I4R Discussion Paper 107 Abstract This study pushes our understanding of research reliability by reproducing and replicating claims from 110 papers in leading economic and political science journals. Th

Lorne L. Dawson: Reconceptualizing Lone-Actor Terrorists as Solo Public Mass Murders

Lorne L. Dawson, Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo, Canada. In public and expert judgements of whether an incident of mass violence by a lone actor is an instance of terrorism or simply mass m

Seminar with Lorne L. Dawson, Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo, Canada. Register here > Abstract In public and expert judgements of whether an incident of mass violence by a lone actor is an

Selling pictures. Pictorial Economy and Commoditization 1820–2020

This project will place the current discussions concerning AI-generated images in a historical context, comparing it to two previous technological breakthroughs that have affected the use of pictures for commercial purposes. 

The purpose of the project is to stimulate and discuss knowledge-based text production alongside the dominant academic formats, to contribute to more animated writing and readable texts by scholars, and thereby enlarge their audience.

FOCUS, a EU security research project (Foresight Security Scenarios – Mapping Research to a Comprehensive Approach to Exogenous EU Roles) will be arranging a final symposium on the 31st of January and

In order to reach the goals in the Paris Agreement on how to combat climate change, some aggressive policy changes need to be put in place. Apart from creating policies, policy makers also need to gai

Causes and consequences of environmental protests. The global environmental contestation and civic mobilization observatory

Environmental protest events are increasing. Does it have any consequences for policy? With global data-sets, this project will try to answer that question.

International Studies Quarterly, Volume 62, Issue 3, p.534–547, doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqy013 Abstract In the early 1990s, the Russian public held overwhelmingly favorable attitudes toward the United States

Journal of Peace Research,  vol. 52,  no. 4,  p. 418-434. Abstract The Democratic Peace thesis suggests that the absence of war between major powers since 1945 is caused by the spread of democracy. The