The attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 was the result of a perception of relative
decline on the part of American conservatives and their simultaneous radicalization …

What accounts for overarching trajectories of civil wars? This article develops an account of
civil war as a social process that connects dynamics of conflict from pre-to post-war periods …

Although conflict issues–the stated goals of actors engaged in conflict–hold a privileged
position in many theoretical explanations of the occurrence, dynamics, and resolution of civil …

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 …

After years of peaceful demonstrations, the Cameroonian Anglophone conflict escalated in
2017. Since the outbreak, over 3,000 people have died and a further thousand Anglophones …

Over the last 25 years, Colombia has emerged as a highly influential case study in the civil
wars literature. This article takes stock of the English-speaking literature on civil conflict in …

This article presents the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP)“Violent Political
Protest”(VPP) data set: a new–standalone-category of organized violence, which …

The Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia explores the nature
and implications of civil society across the region, engaging systematically with both …

How can we understand change in armed conflict, both in terms of the phenomenon as a
whole, as well as within individual conflicts? This Special Issue sets a new agenda on the …

This article reviews the literature on nationalism and ethnic mobilization. I first discuss the
different strands of research in the field, highlighting three key sources of division that …