Institutions that Manage Violent Conflict

The Mershon Center's third area of focus in international security studies is the institutions that manage violent conflict. This includes projects that deal with organizational structures that manage conflicting interests, such as:

• World Handbook of Political Indicators IV, which uses machine coding to boil down a decade of world events into a series of cross-national statistics.
• Segregation and Leadership in Groups, which studies how members of a group segregate themselves racially and ethnically, and how leaders within a group influence other members.
• Tracking the Rise of China and India, which systematically tracks the growth of Chinese and Indian connections to the global economy.
• Violent Conflict, Environmental Degradation, and Food Security, which expands on previous research to examine the complex relationships between armed conflict, environmental degradation, human trafficking, and child hunger.
• Issues in Multi-Dimensional Legislative Bargaining, which experiments with ways legislators bargain between national goods and their district's interests.
• Comparative National Election Project, a multi-year examination of democratic processes in democracies around the world.
• Indonesian National Election Project, which identifies the most important determinants of voter behavior in Indonesia.
• Dissent/Repression Nexus in the Middle East, which examines the cycle of dissent and repression in several key countries in the Middle East.
• People in Motion, which is creating a cross-national database of immigration policies around the world.
• IO Legitimization and the Use of Force, which looks at the role of international organizations such as the United Nations in international support for war.
• The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which investigates why the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has been such a success.

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