Search Results - subject:"Civil wars"

Ethnic polarization and the duration of civil wars

Montalvo, Jose; Reynal-Querol, Marta - In: Economics of Governance 11 (2010) 2, pp. 123-143

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Democratization and civil war: Empirical evidence

Cederman, Lars-Erik; Hug, Simon; Krebs, Lutz F. - In: Journal of Peace Research 47 (2010) 4, pp. 377-394

literature, but it remains controversial with respect to both interstate and civil wars. Current empirical research continues to … will be needed to confirm these results in terms of the relevant causal mechanisms, especially in ethno-nationalist civil … wars. …

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Fighting against Malaria: Prevent wars while waiting for the "miraculous" vaccine

Montalvo, José Garcia; Reynal-Querol, Marta - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2001

wars on the incidence of malaria in the refugee-receiving countries. Using civil wars as an instrumental variable we show … average 13% of the cases of malaria reported by the WHO are caused by forced migration as a consequence of civil wars. … during the 80's and part of the 90's its incidence increased. In this paper we explore the influence of refugees from civil …

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Who Brings Which Peace?

Svensson, Isak - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 53 (2009) 3, pp. 446-469

This study examines the effect of biased versus neutral mediation on the content of peace agreements. The author argues that neutral mediators, who are engaged primarily because of their interest to end the war, will have incentives to hasten the reaching of an agreement to the expense of its...

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Ethno-Nationalist Dyads and Civil War

Cederman, Lars-Erik; Buhaug, Halvard; Rød, Jan Ketil - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 53 (2009) 4, pp. 496-525

that while the results for demographic group strength hold for all ethnic civil wars, the geographic factors apply for …

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Nonproportional Hazards and Event History Analysis in International Relations

Box-Steffensmeier, Janet M.; Reiter, Dan; Zorn, Christopher - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 47 (2003) 1, pp. 33-53

peace, civil wars, and alliances. Results show that NPH analysis is a useful method for testing new hypotheses, as well as …

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Civil wars and economic growth: A regional comparison

Murdoch, James; Sandler, Todd - In: Defence and Peace Economics 13 (2002) 6, pp. 451-464

The paper examines the impact of civil wars on income per-capita growth at home and in neighbors for four regional … in Asia and Latin America. Moreover, Africa demonstrates a greater ability to recover from the adverse effects of civil … wars than the other regions tested. …

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AID, Policy and Peace: Reducing the risks of civil conflict

Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - In: Defence and Peace Economics 13 (2002) 6, pp. 435-450

We analyze theoretically and empirically the effects of economic policy and the receipt of foreign aid on the risk of civil war. We find that aid and policy do not have direct effects upon conflict risk. However, both directly affect the growth rate and the extent of dependence upon primary...

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A Theory of Post-Civil War Democratization

Wantchekon, Leonard; Neeman, Zvika - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 14 (2002) 4, pp. 439-464

We model the transition from a chaotic status quo to a more orderly political regime as a two-stage game involving two warring factions and the citizens. The warring factions move first and decide the form of government by (1) inviting an external arbitrator, (2) choosing the people as...

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The future challenges of NATO: An economic viewpoint

Sandler, Todd - In: Defence and Peace Economics 8 (1997) 4, pp. 319-353

contingencies include ethnic-based civil wars in Europe, transnational terrorism, rogue states, increased world income inequality …

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