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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"Utopian in the right sense": The Responsibility to Protect and the Logical Necessity of Reform [PDF]
, 2017 In this article I argue that the claims made about the efficacy of the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) echo the pejorative conceptions of “utopianism” advanced by E. H.
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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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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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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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Judicial Practice Makes Perfect: Explaining Asylum Recognition in the European Union [PDF]
, 2015 Vast disparities in asylum recognition rates have persisted in the European Union despite legislative efforts to standardize the asylum determination process.
Plach,, Casey, \u2715
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Measure for measure: how well do we measure micro-level conflict intensity?. [PDF]
Rich measures of micro-level violent conflict intensity are key for successfully providing insight into the legacy of civil war.Yet, the debate on how exactly conflict intensity should be measured has just started.
Verpoorten, Marijke
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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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The Changing Relationship between the Justice and Development Party and the Kurds in Turkey [PDF]
, 2014 This thesis investigates the circumstances surrounding two periods of reforms concerning the Kurds in Turkey to determine possible reasons for the introduction of reforms in 2013.
Pantich, Alexander D.
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