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  • U.S. Restraint and the Sharp Decline of Suicide Attacks Around the World Chicago Project on Security and Threats
    Robert A. Pape  |  March 2, 2023

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  • Understanding American Domestic Terrorism: Mobilization Potential and Risk Factors of a New Threat Trajectory Chicago Project on Security and Threats
    Robert A. Pape  |  April 6, 2021

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  • Why we cannot afford to ignore the American insurrectionist movement Chicago Project on Security and Threats
    Robert A. Pape  |  August 6, 2021

  • Deep, Divisive, Disturbing and Continuing: New Survey Shows Mainstream Support for Violence To Restore Trump Remains Strong Chicago Project on Security and Threats
    Robert Pape  |  January 2, 2022

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  • (Mis)Using Dyadic Data to Analyze Multilateral Events Political Analysis
    Paul Poast  |  January 4, 2017

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  • A Hole at the Center of the State: Prison Gangs and the Limits to Punitive Power CDDRL Working Papers
    Benjamin Lessing  |  October 2013

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  • A Multilevel Social Neuroscience Perspective on Radicalization and Terrorism Social Neuroscience
    Jean Decety, Robert A. Pape, Clifford I. Workman  |  November 8, 2017

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  • A New Strategy for Afghanistan The Boston Globe
    Robert A. Pape  |  January 30, 2019

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  • Adeus Às Armas Veja
    Benjamin Lessing  |  December 13, 2017

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  • America and Trade Liberalization: The Limits of Institutional Reform International Organization
    Judith Goldstein, Robert Gulotty  |  April 8, 2014

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  • American Face of Insurrection: Analysis of Individuals Charged for Storming the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 Chicago Project on Security and Threats
    Robert Pape  |  January 5, 2022

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  • Armed Groups and Militarized Elections International Studies Quarterly
    Paul Staniland  |  December 1, 2015

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  • Armed Politics and the Study of Intrastate Conflict Journal of Peace Research
    Paul Staniland  |  July 1, 2017

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  • Arms versus Democratic Allies British Journal of Political Science
    Matthew Digiuseppe, Paul Poast  |  November 8, 2016

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  • As Facções Cariocas em Perspectiva Comparativa Novos estudos CEBRAP
    Benjamin Lessing  |  March 2008

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  • Backing Out or Backing In? Commitment and Consistency in Audience Costs Theory American Journal of Political Science
    Jack S. Levy, Michael K. McKoy, Paul Poast, Geoffrey P.R. Wallace  |  June 15, 2015

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  • Backlash: Defiance, Human Rights and the Politics of Shame University of California, Berkeley
    Rochelle Terman  |  December 13, 2018

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  • Battlefield Successes and Challenges – Recent Efforts to Win the War against ISIS House of Representatives: Subcommittee on National Security of the Committee on Oversight and Reform
    Sebastian Gorka, Michael Pregent, Phillip Lohaus, Robert A. Pape  |  January 17, 2018

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  • Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Insurgent Fratricide, Ethnic Defection, and the Rise of Pro-State.. Journal of Conflict Resolution
    Paul Staniland  |  February 15, 2012

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  • Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War Cornell University Press | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Robert A. Pape  |  April 18, 1996

  • Can Issue Linkage Improve Treaty Credibility?: Buffer State Alliances as a “Hard Case” Journal of Conflict Resolution
    Paul Poast  |  October 1, 2013

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  • Causal Inference without Ignorability: Identification with Nonrandom Assignment and Missing Treatmen Political Analysis
    Walter R. Mebane, Paul Poast  |  January 4, 2017

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  • Central Banks at War International Organization
    Paul Poast  |  October 21, 2014

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  • Cities on Fire: Social Mobilization, State Policy, and Urban Insurgency Comparative Political Studies
    Paul Staniland  |  December 1, 2010

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  • Ciudad de Dios: ¿Un ejemplo para México? Nexos
    Benjamin Lessing  |  November 1, 2010

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  • Coercion and military strategy: Why denial works and punishment doesn’t Journal of Strategic Studies
    Robert A. Pape  |  December 1, 1992

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  • Coercive Air Power in the Vietnam War International Security
    Robert A. Pape  |  Fall 1990

