Journal Articles

Butcher, C., & Griffiths, R. (2015). Between Eurocentrism and Babel? A Framework for the Analysis of States, State Systems, and International Orders. International Studies Quarterly, In Press.

Butcher, C. and Goldsmith, B. (2016). ‘Elections, Ethnicity and Political Instability'. Comparative Political Studies, In press.

​Butcher, C. (2015). ‘Capital punishment’: Bargaining and the geography of civil war. Journal of Peace Research, 52(2), 171-186.

Butcher, C. and Svensson, I. 'Manufacturing Dissent': Modernization and the Onset of Major Nonviolent Resistance Campaigns. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 60(2): 311-339

Butcher, C., & Griffiths, R. (2015). Alternative international systems? System structure and violent conflict in nineteenth-century West Africa, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. Review of International Studies, 41(04), 715-737.

Sutton, Jonathan., Charles Butcher and Isak Svensson. (2014) Explaining Political Jujitsu: Institution Building and the Outcomes of Severe Violence against Unarmed Protestors. Journal of Peace Research. 51(5): 559-573

Griffiths, Ryan and Charles Butcher. (2013) Introducing the International System(s) Dataset (ISD), 1816-2012. International Interactions. 39(5): 748-768.

Goldsmith, Benjamin, Charles Butcher, Dimitri Semenovich and Arcot Sowmya. (2013). Forecasting the Onset of Genocide and Politicide: Annual Out-of-Sample Forecasts on a Global Dataset, 1988-2003. Journal of Peace Research, 50(4): 437-452

Book Chapters

Butcher, Charles, Brauer, Jurgen and Anderton, Charles. 2016. Mass Killing in Sturmey, Peter (ed) The Wiley Handbook of Violence and Aggression. Hoboken NJ: Wiley. Forthcoming. 

Butcher, Charles and Benjamin Goldsmith. 2016. Economic Risk Factors and Predictive Modelling of Genocide and Mass Killing in Jurgen Brauer and Charles Anderton (eds) Economic Aspects of Genocide, Mass Killing, and Their Prevention. Oxford UK: Oxford University Press.