Visions of Gulf Security POMEPS Studies 7 — March 25, 2014 The turbulence in Gulf security politics today is difficult…
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Education, Income, and Support for Suicide Bombings: Evidence from Six Muslim Countries
Do average citizens from Muslim countries support suicide bombings, or does support for such attacks vary according to education and…
Continue ReadingA Field Manual for the Cradle of Civilization
What lessons about state-building and counterinsurgency can be applied to U.S. efforts in Iraq? To answer this question, Roger Myerson’s…
Continue ReadingOil and Revolutionary Governments: Fuel for International Conflict
Petrostates are more likely than other states to engage in militarized interstate disputes (MIDs). What explains this correlation? In the…
Continue ReadingNonstate Actors and the Diffusion of Innovations: The Case of Suicide Terrorism
What if the inclination of a terrorist group to adopt suicide bombing as a tactic is determined less by individual…
Continue ReadingTriggering Nationalist Violence: Competition and Conflict in Uprisings against Colonial Rule
From Algeria to Afghanistan, Sri Lanka to Chechnya, violence by nationalist actors has become increasingly popular. However, many nationalist actors…
Continue ReadingDemocratization, Instability, and War: Israel’s 2006 Conflicts with Hamas and Hezbollah
Are democratizing states more likely to be war-prone? In a 2010 article in Security Studies, Evan Braden Montgomery and Stacie…
Continue ReadingTransnational Connections in the Middle East: Political Economy, Security and Geopolitical Imaginaries
While some view the rise of free trade zones in the Persian Gulf starting in the 1970s as the inevitable…
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