A5024926997- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Political Conflict and Governance
- Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
- Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria
- African history and culture analysis
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- Historical and Archaeological Studies
- Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
- Religion, Society, and Development
- Eurasian Exchange Networks
- Islamic Finance and Banking Studies
- Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
Center for Naval Analyses
2021-2022
Stanford University
2015
High rates of missing perpetrator information in political violence data pose a serious challenge for studies into militant group behavior and the microdynamics conflict more generally. In this article we introduce multiple imputation (MI) as best available method minimizing impact on quantitative analyses violence, that can easily be incorporated most research designs. MI will produce unbiased attributions when reasons missingness are known controlled using observed variables, rendering...
Scholars of civil wars have long argued that non-state actors can use selective punishment to reduce collaboration with state adversaries. However, there is little systematic evidence confirming this claim, nor investigation into the mechanisms at play. In paper, we provide such from drone war in Pakistan. Militants Pakistan’s tribal areas engaged a brutal counterespionage campaign aim reducing United States. Our analysis combines novel dataset collaborator killings data on strike outcomes....