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, 2011 The identification of intra-national armed conflict as a leading problem for the international community in the 1990s produced a wave of novel research into civil wars.
Jacob Mundy
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RIVALRY OR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY? WHAT DETERMINES PROXY INTERVENTION IN CONFLICTS
Political Studies ForumAfter the 2011 NATO-led military intervention in Libya, requiring the coordinated effort of three Great Powers to pass a once-in-a-decade UN Security Council Resolution, states seeking to influence the outcome of civil wars in the MENA region ...
Natalia Tellidou
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From old wars to new wars and global terrorism [PDF]
The 9/11 attacks created an urgent need to understand contemporary wars and their relationship to older conventional and terrorist wars, both of which exhibit remarkable regularities. The frequency-intensity distribution of fatalities in "old wars", 1816-
Neil Johnson +3 more
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Murder by Numbers: Socio-Economic Determinants of Homicide and Civil War [PDF]
Deliberate killing is a common part of the defining features of both homicide and civil war. Often, the scale of killing is also similar: most countries have homicide rates that exceed the threshold of one thousand combat-related deaths during a year ...
Paul Collier, Anke Hoeffler
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Wars are increasingly frequent, and the trend has been steadily upward since 1870. The main tradition of Western political and philosophical thought suggests that extensive economic globalization and democratization over this period should have reduced ...
Harrison, Mark; Wolf, Nikolaus
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Gender disparities in mortality from infectious diseases in Serbia, 1991-2014: a time of civil wars and global crisis. [PDF]
Epidemiol Infect, 2016 Ilic M, Ilic I.
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Population Size, Per Capita Income, and the Risk of Civil War: Regional Heterogeneity in the Structural Relationship Matters [PDF]
A common finding in the empirical civil war literature is that population size and per capita income are highly significant predictors of civil war incidence and onset.
Markus Brückner
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Are civil wars to blame for crime in Central America?
Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2008 The countries of Central America are high up on the list of nations with the highest crime rates in the world. According to the literature, the most common argument is that these high crime rates are a legacy of the armed conflicts of the 1980s.
Ana Sofia Cardenal Izquierdo
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External Interventions: Bluffing and Adaptive Learning in Civil Wars
This paper examines the effectiveness of bluffing about external intervention in shaping civil war dynamics using an agent-based model. It argues that warring parties' initial information levels about interveners and their learning processes determine ...
Radziszewski, Elizabeth +2 more
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Patterns of Force: System Strength, Terrorism and Civil War [PDF]
We jointly analyze the genesis of terrorism and civil war, providing a simple conceptual framework to explain why violent opposition groups choose distinct forms of violence (i.e., terrorism and open rebellion).
Andreas Freytag +3 more
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