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The health consequences of civil wars: evidence from Afghanistan. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2023
This study examines the effects of long-run civil wars on healthcare, which is an important component of human capital development and their causality nexus in Afghanistan using the MVAR (modified vector autoregressive) approach and the Granger non ...
Hameed MA, Rahman MM, Khanam R.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Indirect Interventions in Civil Wars

open access: yesCzech Journal of International Relations, 2019
Current research on motivational sources of military interventions in civil wars frequently assumes that states intervene due to direct interests in the civil war country.
Kamil Klosek
doaj   +3 more sources

The idea of civil war in thirteenth and fourteenth-century - Byzantium [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2012
This paper discusses thirteenth and fourteenth-century Byzantine perceptions of civil wars, which were a common feature in the late Byzantine period. It investigates how the most important authors of the period understood and defined the idea of civil
Kyriakidis Savvas
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The Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Civil Wars in Byzantium in the Middle of the 14th Century (Stating the Problem)

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2022
Introduction. This work aims to highlight features of the relationship between Church and State in Byzantium in the period from 1341 to 1357, i.e. during the civil wars, through the systematization and typology of source material.
Anastasiya V. Zykova
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Las guerras civiles: consideraciones teóricas desde las Ciencias Sociales

open access: yesAmnis, 2015
Since the Cold War, social scientists started the systematic study of the phenomenon of civil war, but for nearly half a century his analysis was subsumed and partly hidden by the logic of bloc politics.
Eduardo González Calleja
doaj   +1 more source

Religion and African Civil Wars

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2007
This volume contains an introduction and seven case studies by anthropologists, historians, and theologians. The papers were originally presented at a 1999 conference on “Religion and Social Upheaval in Africa” in Denmark. As a result, some of the papers
Robert Launay
doaj   +1 more source

Challenges to Civil War Research : Introduction to Special Issue on Civil War and Conflicts [PDF]

open access: yesJournal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 2009
This Special Issue presents papers related to the topic of civil wars approached by scholars from various fields, including the economic/political science approach, the legal approach, and the historical approach.
Dorte Andersen   +2 more
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Repression or Civil War? [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Economic Review, 2009
Perhaps the crowning achievement of mature democracies is the peaceful acceptance of the ballot box as the primary instrument for deciding who should hold power in society. We do not have to go far back in the history of most democratic states, however, to find a distinct role for political violence. Moreover, many inhabitants of the globe still remain
Timothy Besley, Torsten Persson
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Democratization and Civil War [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
This article examines the impact of civil war on democratization, particularly focusing on whether civil war provides an opportunity for institutional reform. We investigate the impact of war termination in general, along with prolonged violence, rebel victory and international intervention on democratization.
Armey, Laura E., McNab, Robert M.
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Ambiguity and Methodological Transparency in the Study of Civil War : An Answer to Themner's 'Lingering Command Structures' in Liberia

open access: yes, 2022
Researchers who study civil wars and other armed conflicts are bound to face ambiguities. This article continues the discussion about research brokers in conflict zones that started in a 2019 special issue of Civil Wars and scrutinises the finding that ...
Käihkö, Ilmari,
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