Based on extensive archival research this book situates the Irish civil war in the general
process of decolonization in the twentieth century, and explains why divisions over the …

Following the protest movements and radicalism of the late sixties, many affluent countries
experienced lethal revolutionary terrorism. Groups like the Red Brigades in Italy and the Red …

This book offers a new understanding of the nature of power-seeking insurgent groups by
empirically examining the use of violence by Hamas in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict …

In 2003, American policymakers linked the democratization of Iraq with greater peace,
democracy, and prosperity in the Middle East. We elaborate this regional-level policy …

The comparative study of civil war has recently gone through a “structural turn,” towards
large-n quantitative studies that explain the variation in the incidence of civil wars in terms of …

Theories connecting meritocracy and democratic stability are heavily understudied, and
there are few attempts to empirically disentangle the potential mechanisms. This article …

World War to the 1916 Rising and beyond. It has also led to important investigations of the
economic, social, political and cultural roots of conflicts surrounding questions of national …

For nearly a decade I have devoted my intellectual capacity to unravel what famine is and
how it is represented in the public domain. Many would have us think that famine is an age …

In this chapter, we aim to compare the Nordic societies in a broad fashion in the last 200
years in their process of “sailing”(with the implication of rough waters along the way) from …

The centenary of the Irish Revolution has just concluded, with 2023 marking the hundredth
anniversary of the 'dump arms' order which ended, albeit ambiguously, the civil war of 1922 …