Should activism be treated as an indicator of attitudes towards political violence? September 4, 2023 Tomislav PavlovićDepartment of Psychology, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia
Measuring the competitive communicative constitution of insurgencies and their opponents June 27, 2023 Kyle M. SchwingJason SpitalettaJonathan Pitta Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USAb Department of Psychology, Catholic University, Washington, DC, USAKyle M. Schwing is a recent graduate of the Individualized Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program at Virginia Tech.Jason Spitaletta is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the Catholic University of America.Jonathan Pitt is an adjunct faculty member of the Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering and an affiliate of the Intelligent Systems Division of the National Security Institute at Virginia Tech.
Normative and instrumental judgements of policing and their relative impacts on police empowerment during protracted conflict June 4, 2023 Daisy MuibuDepartment of Criminology & Criminal Justice, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USADr. Daisy Muibu is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice and a Research Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research examines the relationship between terrorism, domestic security sector actors, counterterrorism/counterinsurgency, the public, and civil conflict.
‘When militias go ‘rogue’: explaining anti-government extremism in so-called ‘pro-nation-state’ militias in the United States of America and Ukraine June 1, 2023 Dale PankhurstSchool of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Vicious gift? Types of external support and child recruitment by rebel groups May 31, 2023 Yun Jung YangWaseda University, JapanYun Jung, Yang finished her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Essex in December 2022. Her main research interests are child soldiering, human rights violations, and non-state armed groups’ tactical selections.

Diasporas in Home Country Politics

Diasporas in Home Country Politics

Notice the new section of the Asch web site! “Diasporas in Home Country Politics” is the new tab at the top of the Asch home page.

Diasporas have been studied for their effects on the economics, politics, and culture of their host countries, usually Western countries. Much less attention has been given to the effects of diasporas on their countries of origin, and especially little attention has been given to diaspora effects on the politics of their countries of origin. This new section of the Asch web site has been initiated to bring together research on precisely this topic: the power of diasporas in home country politics.

Everyone is invited to submit work of this kind–your own or others’–to Clark McCauley (cmccaule@brynmawr.edu). Titles, abstracts, and author emails should be submitted for posting in the new section. The goal is to develop an interdisciplinary subculture that will forward understanding of the power of diasporas, for good and for ill, in home country politics.

The impetus for this new initiative is recent work by Maria Koinova; her three papers already posted provide a fast start for the new section!

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Published by the University of Texas Press the book features 100 of Hyman's photographs and six critical essays that depict and discuss the emotional aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks -- a time when people from all walks of life created and encountered memorials to those who were murdered. Vernacular art appeared almost everywhere—on walls, trees, playgrounds, vehicles, houses, tombstones, and even on bodies. This outpouring of grief and other acts of remembrance impelled photographer Jonathan Hyman to document and preserve these largely impermanent, spontaneous expressions. This book, a unique archive of 9/11 public memory, is the result of his compiling a collection of 20,000 photographs, along with field notes and personal interviews. For more information about the book or to purchase it, visit the book's page at Amazon or Facebook.