Seventeen million people have died in civil wars and rebel violence has disrupted the lives
of millions more. In a fascinating contribution to the active literature on civil wars, this book …

Settlements to civil conflict, which are notably difficult to secure, sometimes contain clauses
enabling the combatant sides to participate as political parties in post-conflict elections. In …

Around the world, established parties are weakening, and new parties are failing to take
root. In many cases, outsiders have risen and filled the void, posing a threat to democracy …

Are violent strategies of insurgency and counterinsurgency ineffective? Recent academic
and policy research contends that violence, whether targeted or indiscriminate and whether …

In their examination of party-voter linkages in twelve Latin American democracies, Kitschelt
et al.(2010) find evidence of programmatic political competition in only two countries: Chile …

What factors explained party system formation in the post-conflict countries of El Salvador,
Guatemala, and Nicaragua? The answer to this question is not immediately obvious as the …

This dissertation examines the emergence, survival, performance, and national impact of
rebel parties following negotiated settlements. Building on a growing literature examining …

A major challenge in develo** effective anti-cancer agents is to identify tumorspecific
properties that are sufficiently unique to achieve eradication of malignant cells with minimal …

This dissertation consists of three related papers on terrorism. The first paper looks at the
problem of passive state sponsorship of terrorism, such as states that host (but do not …