In this paper we examine the effects of police body-worn cameras through a randomized control trial implemented in Rio de Janeiro.

State interventions against drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) sometimes work to improve security, but often exacerbate violence.

As Mao euphemistically remarked, revolutions are not dinner parties. Violence is to be expected when political regimes are overturned.

The levels of violence in Mexico have dramatically increased in the last few years due to structural changes in the drug trafficking business.

This article seeks to look broadly at Second World War violence through the lens of gender; to shift the focus from attacks on ethno-national groups to the ways that women were targeted within and...

This is a 2016 French translation of Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade (2012), translated by Charlotte Nordmann and part of the series "L'Univers Historique."

This paper evaluates the causal impact of Rio de Janeiro’s Pacifying Police Units (UPPs), probably the largest–scale police reform initiative taking place in the developing world.

In 2006 the Mexican government launched an aggressive campaign to weaken drug-trafficking organizations (DTOs).

The levels of violence in Mexico have dramatically increased in the last few years due to structural changes in the drug trafficking business.

Abstract:The state’s central function is to establish authority through its monopoly on violence; the very attempt, however, can be counterproductive.

Abstract After the collapse of the Soviet bloc, its twenty-seven successor states were charged with devising policies with respect to their ethnic minorities.