The study of “teen-combatants” is a growing subfield in the history of children at war, the history of war violence in general, and World War I in particular. Too young to be legally enlisted as conscripts in 1914-1918, teen combatants also felt that they

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Arms are useful not only for deterrence or taking territory, but also because they influence the resolution of a set of disputed issues. It is shown that states can cooperate on the issues by limiting military competition.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan convinced many policymakers and scholars that the United States should pull back in international affairs and that restraint should guide grand strategy. Paul D. Miller offers a tough-minded critique of this trending body.

Many Western analysts have been reticent to use the term civil war to describe conflict in Ukraine.

Sean Kay will present his new book which uses interviews with more than 60 American and international rock and roll performers, songwriters, producers, managers, and non-profit activists to show how rock and roll has driven progress.

In the last three months of 1918 the Western Allies finally defeated the Central Powers.

The public’s ability to form attitudes and opinions that may guide decisions to use military force is among the most important duties of citizens of democratic nations.

The public’s ability to form attitudes and opinions that may guide decisions to use military force is among the most important duties of citizens of democratic nations.

For the past decade, the world has been in a modest but persistent recession of freedom and democracy.

Democratic rule is maintained so long as all relevant actors in the political system comply with the institutional rules of the game – democratic institutions must be self-enforcing.

The “Report from Iron Mountain,” was published in 1967 as an alleged leaked study by an unnamed U.S. government task force regarding the “possibility and desirability of peace” with the Soviet Union.

Produced by soldiers and veterans, the materials through which we seek to understand war carry war’s antagonisms; they are shaped by fighting, by specific battles, by old debts and lost arguments between commanders.

International humanitarian law on prisoners of war and other issues has grown extensively over the last century and a half.

In both developed and developing states, challenges to the liberal order are converging on a single main competitor, populist nationalism, which is a response to the tension between two central elements of liberal modernity.

Regimes deal with armed groups in remarkably diverse ways: in some contexts they wage total wars of annihilation, in others they cut live-and-let-live deals, and in yet others they closely ally with non-state actors.

How are defense cooperation and economic cooperation related? Research into this important question has focused primarily on trade and militarized conflict or, more relevantly, trade and military alliances.

This talk considers the case of the 1975 UN International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City to discuss the ways that 1970s feminism and the explosion of women’s organizing around the world reoriented global policies around a host of issues.

Where and when do we find the origins of today’s planetary crisis? In this lecture, Moore argues that rise of capitalism in the centuries after 1450 marked an environment-making revolution greater than any since the dawn of agriculture.

King believed that racial injustice and economic injustice have always been linked in America.

In this talk, Hurd introduces the central argument of her book, Beyond Religious Freedom.

A Neurally-Informed Model of Habit in Consumer Choice

How do American Jews envision their role in the world? Are they tribal — a people whose obligations extend solely to their own?

After the Soviet Union’s dissolution, the Kura-Araks Basin became an international river basin with respect to the South Caucasus states of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Despite differences among these countries, they depend greatly on the Kura-Araks.

Why do politicians in some democracies redistribute more than in others?