David D. Laitin

TL;DR: A sober assessment of their performance, in contrast to that of the civilian regime, is in order as discussed by the authors, and a sober assessment is in contrast with that of a civilian regime.

TL;DR: The authors explored how language policy affects the socioeconomic development of nation states through two channels: the individual's exposure to and (in reference to an individual's mother tongue) linguistic distance from the official language.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed the assimilation patterns of Muslim immigrants in Western countries with a unique identification strategy and found that Muslims and rooted French are locked in a suboptimal equilibrium whereby rooted French exhibit taste-based discrimination against those they are able to identify as Muslims and Muslims perceive French institutions as systematically discriminatory against them.

TL;DR: In this paper, a suicide attacker and other operatives are embedded in a club good model which emphasizes the function of voluntary religious organizations as providers of benign local public goods, and the model has testable implications for tactic choice of terrorists and for damage achieved by different types of terrorists, which are consistent with the data.

TL;DR: Protracted conflicts over the status and demands of ethnic and religious groups have caused more instability and loss of human life than any other type of local, regional, and international conflict.