HiCN Working Papers Series
Losing Hearts & Minds: Aid and Ideology
‘Hearts and minds’ theory contends development aid strengthens community support for counterinsurgents by providing jobs and public goods. Based on field interviews in Kabul, we […]
War and Social Attitudes: Revisiting Consensus Views
Travers Barclay Child, Elena Nikolova
We study the long-run effects of conflict on social attitudes, with World War II in Central and Eastern Europe as our setting. Much of earlier […]
We Don’t Need No Education: Reconstruction and Conflict across Afghanistan
Field interviews conducted by the author in Afghanistan suggest current theories linking conflict to development do not adequately account for ideological drivers of resistance. We […]