With this book, I aimed to create the resource I wish I had when I was just starting. Each chapter is crafted to guide absolute beginners clearly and encouragingly, from installing R and RStudio to publishing polished and ethical maps. You’ll find eleven detailed projects alongside dozens of examples, each accompanied by step-by-step explanations and full code transparency.

From the Patriotic Front struggle against the minority rule in Rhodesia to the seven-party mujaheddin alliance in Afghanistan, inter-rebel alliances make the armed opposition more resilient and successful in the face of government repression. Why then do some rebel groups cooperate with each other while others do not?

In their seminal study “Resort to Arms,” Small and Singer (1982) defined a civil war as “any armed conflict that involves (a) military action internal to the metropole, (b) the active participation of the national government, and (c) effective resistance by both sides.”

This paper introduces a spatial model of civil conflict management rhetoric to explore how the emerging norm of responsibility to protect shapes major power rhetorical responses to civil war.

Why do some militant groups defect against their sponsors, while others remain loyal?

Foreign governments frequently intervene in armed conflicts by sponsoring rebels against their adversaries. A sponsorship is less costly than a direct military intervention, but rebels often defy orders, desert fighting, or turn guns against their sponsors.

Major powers have long used cultural institutes to enhance their appeal in foreign countries. As aspirant powers, Russia and China have recently launched cultural institutes of their own with the aim of improving their international reputations.

Previous research suggests that great power recognition decisions regarding aspiring states rapidly converge toward either recognition or non-recognition, yet great power convergence has still not occurred in the case of Kosovo after more than ten years.

This article analyzes the effect of the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia on Serbian local elections using difference-in-differences identification strategy and identifies the effect of air strikes on the vote-share of Slobodan Milosevic's regime.

This is the first paper that estimates the causal effect of the NATO’s Operation Allied Force in Serbia in 1999, on children who were in the womb during the bombing.

This article suggests that there is a clear logic to haram targeting that can be derived from Salafi-jihadi groups’ ethnic structure.