The Virulence of Violence: Small Arms, Many Wars, Large Threat
The Washington Post The proliferation of light weapons is seriously impeding political and economic reforms in developing countries from Congo to Colombia, the author argues, and the resulting downward...
View ArticleWar: Which Way to Turn
Toronto Globe and Mail Should we go to war with Iraq? If you’re perplexed and confused by the issue, you’re not alone. In recent months, I’ve found my own opinion shifting from one side to the other, a...
View ArticleReview of Helge Brunborg, Ewa Tabeau, and Henrik Urdal (eds.) The Demography...
Population and Development Review, 34, No. 2 (June 2008) Can rapid population growth help cause civil violence, such as insurgency or revolution? How does war affect the population structure of...
View ArticleThe Conceptual Structure of Social Disputes: Cognitive-Affective Maps as a...
SAGEOpen (January-March 2014): 1-20. Co-authored with Manjana Milkoreit, Steven Mock, Tobias Schröder, and Paul Thagard. We describe and illustrate a new method of graphically diagramming disputants’...
View ArticleEbola Epidemic Could Precipitate Societal Collapse
Toronto Globe and Mail, September 18, 2014 World leaders finally seem to be waking up to the gravity of the Ebola threat. Like the rest of us, they’ve been distracted by the Islamic State’s rampage in...
View ArticleSynchronous Failure: The Emerging Causal Architecture of Global Crisis
Synchronous Failure: The Emerging Causal Architecture of Global Crisis with Brian Walker, Reinette Biggs, Anne-Sophie Crépin, Carl Folke, Eric F. Lambin, Garry D. Peterson, Johan Rockström, Marten...
View ArticleWhat is really at stake in extremist attacks
Toronto Globe and Mail, January 25, 2016 We’ve been lucky so far, because the bad guys have usually been stupid. But they probably won’t be stupid forever, so our luck probably won’t last. When it...
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