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The frequency of wars [PDF]

, 2011
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, MARK HARRISON, Wolf, Nikolaus, NIKOLAUS WOLF   +3 more
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Civil war theory testing: How greed, horizontal inequalities, and institutions explain the Yemeni civil war between 2004 and 2009?

Köz-gazdaság, 2019
This article applies a comparative design to test the explanatory power of formal quantitative models of civil war. It examines the grievance, horizontal inequalities, and institutional models of civil war through the case study of the Yemeni civil war ...
Júlia Palik
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The Canadian Civil Wars of 1837–1838

The London Journal of Canadian Studies, 2020
Canadian historians have traditionally stressed that the rebellions of 1837 and 1838 in Upper and Lower Canada were revolts against British imperial authority.
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Ethnic polarization and the duration of civil wars [PDF]

The authors analyze the relationship between ethnic polarization and the duration of civil wars. Several recent papers have argued that the uncertainty about the relative power of the contenders in a war will tend to increase its duration.
Reynal-Querol, Marta, Montalvo, Jose G.
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Effect of the Irish Civil War 1922-1923 on suicide rates in Ireland: a retrospective investigation of the archives of the registrar-general for Saorstát Éireann

Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health, 2018
Introduction: Emile Durkheim differentiated between two types of wars: National and Civil Wars in terms of effect on suicide mortality. This study investigates Durkheim’s assertion by examining the effect of Irish Civil War on the 1882-1928 suicide rates
Mugtaba Osman, Andrew C Parnell, MacDara McCauley   +2 more
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Asymmetric information in the civil wars, the Colombian case [PDF]

The aim of this paper is to interpret the relationships between information networks and the armed conflict in Colombia. Over a period of paramilitary violence networks of informants were used with a strategic purpose.
Estrada, Fernando
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The Role of Saudi Arabia and Egypt in the Yemeni Civil Wars

Journal of Central and Eastern European African Studies
The Arabian Peninsula was one of the defining regions of world politics in the last century and still is today. The states of the region have always tried to extend their influence on the peninsula, which has caused conflicts in several cases.
Máté Percze
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The causes of civil war [PDF]

The dominant hypothesis in the literature that studies conflict is that poverty is the main cause of civil wars. The authors instead analyze the effect of institutions on civil war, controlling for income per capita.
Reynal-Querol, Marta, Djankov, Simeon
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Choosing the Lesser Evil: Tribal Alignments in Civil Wars

This dissertation develops a novel theory of tribal alignments in civil wars, focusing on both their initial formation and subsequent realignment. Tribes are essential stakeholders in many societies that experience civil wars, including Iraq, Afghanistan,
Busra Nur Ozguler Aktel
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Perpetrators of Genocide: An Explanatory Model of Extraordinary Human Evil

Journal of Hate Studies, 2002
According to Jewish-Christian tradition, the first time that death appeared in the world, it was murder. Cain slew Abel. “Two men,” says Elie Wiesel, and “one of them became a killer.”1 Throughout human history, social conflict is ubiquitous.
James Waller
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