Other Research

While I'm deeply invested in my primary research agenda of violence and identity, like a lot of researchers I often find myself working on other questions, especially during the COVID-era. Below are three projects I'm working on with other researchers, in part due to their policy relevance. 

For my students and myself, COVID turned our lives upside down. A fair question is how it would affect violence globally. Working with co-authors, I've looked some at what we can tell about violence in the era of COVID, and what conditions might explain where we see more or less.

Publications: Pape, Robert. A., & Price, Christopher. (2024). A Slow-Rolling Disaster: Assessing the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Militant Violence. Journal of Conflict Resolution 68 (4): 642-672. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220027231180101

How do administrative and organizational factors influence counterinsurgency? While recent scholarship focuses on the importance of organizational factors in understanding the dynamics of civil wars, many of these works focus solely on rebels, rather than the state. 

Using available archival and publicly available data on US military deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, co-authors and I investigate how promotions, unit organization, and rotations affect counterinsurgency. 

Traditionally, IR and Comparative politics scholars of violence  have limited the attention paid to political violence in America. 

Working as part of a team at the Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST), we are analyzing determinants of support for American Extremism. Our research has been briefed to policy makers and covered in the New York Times.