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  • Counterproductive Punishment: How Prison Gangs Undermine State Authority Rationality and Society
    Benjamin Lessing  |  May 11, 2017

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  • Critics of US efforts have it wrong — Ukraine isn’t Libya or Afghanistan Chicago Tribune
    Kyle Larson and Daniel Silverman  |  11/1/2022

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  • Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It University of Chicago Press
    Robert A. Pape, James K. Feldman  |  October 7, 2010

  • Days of Action or Restraint? How the Islamic Calendar Impacts Violence American Political Science Review
    Michael J. Reese, Keven G. Ruby, Robert A. Pape  |  August 2017

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  • Deep, Destructive, and Disturbing: What We Know About Today’s American Insurrectionist Movement Chicago Project on Security and Threats
    Robert A. Pape  |  August 6, 2021

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  • Defeating transnational insurgencies: The best offense is a good fence The Washington Quarterly
    Paul Staniland  |  January 7, 2010

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  • Demand for Firearms in Brazil’s Urban Periphery: a Comparative Study Small Arms in Rio de Janeiro | Small Arms Survey
    Benjamin Lessing  |  December 2008

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  • Does Issue Linkage Work? Evidence from European Alliance Negotiations, 1860 to 1945 International Organization
    Paul Poast  |  2012

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  • Dyads Are Dead, Long Live Dyads! The Limits of Dyadic Designs in International Relations Research International Studies Quarterly
    Paul Poast  |  January 6, 2016

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  • Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism Random House Publishing Group
    Robert A. Pape  |  May 24, 2005

  • Eliminar facções criminosas é impossível, afirma pesquisador americano Folha de São Paulo
    Benjamin Lessing  |  October 14, 2018

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  • Explaining Civil-Military Relations in Complex Political Environments: India and Pakistan in Compara Security Studies
    Paul Staniland  |  May 22, 2008

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  • Explaining Cohesion, Fragmentation, and Control in Insurgent Groups Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Paul Staniland  |  December 12, 2018

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  • Governing trade beyond tariffs: the politics of multinational production and its implications for international cooperation Stanford University
    Robert Gulotty  |  August, 2014

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  • How to Partner With the Taliban Foreign Policy
    Robert A. Pape  |  August 26, 2019

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  • Inside out: The challenge of prison-based criminal organizations Brookings
    Benjamin Lessing  |  September 2016

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  • Internal security strategy in India India Review
    Paul Staniland  |  January 1, 2018

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  • Introducing the new CPOST dataset on suicide attacks Journal of Peace Research
    Robert A. Pape, Alejandro Albanez Rivas, Alexandra C. Chinchilla  |  April 26, 2021

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  • Islamophobia and Media Portrayals of Muslim Women: A Computational Text Analysis of US News Coverage International Studies Quarterly
    Rochelle Terman  |  September 1, 2017

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  • Islamophobia, Feminism and the Politics of Critique Theory, Culture & Society
    Rochelle Terman  |  March 1, 2016

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  • Issue linkage and international cooperation: An empirical investigation Conflict Management and Peace Science
    Paul Poast  |  July, 2013

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  • Legitimacy in Criminal Governance: Managing a Drug Empire from Behind Bars American Political Science Review
    Benjamin Lessing, Willis Graham Denyer  |  February 22, 2019

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  • Lincoln’s Gamble: Fear of Intervention and the Onset of the American Civil War Security Studies
    Paul Poast  |  July 3, 2015

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  • Logics of Violence in Criminal War Journal of Conflict Resolution
    Benjamin Lessing  |  December 1, 2015

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  • Making Peace in Drug Wars Cambridge University Press
    Benjamin Lessing  |  December 7, 2017

  • Mexico needs laser focus in drug war SF Gate (The San Francisco Chronicle)
    Benjamin Lessing  |  January 11, 2013

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  • Militias, Ideology, and the State Journal of Conflict Resolution
    Paul Staniland  |  August, 2015

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  • Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse Cornell University Press
    Paul Staniland  |  2014

  • Organizing Democracy: How International Organizations Assist New Democracies University of Chicago Press
    Paul Poast, Johannes Urpelainen  |  April 23. 2018

