Greed versus Grievance in Contemporary Civil Wars in Africa
Bölge Çalışmaları DergisiCivil wars, as intrastate conflicts, play a significant role in contemporary debates within peace and conflict studies. The end of the Cold War marked a notable increase in the prevalence of these wars, particularly in the global south.
Mohamed Alieu Bah, Foday Justice Jalloh
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Riots, coups and civil war : revisiting the greed and grievance debate [PDF]
The most influential recent work on the determinants of civil wars found the factors associated with the grievance motivation to be largely irrelevant.
Elbadawi, Ibrahim A., Bodea, Cristina
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A quantitative comparison of the colombian civil wars, 1830-2010 [PDF]
, 2011 The article intends to complement the qualitative literature on the Colombian civil wars with a quantitative comparison of them. From an operational definition of civil war, ten civil wars are identified, and variables related with the duration, severity
Giraldo Ramírez, Jorge +1 more
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With a Great Story Comes Great Responsibility: Role of Narrative in Leadership Development
New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 81-87, Spring 2025.ABSTRACT Comic books reside uniquely within American culture. Historians have contended comics are more than just sequential artwork mixed with engaging stories, but rather, a framework by which the generations make sense of who they are. These stories are a reflection of cultural conscience; a lens through which we can view the world and a mirror ...
Sean Connable
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Economic and Political Causes of Genocidal Violence: A comparison with findings on the causes of civil war [PDF]
Genocide is different from civil war: it usually involves deaths on a much larger scale and targets particular groups – mostly civilians - often with the aim of exterminating them.
Frances Stewart
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The Canary Down the Coalmine: Dagenham, London and Labour Politics
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The history of Dagenham offers unique insights into both the changing composition of the working class and the forces that have reshaped domestic politics throughout the last 100 years, particularly the politics of the British labour movement.
Jon Cruddas
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Soulèvements arabes : la « révolution » dans ses crises
Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2016 Four years after the beginning of the “Arab uprisings”, a certain pessimism is gaining ground: researchers, analysts, political actors previously involved in the social contestations of the spring 2011, have reasons to doubt the possibility of “Arab ...
Nicolas Dot-Pouillard
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Working Paper 73 - Economic and Political Causes of Civil Wars in Africa: Some Econometric Results [PDF]
In this paper, we investigated whether civil wars in Africa have economic andpolitical causes. The model is based on the Collier-Hoeffler “greed” and “grievance”theory in which rebels will conduct a civil war for “loot-seeking” and “justiceseeking ...
John Anyanwu
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Dangerous Deference: What the British Public Think about Civil‐Military Relations
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Accepted norms of democratic civil‐military relations aver, regarding the use of force, that military officers may not substitute civilians’ judgement with their own and that civilians should not follow their guidance blindly. These theories often rest on the presumption that three critical actors—government, armed forces, and the public ...
David Blagden +2 more
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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