Popular writing
Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more complicated
My piece in Wired
The Hard Truth About Long Wars: Why the Conflict in Ukraine Won’t End Anytime Soon
My Foreign Affairs piece on how ideals and ideology explain so many long wars, including this one
The roots of war: To discern why we fight, we should ask why we do not
Book excerpt in the Boston Review
If we elected more women would there be less war? Yes but not for the reasons you think
Opinion piece in Newsweek
Recommended podcasts
Predicting and preventing violent crime before it happens
NPR’s Hidden Brain podcast on violence from Monrovia to Chicago, and an amazing new way to stop it
The Weeds podcast at Vox.com
Fabulous discussion with the best social science reporter I know, Dylan Matthews
All radio & podcast appearances
From street fights to world wars: What gang violence can teach us about conflict
The Irregular Warfare podcast at West Point interviews me and Teny Gross, director of Chicago’s Nonviolence Institute
Predicting and preventing violent crime before it happens
NPR’s Hidden Brain podcast on violence from Monrovia to Chicago, and an amazing new way to stop it
Book reviews
Spectator picks WWF as a best book of 2022
Journalist and foreign correspondent Michela Wrong chooses Why We Fight
Behavioral Scientist: Summer Book List 2022
Behavioral Scientist recommends Why We FIght
Financial Times: A best summer book for 2022
Martin Wolf selects his best mid-year reads in economics
The Washington Post
An incremental way to peace despite Putin and the persistence of war, by Michael S. Neiberg
News articles
Vox FuturePerfect50
Profile: Economist Chris Blattman has reshaped our understanding of violence and poverty
Book Bite from The Next Big Idea Club
Read or listen to the 5 big ideas that will change the war you think about war (15min)
Interview with Christianity Today on Why We Fight
By Kent Annan on the Better Samaritan blog
Interviews and presentations
Presentation to the Joint Chiefs Operations Directorate
Conversation with Teny Gross on Gang Violence
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Interview with Raj Kumar of Devex
Foreign press
Acht Wochen Verhaltenstherapie und 200 Dollar verändern das Leben gewalttätiger Männer in Liberia nachhaltig
Eveline Geiser in NZZ
Review of Why We Fight in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Fünf Gründe für den Krieg, by Von Alexander Wulfers
