Erica Chenoweth

Former Investigator

Lead Investigator on START Research Projects

Countering Terrorism in the United States
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Dealing with the Devil: When Bargaining with Terrorists Works
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Selected Publications

Threat, Emboldenment, or Both? The Effects of Political Power on Violent Hate Crimes  (Journal Article)
The Future of Nonviolent Resistance  (Journal Article)
Civil Action and the Dynamics of Violence  (Book)
The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism  (Book)
The Future is a Moving Target: Predicting Political Instability  (Journal Article)
Introducing the Nonviolent Action in Violent Contexts (NVAVC) dataset  (Journal Article)
The Politics of Terror  (Book)
Days of Rage: Introducing the NAVCO 3.0 Dataset  (Journal Article)
Nonviolent Resistance and Prevention of Mass Killings During Popular Uprisings  (Report)
The Canadian Way of Counterterrorism: Introducing the GATE-Canada Data Set  (Journal Article)
Do Contemporaneous Armed Challenges Affect the Outcomes of Mass Nonviolent Campaigns?  (Journal Article)
Introducing Government Actions in Terror Environments (GATE) Dataset  (Conference Paper)
Repressive Efforts are Consistently Counterproductive in Reducing al-Qaeda-Inspired Violence Against Canadians  (Report)
Regime Type and Terrorist Attacks  (Book Chapter)
Political Mobilization and Institutions  (Book Chapter)
Civil Resistance: Reflections on an Idea Whose Time Has Come  (Journal Article)
Terrorism and Democracy  (Journal Article)
Unpacking nonviolent campaigns : Introducing the NAVCO 2.0 dataset  (Journal Article)
Government Actions in Terror Environments (GATE): A Methodology that Reveals how Governments Behave toward Terrorists and their Constituencies  (Book Chapter)
Democratic Pieces: Democratization and the Origins of Terrorism  (Book Chapter)
All Terrorism Is Local: Resources, Nested Institutions, and Governance for Urban Homeland Security in the American Federal System  (Journal Article)
Rethinking Violence: States and Non-State Actors in Conflict  (Book)
The Effectiveness of Counterterrorism in Spain: A New Approach  (Conference Paper)
To Bribe or to Bomb: Do Corruption and Terrorism Go Together?  (Book Chapter)
What Makes Terrorists Tick  (Journal Article)
The Politics of Collective Action: Security Collaboration for Combating Terrorism  (Book Chapter)
Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict  (Journal Article)
On Classifying Terrorism: A Potential Contribution of Cluster Analysis for Academics and Policymakers  (Journal Article)
All Terrorism is Local: Resources, Nested Institutions, and Governance for Urban Homeland Security in the American Federal System  (Journal Article)
Book Review: Lutz, J. M., & Lutz, B. J. (2005). Terrorism: Origins and Evolution.  (Book Review)

