conflict can in turn undermine the peace-making effect of intergroup arrangements. Different subgroup identity constellations …Institutions can contribute to regulating interethnic conflict; however, in many cases they fail to bring about lasting … heterogeneity is often obscured by overarching collective ethnic identities that are fostered by interethnic conflict. However, when …

reflects a dislocation of U.S. identity as the vanguard of liberal-democratic capitalism. This implicates changes in regard to … how “liberal” identity in the U.S. is constructed in relation to the role attributed to “illiberal” China, which in turn …

It has long been argued that identity matters in international relations. Yet, how identity impacts enmity and conflict … among states remains the subject of debate. The existing literature asserts that differences in identity can be a source of … conflict, whereas convergence and similarity lead to cooperation. Nevertheless, empirical evidence from the Middle East has …

’Ivoire. It seeks to explain the differences in the level of violence over time by focusing on religion as an identity marker and …

, institutions can work on ethnic conflict by either accommodating (“consociationalists”) or denying (“integrationists”) ethnicity in … mostly inconclusive. The following questions remain open: a) Is politicized ethnicity really a conflict risk? b) What impact … conflict risks? …

, social science research has inadequately addressed the question of how and to what extent religion matters for conflict in … Africa. This paper presents an innovative data inventory on religion and violent conflict in all sub-Saharan countries for … for in conflict in Africa. Moreover, results show the multidimensionality (e.g. armed conflicts with religious …