‘We’re Ignoring Our Common Values and Interests’: A Conversation with Monica Harris …Indeed, there is some research to suggest that the very creation of red and blue-colored voting maps leads people to overestimate the extent of American political polarization. Monica Harris, the…
The Czechoslovak Arms Industry and the Changing Face of Global Warfare, 1859–1989 …First and Second World Wars. In doing so, it sheds light on the evolution of the radical political left in Central Europe and the various ways that leftist intellectuals understood…
In Ukraine and Elsewhere, Is Third-Party Diplomacy Helpful in Ending Wars? …Biden, has engaged in unilateral diplomacy and paused its aid under the second Trump administration, hoping to pressure Ukraine into a peace deal. Eric Min, assistant professor of political science…
HFG Fall Internship …problems of violence, such as war, crime, and human aggression. Through basic and applied research, we aim to understand the causes, manifestation, and control of violence. We spread this knowledge…
Ordinary Soldiers? A Case Study of the Nazi-Soviet War of Annihilation …combat record of the division reveals many examples of extreme violence. Within this case study, there were two primary research questions. First, in studying the division’s combat record, what examples…
Blackfoot Traditional Models of Aggression and Healing …Blackfoot people—from eighteenth-century British fur traders to early-twentieth-century ethnographers—witnessed very little interpersonal violence within Blackfoot communities. In Never in Anger, her study of a Canadian Inuit community nearly fifty years…
The Violent Life of Bruna Veríssimo: An Experimental Ethnographic Biography of a Homeless Brazilian Youth …lives of survivors; yet, what if violence is not so much an event but one of the few constant features in a life? What, for instance, do the relentlessly violent…
Drugs, Violence, and National Honor: British Foreign Policy and the Opium Crisis, 1833–1840 The first Opium War (1840–1842) was a defining moment in Anglo-Chinese relations, and since the 1840s the histories of its origins have tended to be straightforward narratives suggesting that the…
Entertaining, Informing, Discussing: How do Media Spread Messages of Peace and Violence? We test the causal effects of a democracy promotion radio intervention launched by an international nongovernmental organization (INGO) in South Sudan. The serial radio episodes addressed topics that are relatively…