News References

Foreign Affairs: The death and life of terrorist networks
Vox: There are proven ways to keep protests peaceful. Trump is doing the opposite.
BBC: How many people does it take to oust a political leader?
The Atlantic: When Women Lead Protest Movements
Vox: Donald Trump is inciting violence
The New York Times: Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History
Politico: How women make protests more successful
The Washington Post: The Floyd protests are the broadest in U.S. history - and are spreading to white, small-town America
Vox: Media coverage has blown anti-lockdown protests out of proportion
Quartz: Covid-19 won’t stop the climate emergency—but will it stop climate-change protests?
Vogue: Cameron Russell and Aine Campbell Imagine a Kinder Fashion Industry
The Guardian: The global pandemic has spawned new forms of activism – and they’re flourishing
Ms. Magazine: Four Key Global Trends on Gender, Security and Safety
Business Insider: Experts on activism say millions would have to fill the streets to curb Trump's authoritarian behavior
The Washington Post: The resiliency of American democracy
Brookings Institution: Why are people protesting?
Vox: How to topple dictators and transform society
The New Yorker: The Story of 2019: Protests in Every Corner of the Globe
Los Angeles Times: From Iran to Chile to Sudan, protests take hold around the world
The New York Times: From Chile to Lebanon, Protests Flare Over Wallet Issues
The Guardian: The Guardian view on Extinction Rebellion: numbers alone won't create change
TechCrunch: Catalan separatists have tooled up with a decentralized app for civil disobedience
The Telegraph: Australian state proposes two-year prison sentence for possession of Extinction Rebellion 'human lock'
Vice: If 3.5% of the US Gets on Board With Climate Protesting, Change Will Happen
Quartz: If we are naturally violent, why do armies spend so much on training to kill?
BBC Science Focus: Peaceful protests: Are non-violent demonstrations an effective way to achieve change?
Vox: How big was the global climate strike? 4 million people, activists estimate.
USA Today: Friday's global strike was likely the largest climate rally ever
USIP: To Build Peace, Boost the Women Who Lead the Movements
Small Wars Journal: Adding Strategic Nonviolence to the Unconventional Warfare Doctrine
USIP: People Power Can Boost the Afghan Peace Process
The Conversation: Extinction Rebellion uses tactics that toppled dictators – but we live in a liberal democracy
NPR: Recipe For A Revolution
MSN News: Rebelling against extinction
BBC Future: The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
USA Today: US army could help Venezuela with nonviolent resistance against Maduro
Foreign Affairs: People Power Is Rising in Africa
Tampa Bay Times: Marco Rubio and Venezuela: What a Twitter campaign to oust Maduro says about modern diplomacy
The Hill: Any US military intervention in Venezuela will be counterproductive
The Washington Post: The 2019 Women’s March was bigger than you think
The Conversation: ‘Bye Bye 45:’ Activists create news hoax with President’s resignation
New Republic: How to Build a Powerful Protest Movement
WVIK: Can Peaceful Protest Successfully Influence Change?
Washington Post: 3 ways to look at August’s protests — and 2 charts showing all protests since January 2017
The Washington Post: Pittsburgh shooting comes amid rise in hate crimes, growing anxiety about right-wing extremism
FiveThirtyEight: How To Make Sense Of This Week’s Mail Bombs
Vice: Tracing the Tactics of 21st-Century Youth Protest
Christian Science Monitor: A nonviolent movement challenges Pakistan's military
Oxfam Blogs: Violence v Non Violence: which is more effective as a driver of change?
GQ: How Free Speech Warriors Mainstreamed White Supremacists
Washington Post: How to make sense of our collapsing global order
The Reason: Is It OK To Punch a Nazi? We Asked Berkeley Students
Washington Post: The Iran struggle will be historic. Here’s what Trump should do.
The Washington Post: What political science can tell us about mass shootings
The New York Times: How to Respond to Richard Spencer
Task and Purpose: Looking For A Gender Gap In The Army? Try The Army Chief Of Staff’s Reading List
Vox: The case against antifa
Westworld: Resistance in Denver
New Yorker: An Intimate History of Antifa
New York Times: How to Make Fun of Nazis
5280 Magazine: In the Age of Trump, Resistance Isn’t Futile
WXXI-TV Online: America Abroad: Civil Resistance: The Power of the People
Carleton Newsroom: Carleton's Canadian Foreign Policy Journal Announces Winner of Best Paper Prize
Newsweek: Inside the Black Bloc, the radical protest tactic that shut down Berkeley
Hit & Run: When the Left Glorifies Violence Against People It Dislikes, Trump Wins
Daily Illini, University of Illinois: Protests shouldn't escalate into violence
Good Times: Inauguration Sparks Women's Marches and Strikes Across the Country
ETH Zurich: Women in Nonviolent Movements
Huffington Post: Why we need to change the way we talk about violent extremism this election season
Salon: Why an armed citizenry isn’t the best defense against state tyranny
Duluth News-Tribune: Breaking things, hurting people not best way to solve global problems
Oxford University Press: Counterterrorism
Vox: From Occupy to Black Lives Matter; how nonviolent resistance is shaping the 2016 elections
National Catholic Reporter: Why is the Catholic church moving away from just war theory?
Radio New Zealand: Erica Chenoweth: Non-violent civil resistance
Williamette Live: KMUZ Program Feature- Quintessential KMUZ Energy and Innovation
North Country Now: St. Lawrence University’s Department of History to Host Guest Lecturer in Canton
Vail Daily: Vail Symposium Unveils Winter 2015 Programs
Foreign Policy: Remember What They Died for on the Maidan
Good Times: Melt the Guns
OpenDemocracy: Resistance, repression, and the cycle of violence in the Uyghur Struggle
Foreign Policy: You Should Still Be Scared of Pyongyang
Foreign Policy: How the Hong Kong Protesters Can Win
PostBulletin.com: Rich Van Dellen: Efforts to stop global wars will benefit world’s climate
Vox: An expert explains how Hong Kong’s protesters could actually win
MPR News: Terrorists talk nation-building, not death, to recruit Twin Cities youth
Foreign Policy: The nature of coalitions
The Gilmer Mirror: ISIL, the US, and curing our addiction to violence
HuntingtonNews.net: OP-EDL: ISIL, the US, and curing our addiction to violence
MintPress News: The New Realpolitik: Henry Kissinger, ISIS, and American Empire
NPR: Why Civil Resistance Movements Succeed
Foreign Affairs: Drop Your Weapons— When and Why Civil Resistance Works
Dr. Erica Chenoweth: Global thinker, peace researcher  (News)
PRIO: Erica Chenoweth Receives Karl Deutsch Award
Foreign Policy names Erica Chenoweth a top global thinker  (News)
START Newsletter: Intelligence and security; perspectives on terrorism; Hezbollah; 'big data' and coding  (Newsletter)
START: START researcher comments on military interventions in civil wars
Foreign Affairs: Why Sit-Ins Succeed -- Or Fail
Can verbal communication quell terrorist violence?  (Featured Research)
Discussion Point: Thinking Beyond Deterrence  (Discussion Point)
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Democracy and Terrorism
Discussion Point: The Dog that Doesn't Bark  (Discussion Point)
Database Spotlight: Government Actions in a Terror Environment-Israel  (Featured Research)
GlobeNewswire and Homeland Security Today: Moving Beyond Deterrence: The Effectiveness of Raising the Expected Utility of Abstaining from Terrorism in Israel
'Carrot' Works Better than 'Stick' Against Terror in Israel  (Featured Research)
Inside Indonesia: Why Civil Resistance Works
Researcher Spotlight: Erica Chenoweth  (People Spotlight)
START seminar lecturer receives top honors  (People Spotlight)
START investigators present research at national conference  (Featured Research)
Terrorism expert discusses new research during START Seminar  (Featured Research)
START Releases 2011 Research Review  (Featured Research)
START Investigators Participate in 2011 American Sociological Association Annual Conference  (Featured Research)
Sojourners: People Power
START Announces 2009-2010 Undergraduate Research Program Award Recipients  (News)
START Bulletin Summer 2008 Inaugural Issue  (Newsletter)
START Announces 2007-08 Fellowship Awards  (News)
Columbia University Press: Marc Lynch and Erica Chenoweth on U.S. Military Intervention in Syria