Peer-Reviewed Journals
Looking back on the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is evident that one of the greatest impairments for Western stability practitioners was their inability to identify with indigenous perspectives. Despite this well-known weakness, there is a way to acquire...
Peer-Reviewed Journals
In the recent era of state formation in Afghanistan, hundreds of small popular movements rebelled against the Taliban throughout the country. One in particular stands out – the Andar Uprising in the spring of 2012 gave a compelling case of local vigilantism in an area...
Book Projects
State sponsored paramilitary groups are a dangerous phenomenon in the developing world. Among late developing states, where intrastate wars are pervasive, paramilitaries have carried the responsibility of nearly 90 percent of all casualties of war (Lacina and...
Book Projects
Paramilitarism represents a dangerous dilemma for developing states seeking to monopolize the use of force. On one end of the spectrum, paramilitaries serve as an extra-legal, internal mechanism for states to extend their influence, build capacity, and...