2007 study by the Dubai School of Government’s Wolfensohn Center for Development on deep jobless problems among young adults in Syria.

2011 study by the University of Warwick and Humboldt University on the rate of global conflict over the past 130 years

Report by the U.S. Defense Science Board on emerging strategy to combat violent insurgents and stabilize societies

2011 study in the American Journal of Political Science on the effects of foreign aid on conflict in developing countries.

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.

2011 report in the British Journal of Sociology on underlying and environmental factors that fueled the mass killing in Darfur.

2011 report by the Congressional Research Service on expenditures for conflicts and terrorism-related operations since 2001.

2004 paper in the Journal of Strategic Studies on the dynamics of aerial campaigns over Iraq and Bosnia.

2006 study by the University of Colorado, Rutgers and UCLA on the likely effects of a nuclear explosion in a densely populated city.

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