Early research on wartime violence against civilians highlighted a distinction between macro-
and micro-level approaches. Macro-level approaches, grounded in the international …

" Areas of limited statehood are ubiquitous. Most states in the contemporary international
system contain areas in which states are too weak to set and enforce rules and/or lack the …

What rhetorics run throughout radical discourse, and why do some gain prominence over
others? The scholarship on radicalism largely portrays radical discourse as opposition to …

Existing literature on civil wars relies predominantly on state-and organization-level
variables to understand conflict dynamics and outcomes. In this article, we propose that …

How does foreign support for rebel groups affect rebel governance of civilians during armed
conflict? Existing studies primarily examine the local and domestic politics of rebel rule …

Under what conditions do rebel organizations control territory during civil war? How do
civilians influence the distribution of territorial control? This article introduces a civilian …

That terrorism is a “weapon of the weak” is such deeply held conventional wisdom it has
become almost a cliché.“Weak” means many different things in the literature, however, and …

A large literature has argued that domestic competition increases a militant organization's
use and severity of terrorism to differentiate their “brand” and “outbid” other organizations …

Do foreign fighters increase the prevalence of rebel-inflicted sexual violence? Evidence from
recent armed conflicts indicates that this may be the case. However, little is known regarding …

Recent work in international relations has problematized state-centric assumptions of
governance to explore variations in authority by a range of nonstate actors (eg …