How do international sports events shape repression in authoritarian host countries?
International tournaments promise unique gains in political prestige through global media …

Gross domestic product (GDP), GDP per capita, and population are central to the study of
politics and economics broadly, and conflict processes in particular. Despite the prominence …

What explains the great variation in the adoption, timing, and duration of government
policies made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic? In this article, we explore whether …

Where is the human rights discourse most resonant? We use aggregated cross-national
Google search data to test two divergent accounts of why human rights appeal to some …

How do post-conflict societies contain large-scale criminal violence when state security
forces that committed atrocities during a civil war remain unpunished and become key …

Research on state repression generally focuses on what states do to populations within their
own borders. However, recently scholars working at the intersection of comparative politics …

How does witnessing regime atrocities influence the political attitudes of bystanders? We
argue that observing regime violence against innocent civilians triggers psychological …

Territorial control is a central variable for civil war research–yet, we lack sufficiently detailed
data to capture subnational dynamics and offer cross-country coverage. This article …

Conflict-related sexual violence is an international security problem and is sometimes used
as a weapon of war. It is also a complex and hard-to-observe phenomenon, constituting …

Domestic public preferences often shape leaders' decisions to comply with international
legal rulings. Human rights scholars usually assume these preferences favor enforcement …