  • Organizing Insurgency: Networks, Resources, and Rebellion in South Asia International Security
    Paul Staniland  |  2012

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  • Patriotic Counter-Revolution: The Political Mindset that Stormed the Capitol Chicago Project on Security and Threats
    Robert A. Pape  |  April 11, 2022

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  • Politics and Threat Perception: Explaining Pakistani Military Strategy on the North West Frontier Security Studies
    Paul Staniland, Asfandyar Mir, Sameer Lalwani  |  October 2, 2018

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  • Remorse Or Double-Down? Those Who Stormed The Capitol Are Remorseful, But Do Not Repudiate Trump’s Big Lie Chicago Project on Security and Threats
    Robert A. Pape  |  September 14, 2022

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  • Soft Balancing against the United States International Security
    Robert A. Pape  |  2005

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  • Solving the Problem of Unattributed Political Violence Journal of Conflict Resolution
    Vincent Bauer, Keven Ruby, Robert A. Pape  |  November 5, 2015

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  • The American Face of ISIS: Analysis of ISIS-related terrorism in the US, March 2014 – August 2016 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
    Robert A. Pape, Jean Decety, Keven Ruby, Alejandro Albanez Rivas, Jens Jessen, Caroline Wenger  |  February 2, 2017

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  • The Danger of Dungeons: Prison Gangs and Incarcerated Militant Groups (Chapter 6) Small Arms Survey 2008 | Small Arms Survey
    Benjamin Lessing  |  June 2010

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  • The Economics of War McGraw-Hill Irwin
    Paul Poast  |  2006

  • The Face of American Insurrection: Right-Wing Organizations Evolving into a Violent Mass Movement [Updated July 2022] Chicago Project on Security and Threats
    Robert A. Pape and Keven Ruby  |  July 22, 2022

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  • The Jan 6th Hearings are Reducing the Violent Threat to Democracy, According to Latest Survey Chicago Project on Security and Threats
    Robert A. Pape  |  September 25, 2022

  • The Logic of Violence in Drug Wars: Cartel-State Conflict in Mexico, Brazil and Colombia CDDRL Working Papers
    Benjamin Lessing  |  October 2013

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  • The relational politics of shame: Evidence from the universal periodic review The Review of International Organizations
    Rochelle Terman, Erik Voeten  |  March 1, 2018

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  • The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism American Political Science Review
    Robert A. Pape  |  August 27, 2003

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  • The True Worth of Air Power Foreign Affairs
    Robert Pape  |  2004

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  • The Wall and Maastricht: exogenous shocks and the initiation of the EMU and EPU IGCs Journal of European Integration
    Paul Poast  |  September 1, 2004

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  • To Specify or Single Out: Should We Use the Term “Honor Killing”? Muslim World Journal of Human Rights
    Rochelle Terman  |  January 12, 2010

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  • Tres mitos sobre la guerra contra el narcotráfico (Chapter 3) Perspectivas | Development Bank of Latin America (CAF)
    Benjamin Lessing  |  December 2011

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  • Um olhar sobre o Mundo TV Brasil
    Benjamin Lessing  |  May 3, 2018

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  • Violence and Democracy Comparative Politics
    Paul Staniland  |  2014

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  • When Business Gets Bloody: State Policy and Drug Violence (Chapter 2) Small Arms Survey 2012 | Small Arms Survey
    Benjamin Lessing  |  August 2012

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  • When Duty Calls: A Pragmatic Standard of Humanitarian Intervention International Security
    Robert A. Pape  |  July 1, 2012

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  • When talking with terrorists makes sense Christian Science Monitor
    Paul Staniland  |  December 13, 2018

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  • Why Economic Sanctions Do Not Work International Security
    Robert A. Pape  |  Fall 1997

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  • Why Economic Sanctions Still Do Not Work International Security
    Robert A. Pape  |  Summer, 1998

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  • Why Japan Surrendered International Security
    Robert A. Pape  |  1993

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  • Winning the Bid: Analyzing the International Olympic Committee’s Host City Selections International Interactions
    Paul Poast  |  International Interactions

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