Democratic Jihad ? Military intervention and democracy [PDF]
Democracies rarely if ever fight one another, but they participate in wars as frequently as autocracies. They tend to win the wars in which they participate.
Christiansen, Lene Siljeholm +2 more
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Countries which are victims of terrorism harden their attitudes toward accepting asylum seekers [PDF]
, 2014 What impact does terrorism have on the acceptance of asylum seekers in European countries? Based on a study of 19 European countries between 1980 and 2007, Nazli Avdan writes that states which experience terrorism on their own soil or against their own ...
Avdan, Nazli
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Predicting violence within genocides: meso-level evidence from Rwanda [PDF]
, 2012 Can we predict when and where violence will break out within cases of genocide? Given often weak political will to respond, knowing where to strategically prioritize limited resources is valuable information for international decision makers ...
McDoom, Omar Shahabudin
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Israel s national identity under the Postzionist critical perspective: an Introduction [PDF]
, 2013 Este artículo trata el tema de la producción intelectual del postsionismo por parte de académicos e intelectuales israelíes y otros. El análisis de los orígenes del Israel moderno, la guerra de 1948 y el conflicto palestino-israelí constituyen el eje ...
Senkman, Leonardo
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Explainable models for forecasting the emergence of political instability. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Baillie E +5 more
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Do international human rights treaties improve respect for human rights? [PDF]
After the non-binding Universal Declaration of Human Rights, many global and regional human rights treaties have been concluded. Critics argue that these are unlikely to have made any actual difference in reality.
Eric Neumayer
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Scientific necessity and political utility: A comparison of data on violent conflicts [PDF]
, 2001 Data making in the social sciences in general, data collection on interstate and intrastate violence in particular, is not only a necessity for the growth of knowledge but also potentially useful for practice.
Chojnacki, Sven, Eberwein, Wolf-Dieter
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Killing Them to Save Us’: Lessons from Politicide for Preventing and Countering Terrorism [PDF]
, 2020 This chapter reviews and extends the analysis of mass political murder advanced by Chirot and McCauley, then applies this analysis to understanding and countering terrorism.
McCauley, Clark R.
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The capacity and willingness to act: Two constitutive elements of strategy design [PDF]
, 1999 Given the amount of suffering in the world, do we have the capacity to provide the necessary humanitarian assistance? Assuming that this is the case: are both the governments and the populations willing to carry that burden in the future as they have ...
Chojnacki, Sven, Eberwein, Wolf-Dieter
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Lock, Stock, and Barrel: A Comprehensive Assessment of the Determinants of Terror [PDF]
We assess the robustness of previous findings on the determinants of terrorism. Using extreme bound analysis, the three most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on the three most commonly analyzed aspects of terrorist activity, i.e., location,
Martin Gassebner, Simon Luechinger
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