Paper explores the effect of foreign sponsorship on the likelihood of civil war reoccurance.

This article based on new archival documents introduces a new episode of mass operations, which took place in June and July of 1927 and was directed against the broad group of “anti-Soviet” forces. It preceded many practices of mass terror of the 1930s with judicial and extra-legal mechanisms. The goal of this article is to explain motivations, justifications, and mechanisms of this repressive campaign and to put this episode in the wider context of Soviet terror. Facing the combination of a perceived danger of war and real internal social hostility expressed in broad defeatism, both threatening the perpetuation of their governmental powers, authorities resorted to repressions. The 1927 episode highlights the factor of a perceived threat of war as a crucial motivating element in Soviet repressive tactics.

Paper explores the relationship between decentralization and the onset of civil wars.

Paper investigates the effect of colonial legacy on brutality seen during post-colonial civil wars.

Article explores the applications for employment at Platt National Park in order to paint a picture of the first years of Platt National Park and show how politics and personality affected federal hiring processes.

Paper analyzes the correlation between the size of a peacekeeping force and the likelihood of peacekeeping failures.

Paper analyzes the effect of societal support on the likelihood of civil conflict.

Paper explores the link between types of authoritarian regimes and violent and nonviolent dissent.