The latest (and gated) issue of the American Political Science Association’s Perspectives on Politics is devoted to the study of violence. The editor Jeffrey C. Isaac’s introduction is “New Approaches to the Study of Violence.” The other contributions are:
States, Insurgents, and Wartime Political Orders
Paul Staniland
A Plague of Initials: Fragmentation, Cohesion, and Infighting in Civil Wars
Kristin M. Bakke and Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham and Lee J. M. Seymour
Terrorism and Civil War: A Spatial and Temporal Approach to a Conceptual Problem
Michael G. Findley and Joseph K. Young
The Political Science of Genocide: Outlines of an Emerging Research Agenda
Ernesto Verdeja
Can There Be a Political Science of the Holocaust?
Charles King
Retreating from the Brink: Theorizing Mass Violence and the Dynamics of Restraint
Scott Straus
“You Talk Of Terrible Things So Matter-of-Factly in This Language of Science”: Constructing Human Rights in the Academy
Charli Carpenter
Too Much Information? Political Science, the University, and the Public Sphere
Lisa Anderson
Looking into the Abyss
Daniel Chirot
Children and War: How “Soft” Research Can Answer the Hard Questions in Political Science
Christopher Blattman
Genocide and the Psychology of Perpetrators, Bystanders, and Victims
Lee Ann Fujii
Genocide and the Psychology of Perpetrators, Bystanders, and Victims
Kristina E. Thalhammer
Genocide and the Psychology of Perpetrators, Bystanders, and Victims
Joan C. Tronto