn from our mistakes and successes. The…

How are civilian attitudes toward combatants affected by wartime victimization? Are these effects conditional on which combatant inflicted the…

How do terrorist groups control their members? Do the tools groups use to monitor their operatives and enforce discipline create security…

The Afghanistan war of the 21st century began when the global terrorist organization, al Qaeda, attacked the United States on September 11, 2001.…

Recent years have seen the United States embroiled in major counterinsurgency campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. These campaigns, of course, are…

What explains local variation in electoral manipulation in countries with ongoing internal conflict? The theory of election fraud developed in…

Current military doctrine emphasizes the importance of development spending in reducing insurgent violence. Using data from three distinct…

Terrorist groups repeatedly take actions that are ultimately politically counter-productive. Sometimes these are the result of deliberate…

Elections in developing countries commonly fail to deliver accountability because of manipulation, often involving collusion between corrupt…

Most aid spending by governments seeking to rebuild social and political order is based on an opportunity-cost theory of distracting potential…

A new research program is using the Hoover Archives to study the original Russian-language records of the Soviet Union’s long involvement in…

A central question in intrastate conflicts is how insurgents are able to mobilize supporters to participate in violent and risky activities. A…