Abstract: This article examines the benefits and pitfalls of international policing in Haiti over the past quarter century. It shows the importance of the political foundations for joint policing arrangements. Haiti's experience illustrates that...
Jürgen Haacke (London School of Economics and Political Science), John D. Ciorciari (University of Michigan)
Abstract: The concept of hedging enjoys increasing use and attention in studies of international relations, particularly with respect to secondary states in the context of great power relations and competition. Increasingly, there is a consensus...
Abstract: What explains the emergence of leftist national liberation rebel groups? I argue that in imperial settings in the late-19th to mid-20th centuries, assimilatory education programs drew colonial elites to the imperial metropole. There,...
Abstract: Prevailing views suggest rebels govern to enhance their organizational capacity, but this project demonstrates that some rebels undertake costly governance projects that can imperil their cadres during war. The origins for this choice...
Zachariah Mampilly (Vassar College), Megan Stewart (University of Michigan)
Abstract: What are the different political institutions rebels create to engage captive civilian populations, and how do they arrive at distinct political arrangements? Rebel-controlled territories host a diversity of political institutions ranging...
