Conflicts
Youth exclusion in Syria: Social, economic and institutional dimensions
| August 11, 2011
2007 study by the Dubai School of Government’s Wolfensohn Center for Development on deep jobless problems among young adults in Syria.
Conflicts
The frequency of wars
| July 26, 2011
2011 study by the University of Warwick and Humboldt University on the rate of global conflict over the past 130 years
U.S. Foreign Policy
U.S. Defense Science Board: Counterinsurgency, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations
| July 19, 2011
Report by the U.S. Defense Science Board on emerging strategy to combat violent insurgents and stabilize societies
Africa
Foreign aid shocks as a cause of violent armed conflict
| July 5, 2011
2011 study in the American Journal of Political Science on the effects of foreign aid on conflict in developing countries.
Conflicts
Pentagon Papers: Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force
| July 1, 2011
Complete and unredacted release of the Pentagon Papers by the U.S. National Archives, including all supporting documentation and an account of the Vietnam peace negotiations.
Africa
Displaced and dispossessed of Darfur: Explaining sources of genocide
| June 15, 2011
2011 report in the British Journal of Sociology on underlying and environmental factors that fueled the mass killing in Darfur.
Security, Military
Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan and anti-terrorism operations
| May 3, 2011
2011 report by the Congressional Research Service on expenditures for conflicts and terrorism-related operations since 2001.
Conflicts
Lessons from no-fly zones in Iraq and Bosnia
| April 22, 2011
2004 paper in the Journal of Strategic Studies on the dynamics of aerial campaigns over Iraq and Bosnia.
China
Effects of nuclear conflicts and acts of nuclear terrorism
| March 22, 2011
2006 study by the University of Colorado, Rutgers and UCLA on the likely effects of a nuclear explosion in a densely populated city.
Conflicts
Equality and inequality in the Arab region
| February 25, 2011
2010 study by the World Bank and Laval University for the Cairo-based Economic Research Forum on development and economic challenges in the Arab world